2 USC 8: Vacancies
Text contains those laws in effect on January 4, 1995
From Title 2-THE CONGRESSCHAPTER 1-ELECTION OF SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES
§8. Vacancies
The time for holding elections in any State, District, or Territory for a Representative or Delegate to fill a vacancy, whether such vacancy is caused by a failure to elect at the time prescribed by law, or by the death, resignation, or incapacity of a person elected, may be prescribed by the laws of the several States and Territories respectively.
(R.S. §26.)
Codification
R.S. §26 derived from act Feb. 2, 1872, ch. 11, §4,
Constitutional Provisions
Vacancies in the House of Representatives, see Const. Art. I, §2, cl. 4.