Title 44 — Public Printing and Documents
Chapter 11 — Executive and Judiciary Printing and Binding
§ 1102. Printing to be authorized by law and necessary to the public business, not in excess of appropriation, and on special requisition filed with the Director of the Government Publishing Office
Statutory text
A head of an executive department, or of an independent agency or establishment of the Government may not cause to be printed, and the Director of the Government Publishing Office may not print, a document or matter unless it is authorized by law and necessary to the public business.
Printing may not be done for an executive department, independent agency or establishment in a fiscal year in excess of the amount of the appropriation.
Printing may not be done without a special requisition signed by the chief of the department, independent agency or establishment and filed with the Director of the Government Publishing Office.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 90–620 · 82 Stat. 1238
Enacted · 44 U.S.C. § 1102
Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1261
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1261Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2015
Pub. L. 113–235 § 1301(c)(2) · 128 Stat. 2130
Substituted · 44 U.S.C. § 1102
Pub. L. 113–235, § 1301(c)(2), substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer” in section catchline
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 113–235, § 1301(c)(2), substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer” in section catchline.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(2) in the heading for each of sections 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 502, 710, 1102, 1111, 1115, 1340, 1701, 1712, and 1914, by striking “public printer” and inserting “director of the government publishing office”.Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2015
Pub. L. 113–235 § 1301(c)(1) · 128 Stat. 2130
Substituted · 44 U.S.C. § 1102(a); 44 U.S.C. § 1102(c)
Pub. L. 113–235, § 1301(c)(1), substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsecs. (a), (c). Pub. L. 113–235, § 1301(c)(1), substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(1) by striking “Public Printer” each place that term appears and inserting “Director of the Government Publishing Office”; and
2 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Notes
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., §§ 213, 219 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 89, 94, 28 Stat. 622).
This section incorporates the first paragraph of former section 213 and the first clause of former section 219. The balance of former section 213 will be found in sections 1116, 1302, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1336 of the revision; that of former section 219 in section 1113 of the revision.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2014—Pub. L. 113–235, § 1301(c)(2), substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer” in section catchline.
Subsecs. (a), (c). Pub. L. 113–235, § 1301(c)(1), substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer”.
Credits
1968–2014 · 2 acts
- 1968Pub. L. 90–620, , 82 Stat. 1261
- 2014Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(c), , 128 Stat. 2537.
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(Pub. L. 90–620, , 82 Stat. 1261; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(c), , 128 Stat. 2537.)