2 USC 1 - Sec. 1. Time for election of Senators
2 USC - U.S. Code - Title 2: The Congress (January 2004)
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At the regular election held in any State next preceding the expiration of the term for which any Senator was elected to represent such State in Congress, at which election a Representative to Congress is regularly by law to be chosen, a United States Senator from said State shall be elected by the people thereof for the term commencing on the 3d day of January next thereafter.
Amendments
1934 - Act June 5, 1934, substituted "3d day of January" for "fourth day of March". CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS The first section of Amendment XX to the Constitution provides in part: "* * * the terms of Senators and Representatives [shall end] at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin." Time for election of Senators, see Const.
Art. I, Sec. 4, cl. 1. Vacancies in the Senate, see Const.
Amend. XVII.
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