Title 44 — Public Printing and Documents
Chapter 5 — Production and Procurement of Printing and Binding
§ 504. Direct purchase of printing, binding, and blank-book work by Government agencies
Statutory text
The Joint Committee on Printing may permit the Director of the Government Publishing Office to authorize an executive department, independent office, or establishment of the Government to purchase direct for its use such printing, binding, and blank-book work, otherwise authorized by law, as the Government Publishing Office is not able or suitably equipped to execute or as may be more economically or in the better interest of the Government executed elsewhere.
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. § 504
Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1243
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1243Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2015
Pub. L. 113–235 § 1301(c)(1) · 128 Stat. 2130
Substituted · 44 U.S.C. § 504
Pub. L. 113–235, § 1301(c)(1), substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
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
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Notes
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 14 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 12, 28 Stat. 602; July 8, 1935, ch. 374, § 1, 49 Stat. 475; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 654, § 3(10), 65 Stat. 708).
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2014—Pub. L. 113–235, § 1301(c)(1), substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“Government Publishing Office” substituted for “Government Printing Office” in 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
- 1968Pub. L. 90–620, , 82 Stat. 1243
- 2014Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(b), (c)(1), , 128 Stat. 2537.
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(Pub. L. 90–620, , 82 Stat. 1243; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(b), (c)(1), , 128 Stat. 2537.)