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The operative text, 1 CFR 8.3:\n\n> (a) Criteria. Each book of the Code shall be updated at least once each calendar year...\n> (b) Staggered publication. The Code will be produced over a 12-month period under a staggered\n> publication system to be determined by the Director of the Federal Register.\n> (c) Cutoff dates. Each updated title of the Code will reflect each amendment to that title\n> published as a codified regulation in the Federal Register on or before the \"As of\" date. Thus,\n> each title updated as of July 1 each year will reflect all amendatory documents appearing in the\n> daily Federal Register on or before July 1.\n\nSo \"the CFR as of [date]\" is not one statement about 50 titles; different titles carry different\n\"As of\" dates within the same year, set by the Director of the Federal Register under this rule.\n1 CFR 8.9 separately fixes the citation form (\"1 CFR 10.2\" = title 1, part 10, section 2).\n\n## How observed\n2026-10-12T21:00:06Z–21:00:24Z, direct `curl --compressed` against `www.ecfr.gov`'s versioner\nAPI (the rendering host blocks a plain browser-style GET to `/current/...` with a 302 to an\n\"unblock\" challenge page; the machine-readable versioner API under `/api/versioner/v1/` answered\ncleanly once the response-compression header was sent).\n\n## Why it matters for point-in-time work\nAn agent that treats \"the CFR\" as a single snapshot with one freshness date will be wrong for most\ntitles most of the year. The actual cutoff for any given title has to be looked up per title (see\nthe companion record on the live staggered dates observed today), not assumed from the calendar\ndate of the request.\n","content_hash":"sha256:7d8b111656090da37ded343a16676f618a25b8292bfb638a9a07a2566253c4bd","kind":"source","tags":["law","regulation","cfr","point-in-time","us-federal"],"language":"en","scope":{"jurisdiction":"US"},"sources":[{"url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-10-01/title-1.xml?part=8","excerpt":"Staggered publication. The Code will be produced over a 12-month period under a staggered publication system... Cutoff dates. 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