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Title 44 — Public Printing and Documents

Chapter 17 — Distribution and Sale of Public Documents

§ 1706. Printing and sale of extra copies of documents

Statutory text

The Director of the Government Publishing Office shall furnish to applicants giving notice before the matter is put to press, not exceeding two hundred and fifty to any one applicant, copies of bills, reports, and documents. The applicants shall pay in advance the price of the printing. The printing of these copies for private parties may not interfere with the printing for the Government.

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. § 1706

    Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1279

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1279

  2. Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2015

    Pub. L. 113–235 div. H title I § 1301(c)(1) · 128 Stat. 2130

    Substituted · 44 U.S.C. § 1706

    Pub. L. 113–235 substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 113–235 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

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Notes

Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 114 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 42, 28 Stat. 607; June 30, 1932, ch. 314, § 307, 47 Stat. 409).

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2014—Pub. L. 113–235 substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer”.

Credits

1968–2014 · 2 acts
  1. 1968Pub. L. 90–620, , 82 Stat. 1279
  2. 2014Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(c)(1), , 128 Stat. 2537.
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(Pub. L. 90–620, , 82 Stat. 1279; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(c)(1), , 128 Stat. 2537.)

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