§ 1710. — Index of documents: number and distribution.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 44USC1710]
TITLE 44--PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS
CHAPTER 17--DISTRIBUTION AND SALE OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS
Sec. 1710. Index of documents: number and distribution
The Superintendent of Documents, at the close of each regular
session of Congress, shall prepare and publish a comprehensive index of
public documents, upon a plan approved by the Joint Committee on
Printing. The Public Printer shall, immediately upon its publication,
deliver to him a copy of every document printed by the Government
Printing Office. The head of each executive department, independent
agency and establishment of the Government shall deliver to him a copy
of every document issued or published by the department, bureau, or
office not confidential in character. He shall also prepare and print in
one volume a consolidated index of Congressional documents, and shall
index single volumes of documents as the Joint Committee on Printing
directs. Two thousand copies each of the comprehensive index and of the
consolidated index shall be printed and bound in addition to the usual
number, two hundred for the Senate, eight hundred for the House of
Representatives and one thousand for distribution by the Superintendent
of Documents.
(Pub. L. 90-620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1280.)
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., Sec. 76 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23,
Sec. 62, 28 Stat. 610).