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Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 1, Title 44 - PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contains | Sections 101 to 4104 |
Date | 2013 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 16, 2014 |
Positive Law | Yes |
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Chapter 1 - JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING (§§ 101 - 103)
- Chapter 3 - GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE (§§ 301 - 318)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 301 - Public Printer: appointment
- Section 302 - Deputy Public Printer: appointment; duties
- Section 303 - Public Printer and Deputy Public Printer: pay
- Section 304 - Public Printer: vacancy in office
- Section 305 - Public Printer: employees; pay
- Section 306 - Public Printer: employment of skilled workmen; trial of skill
- Section 307 - Public Printer: night work
- Section 308 - Disbursing officer; deputy disbursing officer; certifying officers and employees
- Section 309 - Revolving fund for operation and maintenance of Government Printing Office: capitalization; reimbursements and credits; accounting and budgeting; reports
- Section 310 - Payments for printing, binding, blank paper, and supplies
- Section 311 - Purchases exempt from subtitle I of title 40 and division C (except sections 3302, 3501(b), 3509, 3906, 4710, and 4711) of subtitle I of title 41; contract negotiation authority; small purchase threshold
- Section 312 - Machinery, material, equipment, or supplies from other Government agencies
- Section 313 - Examining boards: paper; bindery materials; machinery
- Section 314 - Inks, glues, and other supplies furnished to other Government agencies: payment
- Section 315 - Branches of Government Printing Office; limitations
- Section 316 - Detail of employees of Government Printing Office to other Government establishments
- Section 317 - Special policemen
- Section 318 - Transfer of surplus property; acceptance of voluntary services
- Chapter 5 - PRODUCTION AND PROCUREMENT OF PRINTING AND BINDING (§§ 501 - 517)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 501 - Government printing, binding, and blank-book work to be done at Government Printing Office
- Section 502 - Procurement of printing, binding, and blank-book work by Public Printer
- Section 503 - Printing in veterans' hospitals
- Section 504 - Direct purchase of printing, binding, and blank-book work by Government agencies
- Section 505 - Sale of duplicate plates
- Section 506 - Time for printing documents or reports which include illustrations or maps
- Section 507 - Orders for printing to be acted upon within one year
- Section 508 - Annual estimates of quantity of paper required for public printing and binding
- Section 509 - Standards of paper; advertisements for proposals; samples
- Section 510 - Specifications in advertisements for paper
- Section 511 - Opening bids; bonds
- Section 512 - Approval of paper contracts; time for performance; bonds
- Section 513 - Comparison of paper and envelopes with standard quality
- Section 514 - Determination of quality of paper
- Section 515 - Default of contractor; new contracts and purchase in open market
- Section 516 - Liability of defaulting contractor
- Section 517 - Purchase of paper in open market
- Chapter 7 - CONGRESSIONAL PRINTING AND BINDING (§§ 701 - 741)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 701 - "Usual number" of documents and reports; distribution of House and Senate documents and reports; binding; reports on private bills; number of copies printed; distribution
- Section 702 - Extra copies of documents and reports
- Section 703 - Printing extra copies
- Section 704 - Reprinting bills, laws, and reports from committees not exceeding fifty pages
- Section 705 - Duplicate orders to print
- Section 706 - Bills and resolutions: number and distribution
- Section 707 - Bills and resolutions: style and form
- Section 708 - Bills and resolutions: binding sets for Congress
- Section 709 - Public and private laws, postal conventions, and treaties
- Section 710 - Copies of Acts furnished to Public Printer
- Section 711 - Printing Acts, joint resolutions, and treaties
- Section 712 - Printing of postal conventions
- Section 713 - Journals of Houses of Congress
- Section 714 - Printing documents for Congress in two or more editions; printing of full number and allotment of full quota
- Section 715 - Senate and House documents and reports for Department of State
- Section 716 - Printing of documents not provided for by law
- Section 717 - Appropriation chargeable for printing of document or report by order of Congress
- Section 718 - Lapse of authority to print
- Section 719 - Classification and numbering of publications ordered printed by Congress; designation of publications of departments; printing of committee hearings
- Section 720 - Senate and House Manuals
- Section 721 - Congressional Directory
- Section 722 - Congressional Directory: sale
- Section 723 - Memorial addresses: preparation; distribution
- Section 724 - Memorial addresses: illustrations
- Section 725 - Statement of appropriations; "usual number"
- Section 726 - Printing for committees of Congress
- Section 727 - Committee reports: indexing and binding
- Section 728 - United States Statutes at Large: distribution
- Section 729 - United States Statutes at Large: references in margins
- Section 730 - Distribution of documents to Members of Congress
- Section 731 - Allotments of public documents printed after expiration of terms of Members of Congress; rights of retiring Members to documents
- Section 732 - Time for distribution of documents by Members of Congress extended
- Section 733 - Documents and reports ordered by Members of Congress; franks and envelopes for Members of Congress
- Section 734 - Stationery and blank books for Congress
- Section 735 - Binding for Senators
- Section 736 - Binding at expense of Members of Congress
- Section 737 - Binding for Senate library
- Section 738 - Binding of publications for distribution to libraries
- Section 739 - Senate and House document rooms; superintendents
- Section 740 - Senate Service Department and House Publications Distribution Service; superintendents
- Section 741 - Disposition of documents stored at Capitol
- Chapter 9 - CONGRESSIONAL RECORD (§§ 901 - 910)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 901 - Congressional Record: arrangement, style, contents, and indexes
- Section 902 - Congressional Record: Indexes
- Section 903 - Congressional Record: daily and permanent forms
- Section 904 - Congressional Record: maps; diagrams; illustrations
- Section 905 - Congressional Record: additional insertions
- Section 906 - Congressional Record: gratuitous copies; delivery
- Section 907 - Congressional Record: extracts for Members of Congress; mailing envelopes
- Section 908 - Congressional Record: payment for printing extracts or other documents
- Section 909 - Congressional Record: exchange for Parliamentary Hansard
- Section 910 - Congressional Record: subscriptions; sale of current, individual numbers, and bound sets; postage rate
- Chapter 11 - EXECUTIVE AND JUDICIARY PRINTING AND BINDING (§§ 1101 - 1123)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 1101 - Printing and binding for the President
- Section 1102 - Printing to be authorized by law and necessary to the public business, not in excess of appropriation, and on special requisition filed with the Public Printer
- Section 1103 - Certificate of necessity; estimate of cost
- Section 1104 - Restrictions on use of illustrations
- Section 1105 - Form and style of work for departments
- Section 1106 - Inserting "compliments" forbidden
- Section 1107 - Appropriations chargeable for printing and binding of documents or reports
- Section 1108 - Presidential approval required for printing of periodicals; number printed; sale to public
- Section 1109 - Printing documents in two or more editions; full number and allotment of full quota
- Section 1110 - Daily examination of Congressional Record for immediate ordering of documents for official use; limit; bills and resolutions
- Section 1111 - Annual reports: time for furnishing manuscript and proofs to Public Printer
- Section 1112 - Annual reports: type for reports of executive officers
- Section 1113 - Annual reports: exclusion of irrelevant matter
- Section 1114 - Annual reports: number of copies for Congress
- Section 1115 - Annual reports: time of delivery by Public Printer to Congress
- Section 1116 - Annual reports: limitation on number of copies printed; reports of bureau chiefs
- Section 1117 - Annual reports: discontinuance of printing of annual or special reports to keep within appropriations
- Section 1118 - Documents beyond scope of ordinary departmental business
- Section 1119 - Government publications as public property
- Section 1120 - Blanks and letterheads for judges and officers of courts
- Section 1121 - Paper and envelopes for Government agencies in the District of Columbia
- Section 1122 - Supplies for Government establishments
- Section 1123 - Binding materials; bookbinding for libraries
- Chapter 13 - PARTICULAR REPORTS AND DOCUMENTS (§§ 1301 - 1344)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 1301 - Agriculture, Department of: report of Secretary
- Section 1302 - Agriculture, Department of: monthly crop report and other publications
- Section 1303 - American Historical Association: report
- Section 1304 - Army and Navy registers
- Section 1305 - Attorney General: opinions
- Section 1306 - Civil Service Commission: report
- Section 1307 - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: nautical products, sale and distribution
- Section 1308 - Coast Guard: annual report of the Commandant
- Section 1309 - Coast Guard: notices to mariners and other special publications
- Section 1310 - Commerce Department: navigation and weather information
- Section 1311 - Repealed. Pub. L. 104-316, title I, §123(b)(1), Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3839
- Section 1312 - Director of Public Health of District of Columbia: report
- Section 1313 - Education, Commissioner of: report
- Section 1314 - Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac
- Section 1315 - Fish and Wildlife Service: bulletins
- Section 1316 - Fish and Wildlife Service: report of the Director
- Section 1317 - Foreign Relations
- Section 1318 - Geological Survey: classes and sizes of publications; report of mineral resources; number of copies; reprints; distribution
- Section 1319 - Geological Survey: specific appropriations required for monographs and bulletins
- Section 1320 - Geological Survey: distribution of publications to public libraries
- Section 1320A - Historical societies' publications
- Section 1321 - Hydrographic Surveys; foreign surveys
- Section 1322 - Immigration and Naturalization Service: report
- Section 1323 - Interstate Commerce Commission: report
- Section 1324 - Labor Statistics, Bureau of: bulletins
- Section 1325 - Labor Statistics, Bureau of: report of Commissioner
- Section 1326 - Librarian of Congress: reports
- Section 1327 - Mines, Bureau of: publications
- Section 1328 - Merchant vessels of the United States
- Section 1329 - Mint: reports of Director
- Section 1330 - Monthly Summary Statement of Imports and Exports
- Section 1331 - National Academy of Sciences: report
- Section 1332 - National encampments of Veterans' organizations; proceedings printed annually for Congress
- Section 1333 - National high school and college debate topics
- Section 1334 - Naval Intelligence Office: additional copies of publications
- Section 1335 - Naval Observatory Observations
- Section 1336 - National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency: special publications
- Section 1337, 1338 - Repealed. Pub. L. 106-113, div. B, §1000(a)(9) [title IV, §4732(b)(25)], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A-585
- Section 1339 - Printing of the President's Message
- Section 1340 - Public Printer: annual report
- Section 1341 - Smithsonian Institution: report
- Section 1342 - Repealed. Pub. L. 104-127, title IV, §384, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1016
- Section 1343 - Statistical Abstract of the United States
- Section 1344 - Treasury Department: reports
- Chapter 15 - FEDERAL REGISTER AND CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS (§§ 1501 - 1511)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 1501 - Definitions
- Section 1502 - Custody and printing of Federal documents; appointment of Director
- Section 1503 - Filing documents with Office; notation of time; public inspection; transmission for printing
- Section 1504 - "Federal Register"; printing; contents; distribution; price
- Section 1505 - Documents to be published in Federal Register
- Section 1506 - Administrative Committee of the Federal Register; establishment and composition; powers and duties
- Section 1507 - Filing document as constructive notice; publication in Federal Register as presumption of validity; judicial notice; citation
- Section 1508 - Publication in Federal Register as notice of hearing
- Section 1509 - Costs of publication, etc.
- Section 1510 - Code of Federal Regulations
- Section 1511 - International agreements excluded from provisions of chapter
- Chapter 17 - DISTRIBUTION AND SALE OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS (§§ 1701 - 1722)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 1701 - Publications for public distribution to be distributed by the Public Printer; mailing lists
- Section 1702 - Superintendent of Documents; sale of documents
- Section 1703 - Superintendent of Documents: assistants, blanks, printing and binding
- Section 1704 - Superintendent of Documents: pay of employees for night, Sunday, holiday, and overtime work
- Section 1705 - Printing additional copies for sale to public; regulations
- Section 1706 - Printing and sale of extra copies of documents
- Section 1707 - Reprinting of documents required for sale
- Section 1708 - Prices for sales copies of publications; crediting of receipts; resale by dealers; sales agents
- Section 1709 - Blank forms: printing and sale to public
- Section 1710 - Index of documents: number and distribution
- Section 1711 - Catalog of Government publications
- Section 1712 - Documents for use of the Public Printer
- Section 1713 - Documents to be delivered to the Executive Mansion
- Section 1714 - Publications for use of National Archives and Records Administration
- Section 1715 - Publications for department or officer or for congressional committees
- Section 1716 - Public documents for legations and consulates of United States
- Section 1717 - Documents and reports for foreign legations
- Section 1718 - Distribution of Government publications to the Library of Congress
- Section 1719 - International exchange of Government publications
- Section 1720 - Documents not needed by departments to be turned over to Superintendent of Documents
- Section 1721 - Exchange of documents by heads of departments
- Section 1722 - Departmental distribution of publications
- Chapter 19 - DEPOSITORY LIBRARY PROGRAM (§§ 1901 - 1916)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 1901 - Definition of Government publication
- Section 1902 - Availability of Government publications through Superintendent of Documents; lists of publications not ordered from Government Printing Office
- Section 1903 - Distribution of publications to depositories; notice to Government components; cost of printing and binding
- Section 1904 - Classified list of Government publications for selection by depositories
- Section 1905 - Distribution to depositories; designation of additional libraries; justification; authorization for certain designations
- Section 1906 - Land-grant colleges constituted depositories
- Section 1907 - Libraries of executive departments, service academies, and independent agencies constituted depositories; certifications of need; disposal of unwanted publications
- Section 1908 - American Antiquarian Society to receive certain publications
- Section 1909 - Requirements of depository libraries; reports on conditions; investigations; termination; replacement
- Section 1910 - Designations of replacement depositories; limitations on numbers; conditions
- Section 1911 - Free use of Government publications in depositories; disposal of unwanted publications
- Section 1912 - Regional depositories; designation; functions; disposal of publications
- Section 1913 - Appropriations for supplying depository libraries; restriction
- Section 1914 - Implementation of depository library program by Public Printer
- Section 1915 - Highest State appellate court libraries as depository libraries
- Section 1916 - Designation of libraries of accredited law schools as depository libraries
- Chapter 21 - NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION (§§ 2101 - 2120)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 2101 - Definitions
- Section 2102 - Establishment
- Section 2103 - Officers
- Section 2104 - Administrative provisions
- Section 2105 - Personnel and services
- Section 2106 - Reports to Congress
- Section 2107 - Acceptance of records for historical preservation
- Section 2108 - Responsibility for custody, use, and withdrawal of records
- Section 2109 - Preservation, arrangement, duplication, exhibition of records
- Section 2110 - Servicing records
- Section 2111 - Material accepted for deposit
- Section 2112 - Presidential archival depository
- Section 2113 - Depository for agreements between States
- Section 2114 - Preservation of motion-picture films, still pictures, and sound recordings
- Section 2115 - Reports; correction of violations
- Section 2116 - Legal status of reproductions; official seal; fees for copies and reproductions
- Section 2117 - Limitation on liability
- Section 2118 - Records of Congress
- Section 2119 - Cooperative agreements
- Section 2120 - Online access of founding fathers documents
- Chapter 22 - PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS (§§ 2201 - 2207)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 2201 - Definitions
- Section 2202 - Ownership of Presidential records
- Section 2203 - Management and custody of Presidential records
- Section 2204 - Restrictions on access to Presidential records
- Section 2205 - Exceptions to restricted access
- Section 2206 - Regulations
- Section 2207 - Vice-Presidential records
- Chapter 23 - NATIONAL ARCHIVES TRUST FUND BOARD (§§ 2301 - 2308)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 2301 - Establishment of Board; membership
- Section 2302 - Authority of the Board; seal; services; bylaws; rules; regulations; employees
- Section 2303 - Powers and obligations of the Board; liability of members
- Section 2304 - Compensation of members; availability of trust funds for expenses of the Board
- Section 2305 - Acceptance of gifts
- Section 2306 - Investment of funds
- Section 2307 - Trust fund account; disbursements; sales of publications and releases
- Section 2308 - Tax exemption for gifts
- Chapter 25 - NATIONAL HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS AND RECORDS COMMISSION (§§ 2501 - 2507)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 2501 - Creation; composition; appointment and tenure; meetings
- Section 2502 - Vacancies
- Section 2503 - Executive director, staff, transportation expenses
- Section 2504 - Duties; authorization of grants for historical publications and records programs; authorization for appropriations
- Section 2505 - Special advisory committees; membership; reimbursement
- Section 2506 - Records to be kept by grantees
- Section 2507 - Repealed. Pub. L. 98-497, title I, §107(b)(12)(A), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2287
- Chapter 27 - ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE RECORDS OF CONGRESS (§§ 2701 - 2706)
- Chapter 29 - RECORDS MANAGEMENT BY THE ARCHIVIST OF THE UNITED STATES AND BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF GENERAL... (§§ 2901 - 2910)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 2901 - Definitions
- Section 2902 - Objectives of records management
- Section 2903 - Custody and control of property
- Section 2904 - General responsibilities for records management
- Section 2905 - Establishment of standards for selective retention of records; security measures
- Section 2906 - Inspection of agency records
- Section 2907 - Records centers and centralized microfilming services
- Section 2908 - Regulations
- Section 2909 - Retention of records
- Section 2910 - Preservation of Freedmen's Bureau records
- Chapter 31 - RECORDS MANAGEMENT BY FEDERAL AGENCIES (§§ 3101 - 3107)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 3101 - Records management by agency heads; general duties
- Section 3102 - Establishment of program of management
- Section 3103 - Transfer of records to records centers
- Section 3104 - Certifications and determinations on transferred records
- Section 3105 - Safeguards
- Section 3106 - Unlawful removal, destruction of records
- Section 3107 - Authority of Comptroller General
- Chapter 33 - DISPOSAL OF RECORDS (§§ 3301 - 3324)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 3301 - Definition of records
- Section 3302 - Regulations covering lists of records for disposal, procedure for disposal, and standards for reproduction
- Section 3303 - Lists and schedules of records to be submitted to the Archivist by head of each Government agency
- Section 3303a - Examination by Archivist of lists and schedules of records lacking preservation value; disposal of records
- Section 3304 to 3307 - Repealed. Pub. L. 91-287, §2(c), June 23, 1970, 84 Stat. 321
- Section 3308 - Disposal of similar records where prior disposal was authorized
- Section 3309 - Preservation of claims of Government until settled in Government Accountability Office; disposal authorized upon written approval of Comptroller General
- Section 3310 - Disposal of records constituting menace to health, life, or property
- Section 3311 - Destruction of records outside continental United States in time of war or when hostile action seems imminent; written report to Archivist
- Section 3312 - Photographs or microphotographs of records considered as originals; certified reproductions admissible in evidence
- Section 3313 - Moneys from sale of records payable into the Treasury
- Section 3314 - Procedures for disposal of records exclusive
- Section 3315 - Definitions
- Section 3316 - Establishment of Commission
- Section 3317 - Duties of Commission
- Section 3318 - Membership
- Section 3319 - Director and staff; experts and consultants
- Section 3320 - Powers of Commission
- Section 3321 - Support services
- Section 3322 - Report
- Section 3323 - Termination
- Section 3324 - Authorization of appropriations
- Chapter 35 - COORDINATION OF FEDERAL INFORMATION POLICY (§§ 3501 - 3549)
- Chapter 36 - MANAGEMENT AND PROMOTION OF ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT SERVICES (§§ 3601 - 3606)
- Table Of Contents
- Section 3601 - Definitions
- Section 3602 - Office of Electronic Government
- Section 3603 - Chief Information Officers Council
- Section 3604 - E-Government Fund
- Section 3605 - Program to encourage innovative solutions to enhance electronic Government services and processes
- Section 3606 - E-Government report
- Chapter 37 - ADVERTISEMENTS BY GOVERNMENT AGENCIES (§§ 3701 - 3703)
- Chapter 39 - GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL (§§ 3901 - 3903)
- Chapter 41 - ACCESS TO FEDERAL ELECTRONIC INFORMATION (§§ 4101 - 4104)
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