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Alaska's Right to Ivory Sales and Tradition Act › Section 1

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Section 1 · Sec. 1 ·

What this chapter is about

This part gives the law two short names. One is long. One is just the first letters of it.

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The two names the Act gives itself

The document says “may be cited as”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 1 in the PDF
What the document says

“This Act may be cited as the "Alaska's Right to Ivory Sales and Tradition Act" or the "ARTIST Act".”

To amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to protect the cultural practices and livelihoods of producers of Alaska Native handicrafts and marine mammal ivory products, and for other purposes, Sec. 1

The Act names itself twice, and either name may be used. The second is drawn from the first: the letters of ARTIST are the initials of Alaska's Right to Ivory Sales and Tradition. The section carries no other provision.

What the document actually says

“This Act may be cited as the "Alaska's Right to Ivory Sales and Tradition Act" or the "ARTIST Act".”

To amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to protect the cultural practices and livelihoods of producers of Alaska Native handicrafts and marine mammal ivory products, and for other purposes, Sec. 1
That sentence, in plain words

This law has two short names. One is the long name. The other is the word ARTIST.

What this is about

A law often gives itself a short name. Then people can talk about it without saying the whole long title. Here the letters in ARTIST are the first letters of the other name. This part does that and nothing more.

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What This Page Covers, and What It Leaves Out

The naming provision, which is the whole of the section.

Nothing. The section carries only the two short titles. The approval line and the legislative history the Government Publishing Office prints after the last section are held out of the indexed text.

The section says what the Act may be called. It does not say what the Act does.