38 U.S.C. § 314
Section 314 · Central Office
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 26 court decisions — leading case Rose v. Rose (1987)
Most recently applied in Guillory v. Dept. Of Veterans Affairs (January 2012)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The Central Office of the Department shall be in the District of Columbia.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Prior Provisions
Prior section 314 was renumbered section 1114 of this title.
Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 230(a) of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 102–83, §2(a).