§1701 — Title 44 Public Printing and Documents | U.S. Code

Summary

Money provided by Congress cannot be used by executive departments or other federal offices in Washington, D.C. to address, wrap, mail, or send out publications to the public, or to buy supplies for that work. The only exceptions are maps, weather reports, and weather cards they issue. The Government Publishing Office (GPO) must do the mailing and related work. Department heads must give the GPO mailing lists, updates, and any penalty-mail forms the GPO needs. The GPO may send copies only as the law allows or as the department directs. The rule does not cover printed orders, notices, or circulars issued by a department, distribution by Senators or House Members, or work done by the Senate Service Department, House Publications Distribution Service, or congressional document rooms.

Title 44, §1701

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Money appropriated by any Act may not be used for services in an executive department or other Government establishment at the District of Columbia, in the work of addressing, wrapping, mailing, or otherwise dispatching a publication for public distribution, except maps, weather reports, and weather cards issued by them or for the purchase of material or supplies to be used in this work. The Director of the Government Publishing Office shall perform this work at the Government Publishing Office. The head of an executive department, independent office, and establishment of the Government at the District of Columbia, shall furnish from time to time to the Director of the Government Publishing Office mailing lists, in convenient form, and changes in them, or penalty mail slips, for use in the public distribution of publications issued by the department or establishment. The Director of the Government Publishing Office may furnish copies of a publication only in accordance with law or the instruction of the head of the department or establishment issuing the publication. This section does not apply to orders, instructions, directions, notices, or circulars of information printed for and issued by an executive department or other Government establishment or to the distribution of public documents by Senators or Members of the House of Representatives or to the Senate Service Department, House of Representatives Publications Distribution Service, and document rooms of the Senate or House of Representatives.

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Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 95 (Aug. 23, 1912, ch. 350, § 8, 37 Stat. 414; July 2, 1954, ch. 455, title I, § 101, 68 Stat. 397). “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. The term “executive department, independent office, and establishment of the Government” is substituted for “executive department and other Government establishment” for uniformity.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

Pub. L. 113–235, § 1301(c), substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer” wherever appearing in section catchline and text.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Government Publishing Office” substituted for “Government Printing Office” in text on authority of section 1301(b) of Pub. L. 113–235, set out as a note preceding section 301 of this title.

§1701 Publications for public distribution to be distributed by the Director of the Government Publishing Office; mailing lists

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Title 44, §1701

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Historical and Revision Notes

Change of Name

Editorial Notes

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

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