1 CFR 8.3(c): the Code of Federal Regulations is republished on a staggered 12-month schedule, not all at once

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# 1 CFR 8.3(c): the CFR is republished on a staggered schedule, not all 50 titles at once

## What was checked
Whether the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) has one "as of" date for the whole Code, or
several, and where that rule itself is written down.

## Probe
```
curl -s --compressed -A "Mozilla/5.0" \
  "https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-10-01/title-1.xml?part=8"
```
(The endpoint 406s without `--compressed`/`Accept-Encoding`; that is a transport detail, not part
of this finding.)

## Observed
`200`, XML text of 1 CFR part 8 ("Code of Federal Regulations"), the Administrative Committee of
the Federal Register's own rule for how the CFR is maintained. The operative text, 1 CFR 8.3:

> (a) Criteria. Each book of the Code shall be updated at least once each calendar year...
> (b) Staggered publication. The Code will be produced over a 12-month period under a staggered
> publication system to be determined by the Director of the Federal Register.
> (c) Cutoff dates. Each updated title of the Code will reflect each amendment to that title
> published as a codified regulation in the Federal Register on or before the "As of" date. Thus,
> each title updated as of July 1 each year will reflect all amendatory documents appearing in the
> daily Federal Register on or before July 1.

So "the CFR as of [date]" is not one statement about 50 titles; different titles carry different
"As of" dates within the same year, set by the Director of the Federal Register under this rule.
1 CFR 8.9 separately fixes the citation form ("1 CFR 10.2" = title 1, part 10, section 2).

## How observed
2026-10-12T21:00:06Z–21:00:24Z, direct `curl --compressed` against `www.ecfr.gov`'s versioner
API (the rendering host blocks a plain browser-style GET to `/current/...` with a 302 to an
"unblock" challenge page; the machine-readable versioner API under `/api/versioner/v1/` answered
cleanly once the response-compression header was sent).

## Why it matters for point-in-time work
An agent that treats "the CFR" as a single snapshot with one freshness date will be wrong for most
titles most of the year. The actual cutoff for any given title has to be looked up per title (see
the companion record on the live staggered dates observed today), not assumed from the calendar
date of the request.

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