§ 211. — Copies to Members of Congress.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 1USC211]
TITLE 1--GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 3--CODE OF LAWS OF UNITED STATES AND SUPPLEMENTS; DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA CODE AND SUPPLEMENTS
Sec. 211. Copies to Members of Congress
In addition to quotas provided for by section 210 of this title
there shall be printed, published, and distributed of the Code of Laws
relating to the District of Columbia with tables, index, and other
ancillaries, suitably bound and with thumb inserts and other convenient
devices to distinguish the parts, and of the supplements to both codes
as provided for by sections 202, 203 of this title, ten copies of each
for each Member of the Senate and House of Representatives of the
Congress in which the original authorized publication is made, for his
use and distribution, and in addition for the Committee on the Judiciary
of the House of Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of
the Senate a number of bound copies of each equal to ten times the
number of members of such committees, and one bound copy of each for the
use of each committee of the Senate and House of Representatives.
(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 640.)
Limitation on Copies of New Editions for House of Representatives
Pub. L. 92-342, Sec. 101, July 10, 1972, 86 Stat. 447, provided
that: ``Hereafter, appropriations for authorized printing and binding
for the Congress shall not be available under the authority of the Act
of July 30, 1947 (1 U.S.C. 211) for the printing, publication, and
distribution of more than two copies of new editions of the Code of Laws
of the United States and of the Code of the District of Columbia for
each Member of the House of Representatives.''
Written Requests for Documents
Copies of District of Columbia Code and Supplements not available to
Senators or Representatives unless specifically requested by them, in
writing, see Pub. L. 94-59, title VIII, Sec. 801, July 25, 1975, 89
Stat. 296, set out as a note under section 1317 of Title 44, Public
Printing and Documents.