§ 505. Sale of duplicate plates

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. 1968

   Pub. L. 90–620 · 82 Stat. 1238

   Enacted · 44 U.S.C. § 505

   Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1244

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1244

2. 1976

   Pub. L. 94–553 § 105(a)(1) · 90 Stat. 2541

   Struck · 44 U.S.C. § 505

   Pub. L. 94–553 struck out provision that a publication could not be copyrighted if it was reprinted from additional or duplicate plates purchased from the Government from which Government publications had been printed or if it was reprinted from other Government publications

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 94–553 struck out provision that a publication could not be copyrighted if it was reprinted from additional or duplicate plates purchased from the Government from which Government publications had been printed or if it was reprinted from other Government publications.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (1) Section 505 of title 44 is amended to read as follows: “§ 505. Sale of duplicate plates “The Public Printer shall sell, under regulations of the Joint Committee on Printing to persons who may apply, additional or duplicate stereotype or electrotype plates from which a Government publication is printed, at a price not to exceed the cost of composition, the metal, and making to the Government, plus 10 per centum, and the full amount of the price shall be paid when the order is filed.”.

   Effective date note
   Amendment by Pub. L. 94–553 effective Jan. 1, 1978, see section 102 of Pub. L. 94–553, set out as an Effective Date note preceding section 101 of Title 17, Copyrights.

3. 2014

   Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2015

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

   Substituted · 44 U.S.C. § 505

   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

2 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial