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Title 44 — Public Printing and Documents

Chapter 19 — Depository Library Program

§ 1902. Availability of Government publications through Superintendent of Documents; lists of publications not ordered from Government Publishing Office

Statutory text

Government publications, except those determined by their issuing components to be required for official use only or for strictly administrative or operational purposes which have no public interest or educational value and publications classified for reasons of national security, shall be made available to depository libraries through the facilities of the Superintendent of Documents for public information. Each component of the Government shall furnish the Superintendent of Documents a list of such publications it issued during the previous month, that were obtained from sources other than 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.

  1. Pub. L. 90–620 · 82 Stat. 1238

    Enacted · 44 U.S.C. § 1902

    Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1283

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1283

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

Notes

Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 81b (Pub. L. 87–579, § 1, , 76 Stat. 352).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Government Publishing Office” substituted for “Government Printing Office” in section catchline and text on authority of section 1301(b) of Pub. L. 113–235, set out as a note preceding section 301 of this title.

Credits

1968–2014 · 2 acts
  1. 1968Pub. L. 90–620, , 82 Stat. 1283
  2. 2014Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(b), , 128 Stat. 2537.
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(Pub. L. 90–620, , 82 Stat. 1283; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(b), , 128 Stat. 2537.)

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