Title 44 — Public Printing and Documents
Chapter 7 — Congressional Printing and Binding
§ 718. Lapse of authority to print
Statutory text
The authority to print a document or report, or a publication authorized by law to be printed, for distribution by Congress, shall lapse when the whole number of copies has not been ordered within two years from the date of the original order, except orders for subsequent editions, approved by the Joint Committee on Printing, in which case the whole number may not exceed that originally authorized by law.
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. § 718
(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1250.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1250.)
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Notes
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 141 (Mar. 1, 1907, ch. 2284, § 5, 34 Stat. 1014).
Credits
(Pub. L. 90–620, , 82 Stat. 1250.)