Title 44 — Public Printing and Documents
Chapter 5 — Production and Procurement of Printing and Binding
§ 516. Liability of defaulting contractor
Statutory text
Upon failure to furnish paper, a contractor and his sureties shall be responsible for any increase of cost to the Government in procuring a supply of the paper consequent upon his default. The Director of the Government Publishing Office shall report every default, with a full statement of all the facts in the case, to the General Counsel for the Department of the Treasury, who shall prosecute the defaulting contractor and his sureties upon their bond in the district court of the United States in the district in which the defaulting contractor resides.
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. § 516
Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1245
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1245Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2015
Pub. L. 113–235 div. H title I § 1301(c)(1) · 128 Stat. 2130
Substituted · 44 U.S.C. § 516
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., § 12 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 10, 28 Stat. 602; Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, § 291, 36 Stat. 1167; May 10, 1934, ch. 277, § 512(b), 48 Stat. 759).
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2014—Pub. L. 113–235 substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer”.
Credits
1968–2014 · 2 acts
- 1968Pub. L. 90–620, , 82 Stat. 1245
- 2014Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(c)(1), , 128 Stat. 2537.
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(Pub. L. 90–620, , 82 Stat. 1245; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(c)(1), , 128 Stat. 2537.)