§201 — Title 1 General Provisions | U.S. Code

Summary

The House Judiciary Committee can tell the Archivist of the United States not to publish certain law volumes in slip or pamphlet form, or in the Statutes at Large, when those volumes are the ones listed in sections 202 and 203. The committee can also order that fewer copies be printed and distributed, but the Director of the Government Publishing Office must still print enough copies for the libraries that receive government documents and for sale. The committee may stop printing and distributing supplements to the United States Code or the District of Columbia Code entirely, except that at least one supplement for each Congress must be printed and distributed containing that Congress’s laws.

Title 1, §201

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In order to avoid duplication and waste—

(a)Publication in slip or pamphlet form or in the Statutes at Large of any of the volumes or publications enumerated in section 202 and 203 of this title, shall, in event of enactment, be dispensed with whenever the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives so directs the Archivist of the United States;

(b)Curtailment of the number provided by law to be printed and distributed of the volumes or publications enumerated in section 202 and 203 of this title may be directed by such committee, except that the Director of the Government Publishing Office shall print such numbers as are necessary for depository library distribution and for sale; and

(c)Such committee may direct that the printing and distribution of any supplement to the Code of Laws of the United States or to the Code of the District of Columbia be dispensed with entirely, except that there shall be printed and distributed for each Congress at least one supplement to each such code, containing the legislation of such Congress.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1984—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 98–497 substituted “Archivist of the United States” for “Administrator of General Services”. 1954—Subsec. (a). Act Sept. 3, 1954, substituted “Administrator of General Services” for “Secretary of State”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Director of the Government Publishing Office” substituted for “Public Printer” in subsec. (b) on authority of section 1301(d) of Pub. L. 113–235, set out as a note under section 301 of Title 44, Public Printing and Documents.

Effective Date

of 1984 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 98–497 effective Apr. 1, 1985, see section 301 of Pub. L. 98–497, set out as a note under section 2102 of Title 44, Public Printing and Documents.

§201 Publication and Distribution of Code of Laws of United States and Supplements and District of Columbia Code and Supplements