§ 1702. — Superintendent of Documents; sale of documents.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 44USC1702]
TITLE 44--PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS
CHAPTER 17--DISTRIBUTION AND SALE OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS
Sec. 1702. Superintendent of Documents; sale of documents
The Public Printer shall appoint a competent person to act as
Superintendent of Documents who shall be under the control of the Public
Printer.
When an officer of the Government having in his charge documents
published for sale desires to be relieved of them, he may turn them over
to the Superintendent of Documents, who shall receive and sell them
under this section. Moneys received from the sale of documents shall be
returned to the Public Printer on the first day of each month and be
covered into the Treasury monthly.
The Superintendent of Documents shall also report monthly to the
Public Printer the number of documents received by him and the
disposition made of them. He shall have general supervision of the
distribution of all public documents, and to his custody shall be
committed all documents subject to distribution, excepting those printed
for the special official use of the executive departments, which shall
be delivered to the departments, and those printed for the use of the
two Houses of Congress, which shall be delivered to the Senate Service
Department and House of Representatives Publications Distribution
Service and distributed or delivered ready for distribution to Members
upon their order by the superintendents of the Senate Service Department
and House Publications Distribution Service, respectively.
(Pub. L. 90-620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1279.)
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., Secs. 71, 73 (part) (Jan. 12, 1895,
ch. 23, Sec. 61, 28 Stat. 610; June 25, 1910, ch. 384, Sec. 1, 36 Stat.
770; Aug. 7, 1946, ch. 770, Sec. 1(62), 60 Stat. 871).
This section incorporates only part of former section 73. The
balance will be found in section 308 of the revision.
``House of Representatives Publications Distribution Service'' is
substituted for ``House Folding Room'' because of the change of name
under authority of Public Law 88-652.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 4102 of this title; title 28
section 594.
