31 U.S.C. § 5101
Decimal system
United States · Title 31 — MONEY AND FINANCE · Status: effective
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- 31 U.S.C. § 5101, Decimal system, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/467754
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United States money is expressed in dollars, dimes or tenths, cents or hundreths,11 So in original. Probably should be “hundredths,”. and mills or thousandths. A dime is a tenth of a dollar, a cent is a hundredth of a dollar, and a mill is a thousandth of a dollar.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- A bill to revise, codify, and enact without substantive change certain general and permanent laws, related to money and finance, as title 31, United States Code, "Money and Finance".House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally