You believe there may be one or more statutes that govern the issues you are researching. Obviously, if you are dealing with an Indiana law problem, you will not find Indiana statutes in Kansas statutory materials, and vice versa. Determine the jurisdiction involved in your problem, and then go to the statutory materials for that jurisdiction. When passed, any one statute may deal with a variety of subjects.
Most problems deal with the law currently in force.
Now, go to the code's main volumes, locating your material under title and section numbers given in the index. A popular name table is arranged A through Z by popular name. Now, look in the code under the title and section numbers given. After finding a reference in the indexes or tables, go to the title and section numbers in the main portion of the code set. This is the actual statutory language as enacted by the legislature.