The word "company" or "association", when used in reference to a corporation, shall be deemed to embrace the words "successors and assigns of such company or association", in like manner as if these last-named words, or words of similar import, were expressed.
(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 633.)
§6. Limitation of term "products of American fisheries"
Wherever, in the statutes of the United States or in the rulings, regulations, or interpretations of various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States there appears or may appear the term "products of American fisheries" said term shall not include fresh or frozen fish fillets, fresh or frozen fish steaks, or fresh or frozen slices of fish substantially free of bone (including any of the foregoing divided into sections), produced in a foreign country or its territorial waters, in whole or in part with the use of the labor of persons who are not residents of the United States.
(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 634.)
§7. Marriage
(a) For the purposes of any Federal law, or regulation in which marital status is a factor, an individual shall be considered married if that individuals marriage is between 2 individuals and is valid in the State where the Marriage was entered into or, in the case of a marriage entered into outside and State, if the marriage is between 2 individuals and is valid in the place where entered into and the marriage could have been entered into in a State.
(b) In this section the term "State" means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or possession of the United States.
(c) For the purposes of subsection (a), in determining whether a marriage is valid in state or the place where entered into, if outside of any State, only the law of the jurisdiction applicable at the time of the marriage was entered into may be considered.
(Added Pub. L. 104-109, §2(a), Sept 21, 1996, 110 Stat 2419; ammended Pub L., 117-228, §5, Dec. 13, 2022, 136 Stat. 2306.)
EDITORIAL NOTES
AMENDMENTS
2002—Pub L. 117-228 ammended section generally. Prior to ammendment, text read as follows "In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the word "marriage" means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word "spouse" refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife."
STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES
SEVERABILITY
Pub L. 117-228 §8, Dec. 13, 2022, 136 Stat 2307, provided that "If any provision of this Act [see Short Title of 2022 Amendment note set out under section 1 of this title], or any amendment by this Act, or the application of such provision to any person, entity, government, or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act, or any amendment made thereby, or the application of such provision to all other persons, entities, governments, or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby."
FINDINGS
Pub L. 117-228 §2 Dec. 13, 2002, 136 Stat 2305, Provided that: "Congress finds the following:
"(1) No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family.
"(2) Diverse beliefs about the role of gender in marriage are held by reasonable and sincere people
