PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

The Director of the Government Publishing Office must print and bind each volume of the official papers about the Territories of the United States. For each volume, 420 copies are sent to the Superintendent of Documents to be handed out—one copy each—to up to eight organizations in each State, Territory, or Possession that the Governor names (the Archivist will direct which ones get them). One hundred copies go to the National Archives and Records Administration for its use. Another 100 copies go to the Superintendent of Documents for distribution as the Joint Committee on Printing approves. The organizations a Governor names (historical groups, commissions, museums, or nondepository libraries) will keep getting future volumes while they exist. The Superintendent will follow lists the Archivist sends. A Governor may name a new recipient only if a named organization stops existing or if a law allows it.

Title 4, §145

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(a)The Director of the Government Publishing Office shall print and bind each volume of the official papers relating to the Territories of the United States as provided for in this chapter, of which—

(1)four hundred and twenty copies shall be delivered to the Superintendent of Documents, Government Publishing Office, for distribution, on the basis of one copy each, and as directed by the Archivist, to those historical associations, commissions, museums, or libraries and other nondepository libraries, not to exceed eight in number within each State, Territory, or Possession, which have been or may be designated by the Governor thereof to receive such copies;

(2)one hundred copies shall be delivered to the National Archives and Records Administration for the use of that Administration; and

(3)one hundred copies shall be delivered to the Superintendent of Documents for distribution in such manner and number as may be authorized and directed by the Joint Committee on Printing.

(b)The historical associations, commissions, museums, or libraries and other nondepository libraries within each State, Territory, or Possession which have been or may be designated by the Governor thereof to receive the publications referred to in subsection (a) of this section, shall, during their existence, receive the succeeding volumes, the distribution of which shall be made by the Superintendent of Documents in accordance with lists of designations transmitted to him by the Archivist. A new designation may be made to the Archivist by the Governor only when a designated association, commission, museum, or library shall cease to exist, or when authorized by law.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1984—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 98–497 substituted “Archivist” for “Administrator”. Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 98–497 substituted “National Archives and Records Administration” for “General Services Administration”. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 98–497 substituted “Archivist” for “Administrator” in two places.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Director of the Government Publishing Office” substituted for “Public Printer” in subsec. (a) 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. “Government Publishing Office” substituted for “Government Printing Office” in subsec. (a)(1) on authority of section 1301(b) of Pub. L. 113–235, set out as a note preceding 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. Similar Provisions; Repeal; Saving Clause; Delegation of Functions; Transfer of Property and Personnel See note preceding section 141 of this title.

§145 Printing and Distribution