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Title 44 — Public Printing and Documents

Chapter 11 — Executive and Judiciary Printing and Binding

§ 1119. Government publications as public property

Statutory text

Government publications of a permanent nature furnished by authority of law to officers other than Members of Congress of the United States Government, for their official use, shall be stamped “Property of the United States Government,” and shall be preserved by them and delivered to their successors in office as a part of the property of the 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.

  1. Pub. L. 90–620 · 82 Stat. 1238

    Enacted · 44 U.S.C. § 1119

    (Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1264.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1264.)

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Notes

Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 92 (part) (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 74, 28 Stat. 620; June 20, 1936, ch. 630, title VII, § 11, 49 Stat. 1552; , Pub. L. 87–679, § 8, 76 Stat. 355).

This section incorporates only the first sentence of former section 92. The balance will be found in section 1911 of the revision.

Credits

(Pub. L. 90–620, , 82 Stat. 1264.)

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