How many laws are in the US Code?

It depends on what you consider a law. The U.S. Code has 50 Titles,
each of which deals with a separate subject. For example, Title 2
deals with Congress, Title 50 deals with War and National Defense, and
so on. Each Title has several Chapters, which spell out laws in
further detail. There are a total of 50 Titles, and the number of
Chapters in each Title varies. Within each Chapter, there are
different Sections, and each Section is broken into an outline (so you
could have Section 412a, 412b, 412b.1.a, and so forth). Also,
sometimes the Chapters are broken into parts themselves, e.g. Chapter
17a or Chapter 17b.

You can view a listing of all Titles in the U.S. Code at

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/#TITLES

By clicking on any particular title, you can see the Chapters
contained in it.

Counting the number of laws is complicated not just by the fact that
Titles have varying numbers of Chapters. Some Titles and Chapters have
been repealed (for example, Chapter 34, which dealt with the Navy).

My advice would be to clarify what you mean by a law. Would you
consider two Sections as separate laws, for example? Two Chapters?

If you want a Google Researcher to go to a site with the U.S. Code and
count how many Chapters are in each Title and add them up, subtract
the ones that got repealed, etc., you'll probably have to pay them
more than $2 since it's rather time consuming. I'm not a Researcher
yet so I can't, regardless. :)

Good luck and I hope you get your answer.

I second the comment by rmg-ga -- it's really very difficult to make a
count of the number of laws, since so many "new" laws are simply
modifiying existing law.  For what it's worth, though, Congress has
pretty consistently been passing about 300 new laws a year at least as
far back as the 1970's.

responding to rmg-ga..."you'll probably have to pay them more than $2
since it's rather time consuming."

I've also been trying to find out how many federal laws there are...
Is there a way for people to pool $2 contributions together for one
peice of research?