§ 5101.
United States money is expressed in dollars, dimes or tenths, cents or hundreths,
1
So in original. Probably should be “hundredths,”.
and mills or thousandths. A dime is a tenth of a dollar, a cent is a hundredth of a dollar, and a mill is a thousandth of a dollar.
([Pub. L. 97–258], Sept. 13, 1982, [96 Stat. 980].)