Title 44 — Public Printing and Documents
345 sections across 23 chapters.
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Ch. 1 — Joint Committee on Printing: membership 3 sections
Ch. 3 — Director of the Government Publishing Office: appointment 18 sections
- § 301 Director of the Government Publishing Office: appointment
- § 302 Deputy Director of the Government Publishing Office: appointment; duties
- § 303 Director of the Government Publishing Office and Deputy Director of the Government Publishing Office: pay
- § 304 Director of the Government Publishing Office: vacancy in office
- § 305 Director of the Government Publishing Office: employees; pay
- § 306 Director of the Government Publishing Office: employment of skilled workmen; trial of skill
- § 307 Director of the Government Publishing Office: night work
- § 308 Disbursing officer; deputy disbursing officer; certifying officers and employees
- § 309 Revolving fund for operation and maintenance of Government Publishing Office: capitalization; reimbursements and credits; accounting and budgeting; reports
- § 310 Payments for printing, binding, blank paper, and supplies
- § 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
- § 312 Machinery, material, equipment, or supplies from other Government agencies
- § 313 Examining boards: paper; bindery materials; machinery
- § 314 Inks, glues, and other supplies furnished to other Government agencies: payment
- § 315 Branches of Government Publishing Office; limitations
- § 316 Detail of employees of Government Publishing Office to other Government establishments
- § 317 Special policemen
- § 318 Transfer of surplus property; acceptance of voluntary services
Ch. 5 — Government printing 17 sections
- § 501 Government printing, binding, and blank-book work to be done at Government Publishing Office
- § 502 Procurement of printing, binding, and blank-book work by Director of the Government Publishing Office
- § 503 Printing in veterans’ hospitals
- § 504 Direct purchase of printing, binding, and blank-book work by Government agencies
- § 505 Sale of duplicate plates
- § 506 Time for printing documents or reports which include illustrations or maps
- § 507 Orders for printing to be acted upon within one year
- § 508 Annual estimates of quantity of paper required for public printing and binding
- § 509 Standards of paper; advertisements for proposals; samples
- § 510 Specifications in advertisements for paper
- § 511 Opening bids; bonds
- § 512 Approval of paper contracts; time for performance; bonds
- § 513 Comparison of paper and envelopes with standard quality
- § 514 Determination of quality of paper
- § 515 Default of contractor; new contracts and purchase in open market
- § 516 Liability of defaulting contractor
- § 517 Purchase of paper in open market
Ch. 7 — “Usual number” of documents and reports 41 sections
- § 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
- § 702 Extra copies of documents and reports
- § 703 Printing extra copies
- § 704 Reprinting bills, laws, and reports from committees not exceeding fifty pages
- § 705 Duplicate orders to print
- § 706 Bills and resolutions: number and distribution
- § 707 Bills and resolutions: style and form
- § 708 Bills and resolutions: binding sets for Congress
- § 709 Public and private laws, postal conventions, and treaties
- § 710 Copies of Acts furnished to Director of the Government Publishing Office
- § 711 Printing Acts, joint resolutions, and treaties
- § 712 Printing of postal conventions
- § 713 Journals of Houses of Congress
- § 714 Printing documents for Congress in two or more editions; printing of full number and allotment of full quota
- § 715 Senate and House documents and reports for Department of State
- § 716 Printing of documents not provided for by law
- § 717 Appropriation chargeable for printing of document or report by order of Congress
- § 718 Lapse of authority to print
- § 719 Classification and numbering of publications ordered printed by Congress; designation of publications of departments; printing of committee hearings
- § 720 Senate and House Manuals
- § 721 Congressional Directory
- § 722 Congressional Directory: sale
- § 723 Memorial addresses: preparation; distribution
- § 724 Memorial addresses: illustrations
- § 725 Statement of appropriations; “usual number”
- § 726 Printing for committees of Congress
- § 727 Committee reports: indexing and binding
- § 728 United States Statutes at Large: distribution
- § 729 United States Statutes at Large: references in margins
- § 730 Distribution of documents to Members of Congress
- § 731 Allotments of public documents printed after expiration of terms of Members of Congress; rights of retiring Members to documents
- § 732 Time for distribution of documents by Members of Congress extended
- § 733 Documents and reports ordered by Members of Congress; franks and envelopes for Members of Congress
- § 734 Stationery and blank books for Congress
- § 735 Binding for Senators
- § 736 Binding at expense of Members of Congress
- § 737 Binding for Senate library
- § 738 Binding of publications for distribution to libraries
- § 739 Senate and House document rooms; superintendents
- § 740 Senate Service Department and House Publications Distribution Service; superintendents
- § 741 Disposition of documents stored at Capitol
Ch. 9 — Congressional Record: arrangement 10 sections
- § 901 Congressional Record: arrangement, style, contents, and indexes
- § 902 Congressional Record: Indexes
- § 903 Congressional Record: daily and permanent forms
- § 904 Congressional Record: maps; diagrams; illustrations
- § 905 Congressional Record: additional insertions
- § 906 Congressional Record: gratuitous copies; delivery
- § 907 Congressional Record: extracts for Members of Congress; mailing envelopes
- § 908 Congressional Record: payment for printing extracts or other documents
- § 909 Congressional Record: exchange for Parliamentary Hansard
- § 910 Congressional Record: subscriptions; sale of current, individual numbers, and bound sets; postage rate
Ch. 11 — Printing and binding for the President 23 sections
- § 1101 Printing and binding for the President
- § 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 Director of the Government Publishing Office
- § 1103 Certificate of necessity; estimate of cost
- § 1104 Restrictions on use of illustrations
- § 1105 Form and style of work for departments
- § 1106 Inserting “compliments” forbidden
- § 1107 Appropriations chargeable for printing and binding of documents or reports
- § 1108 Presidential approval required for printing of periodicals; number printed; sale to public
- § 1109 Printing documents in two or more editions; full number and allotment of full quota
- § 1110 Daily examination of Congressional Record for immediate ordering of documents for official use; limit; bills and resolutions
- § 1111 Annual reports: time for furnishing manuscript and proofs to Director of the Government Publishing Office
- § 1112 Annual reports: type for reports of executive officers
- § 1113 Annual reports: exclusion of irrelevant matter
- § 1114 Annual reports: number of copies for Congress
- § 1115 Annual reports: time of delivery by Director of the Government Publishing Office to Congress
- § 1116 Annual reports: limitation on number of copies printed; reports of bureau chiefs
- § 1117 Annual reports: discontinuance of printing of annual or special reports to keep within appropriations
- § 1118 Documents beyond scope of ordinary departmental business
- § 1119 Government publications as public property
- § 1120 Blanks and letterheads for judges and officers of courts
- § 1121 Paper and envelopes for Government agencies in the District of Columbia
- § 1122 Supplies for Government establishments
- § 1123 Binding materials; bookbinding for libraries
Ch. 13 — Agriculture 3 inactive 41 sections
- § 1301 Agriculture, Department of: report of Secretary
- § 1302 Agriculture, Department of: monthly crop report and other publications
- § 1303 American Historical Association: report
- § 1304 Army and Navy registers
- § 1305 Attorney General: opinions
- § 1306 Civil Service Commission: report
- § 1307 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: nautical products, sale and distribution
- § 1308 Coast Guard: annual report of the Commandant
- § 1309 Coast Guard: notices to mariners and other special publications
- § 1310 Commerce Department: navigation and weather information
- § 1311 Repealed. Pub. L. 104–316, title I, § 123(b)(1) , Oct. 19, 1996 , 110 Stat. 3839 ] Repealed
- § 1312 Director of Public Health of District of Columbia: report
- § 1313 Education, Commissioner of: report
- § 1314 Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac
- § 1315 Fish and Wildlife Service: bulletins
- § 1316 Fish and Wildlife Service: report of the Director
- § 1317 Foreign Relations
- § 1318 Geological Survey: classes and sizes of publications; report of mineral resources; number of copies; reprints; distribution
- § 1319 Geological Survey: specific appropriations required for monographs and bulletins
- § 1320 Geological Survey: distribution of publications to public libraries
- § 1320A Historical societies’ publications
- § 1321 Hydrographic Surveys; foreign surveys
- § 1322 Immigration and Naturalization Service: report
- § 1323 Interstate Commerce Commission: report
- § 1324 Labor Statistics, Bureau of: bulletins
- § 1325 Labor Statistics, Bureau of: report of Commissioner
- § 1326 Librarian of Congress: reports
- § 1327 Mines, Bureau of: publications
- § 1328 Merchant vessels of the United States
- § 1329 Mint: reports of Director
- § 1330 Monthly Summary Statement of Imports and Exports
- § 1331 National Academy of Sciences: report
- § 1332 National encampments of Veterans’ organizations; proceedings printed annually for Congress
- § 1333 National high school and college debate topics
- § 1334 Naval Intelligence Office: additional copies of publications
- § 1335 Naval Observatory Observations
- § 1336 National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency: special publications
- § 1338 Repealed. Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(9) [title IV, § 4732(b)(25)] , Nov. 29, 1999 , 113 Stat. 1536 , 1501A–585] Repealed
- § 1339 Printing of the President’s Message
- § 1340 Director of the Government Publishing Office: annual report
- § 1341 Smithsonian Institution: report
- § 1342 Repealed. Pub. L. 104–127, title IV, § 384 , Apr. 4, 1996 , 110 Stat. 1016 ] Repealed
- § 1343 Statistical Abstract of the United States
- § 1344 Treasury Department: reports
Ch. 15 — Custody and printing of Federal documents 11 sections
- § 1501 Definitions
- § 1502 Custody and printing of Federal documents; appointment of Director
- § 1503 Filing documents with Office; notation of time; public inspection; transmission for printing
- § 1504 “Federal Register”; printing; contents; distribution; price
- § 1505 Documents to be published in Federal Register
- § 1506 Administrative Committee of the Federal Register; establishment and composition; powers and duties
- § 1507 Filing document as constructive notice; publication in Federal Register as presumption of validity; judicial notice; citation
- § 1508 Publication in Federal Register as notice of hearing
- § 1509 Costs of publication, etc.
- § 1510 Code of Federal Regulations
- § 1511 International agreements excluded from provisions of chapter
Ch. 17 — Publications for public distribution to be distributed by th 22 sections
- § 1701 Publications for public distribution to be distributed by the Director of the Government Publishing Office; mailing lists
- § 1702 Superintendent of Documents; sale of documents
- § 1703 Superintendent of Documents: assistants, blanks, printing and binding
- § 1704 Superintendent of Documents: pay of employees for night, Sunday, holiday, and overtime work
- § 1705 Printing additional copies for sale to public; regulations
- § 1706 Printing and sale of extra copies of documents
- § 1707 Reprinting of documents required for sale
- § 1708 Prices for sales copies of publications; crediting of receipts; resale by dealers; sales agents
- § 1709 Blank forms: printing and sale to public
- § 1710 Index of documents: number and distribution
- § 1711 Catalog of Government publications
- § 1712 Documents for use of the Director of the Government Publishing Office
- § 1713 Documents to be delivered to the Executive Mansion
- § 1714 Publications for use of National Archives and Records Administration
- § 1715 Publications for department or officer or for congressional committees
- § 1716 Public documents for legations and consulates of United States
- § 1717 Documents and reports for foreign legations
- § 1718 Distribution of Government publications to the Library of Congress
- § 1719 International exchange of Government publications
- § 1720 Documents not needed by departments to be turned over to Superintendent of Documents
- § 1721 Exchange of documents by heads of departments
- § 1722 Departmental distribution of publications
Ch. 19 — Definition of Government publication 16 sections
- § 1901 Definition of Government publication
- § 1902 Availability of Government publications through Superintendent of Documents; lists of publications not ordered from Government Publishing Office
- § 1903 Distribution of publications to depositories; notice to Government components; cost of printing and binding
- § 1904 Classified list of Government publications for selection by depositories
- § 1905 Distribution to depositories; designation of additional libraries; justification; authorization for certain designations
- § 1906 Land-grant colleges constituted depositories
- § 1907 Libraries of executive departments, service academies, and independent agencies constituted depositories; certifications of need; disposal of unwanted publications
- § 1908 American Antiquarian Society to receive certain publications
- § 1909 Requirements of depository libraries; reports on conditions; investigations; termination; replacement
- § 1910 Designations of replacement depositories; limitations on numbers; conditions
- § 1911 Free use of Government publications in depositories; disposal of unwanted publications
- § 1912 Regional depositories; designation; functions; disposal of publications
- § 1913 Appropriations for supplying depository libraries; restriction
- § 1914 Implementation of depository library program by Director of the Government Publishing Office
- § 1915 Highest State appellate court libraries as depository libraries
- § 1916 Designation of libraries of accredited law schools as depository libraries
Ch. 21 — Officers 20 sections
- § 2101 Definitions
- § 2102 Establishment
- § 2103 Officers
- § 2104 Administrative provisions
- § 2105 Personnel and services
- § 2106 Reports to Congress
- § 2107 Acceptance of records for historical preservation
- § 2108 Responsibility for custody, use, and withdrawal of records
- § 2109 Preservation, arrangement, duplication, exhibition of records
- § 2110 Servicing records
- § 2111 Material accepted for deposit
- § 2112 Presidential archival depository
- § 2113 Depository for agreements between States
- § 2114 Preservation of audio and visual records
- § 2115 Reports; correction of violations
- § 2116 Legal status of reproductions; official seal; fees for copies and reproductions
- § 2117 Limitation on liability
- § 2118 Records of Congress
- § 2119 Cooperative agreements
- § 2120 Online access of founding fathers documents
Ch. 22 — Ownership of Presidential records 9 sections
- § 2201 Definitions
- § 2202 Ownership of Presidential records
- § 2203 Management and custody of Presidential records
- § 2204 Restrictions on access to Presidential records
- § 2205 Exceptions to restricted access
- § 2206 Regulations
- § 2207 Vice-Presidential records
- § 2208 Claims of constitutionally based privilege against disclosure
- § 2209 Disclosure requirement for official business conducted using non-official electronic messaging accounts
Ch. 23 — Authority of the Board 8 sections
- § 2301 Establishment of Board; membership
- § 2302 Authority of the Board; seal; services; bylaws; rules; regulations; employees
- § 2303 Powers and obligations of the Board; liability of members
- § 2304 Compensation of members; availability of trust funds for expenses of the Board
- § 2305 Acceptance of gifts
- § 2306 Investment of funds
- § 2307 Trust fund account; disbursements; sales of publications and releases
- § 2308 Tax exemption for gifts
Ch. 25 — Creation 1 inactive 6 sections
- § 2501 Creation; composition; appointment and tenure; meetings
- § 2502 Vacancies
- § 2503 Executive director, staff, transportation expenses
- § 2504 Duties; authorization of grants for historical publications and records programs; authorization for appropriations
- § 2505 Special advisory committees; membership; reimbursement
- § 2506 Records to be kept by grantees
- § 2507 Repealed. Pub. L. 98–497, title I, § 107(b)(12)(A) , Oct. 19, 1984 , 98 Stat. 2287 ] Repealed
Ch. 27 — Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress 6 sections
Ch. 29 — Objectives of records management 11 sections
- § 2901 Definitions
- § 2902 Objectives of records management
- § 2903 Custody and control of property
- § 2904 General responsibilities for records management
- § 2905 Establishment of standards for selective retention of records; security measures
- § 2906 Inspection of agency records
- § 2907 Records centers and centralized microfilming or digitization services
- § 2908 Regulations
- § 2909 Retention of records
- § 2910 Preservation of Freedmen’s Bureau records
- § 2911 Disclosure requirement for official business conducted using non-official electronic messaging accounts
Ch. 31 — Records management by agency heads 7 sections
- § 3101 Records management by agency heads; general duties
- § 3102 Establishment of program of management
- § 3103 Transfer of records to records centers
- § 3104 Certifications and determinations on transferred records
- § 3105 Safeguards
- § 3106 Unlawful removal, destruction of records
- § 3107 Authority of Comptroller General
Ch. 33 — Definition of records 2 inactive 11 sections
- § 3301 Definition of records
- § 3302 Regulations covering lists of records for disposal, procedure for disposal, and standards for reproduction
- § 3303 Lists and schedules of records to be submitted to the Archivist by head of each Government agency
- § 3303a Examination by Archivist of lists and schedules of records lacking preservation value; disposal of records
- § 3307 Repealed. Pub. L. 91–287, § 2(c) , June 23, 1970 , 84 Stat. 321 ] Repealed
- § 3308 Disposal of similar records where prior disposal was authorized
- § 3309 Preservation of claims of Government until settled in Government Accountability Office; disposal authorized upon written approval of Comptroller General
- § 3310 Disposal of records constituting menace to health, life, or property
- § 3311 Destruction of records outside continental United States in time of war or when hostile action seems imminent; written report to Archivist
- § 3312 Photographs or microphotographs of records considered as originals; certified reproductions admissible in evidence
- § 3313 Moneys from sale of records payable into the Treasury
- § 3314 Procedures for disposal of records exclusive
- § 3324 Repealed. Pub. L. 113–187, § 7(a) , Nov. 26, 2014 , 128 Stat. 2011 ] Repealed
Ch. 35 — Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs 1 inactive 42 sections
- § 3501 Purposes
- § 3502 Definitions
- § 3503 Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
- § 3504 Authority and functions of Director
- § 3505 Assignment of tasks and deadlines
- § 3506 Federal agency responsibilities
- § 3507 Public information collection activities; submission to Director; approval and delegation
- § 3508 Determination of necessity for information; hearing
- § 3509 Designation of central collection agency
- § 3510 Cooperation of agencies in making information available
- § 3511 Data inventory and Federal data catalogue
- § 3512 Public protection
- § 3513 Director review of agency activities; reporting; agency response
- § 3514 Responsiveness to Congress
- § 3515 Administrative powers
- § 3516 Rules and regulations
- § 3517 Consultation with other agencies and the public
- § 3518 Effect on existing laws and regulations
- § 3519 Access to information
- § 3520 Chief Data Officers
- § 3520A Chief Data Officer Council
- § 3521 Authorization of appropriations
- § 3549 Repealed. Pub. L. 113–283, § 2(a) , Dec. 18, 2014 , 128 Stat. 3073 ] Repealed
- § 3551 Purposes
- § 3552 Definitions
- § 3553 Authority and functions of the Director and the Secretary
- § 3554 Federal agency responsibilities
- § 3555 Annual independent evaluation
- § 3556 Federal information security incident center
- § 3557 National security systems
- § 3558 Effect on existing law
- § 3559 Federal websites required to be mobile friendly
- § 3561 Definitions
- § 3562 Coordination and oversight of policies
- § 3563 Statistical agencies
- § 3564 Effect on other laws
- § 3571 Findings
- § 3572 Confidential information protection
- § 3575 Findings
- § 3576 Designated statistical agencies
- § 3581 Presumption of accessibility for statistical agencies and units
- § 3582 Expanding secure access to CIPSEA data assets
- § 3583 Application to access data assets for developing evidence