PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

The Director of the Government Publishing Office must pick a qualified person to be the Superintendent of Documents. The Superintendent works under the Director. Government officers can give documents printed for sale to the Superintendent, who will sell them. Money from those sales must be returned to the Director on the first day of each month and deposited into the Treasury each month. The Superintendent must report monthly to the Director how many documents were received and what was done with them. They run the distribution of public documents and keep most of them, except those printed for special official use of executive departments (sent to those departments) and those for Congress (sent to the Senate Service Department and the House of Representatives Publications Distribution Service to be delivered to Members on order).

Title 44, §1702

Public Printing and Documents, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The Director of the Government Publishing Office shall appoint a competent person to act as Superintendent of Documents who shall be under the control of the Director of the Government Publishing Office. When an officer of the Government having in his charge documents published for sale desires to be relieved of them, he may turn them over to the Superintendent of Documents, who shall receive and sell them under this section. Moneys received from the sale of documents shall be returned to the Director of the Government Publishing Office on the first day of each month and be covered into the Treasury monthly. The Superintendent of Documents shall also report monthly to the Director of the Government Publishing Office the number of documents received by him and the disposition made of them. He shall have general supervision of the distribution of all public documents, and to his custody shall be committed all documents subject to distribution, excepting those printed for the special official use of the executive departments, which shall be delivered to the departments, and those printed for the use of the two Houses of Congress, which shall be delivered to the Senate Service Department and House of Representatives Publications Distribution Service and distributed or delivered ready for distribution to Members upon their order by the superintendents of the Senate Service Department and House Publications Distribution Service, respectively.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., §§ 71, 73 (part) (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 61, 28 Stat. 610; June 25, 1910, ch. 384, § 1, 36 Stat. 770; Aug. 7, 1946, ch. 770, § 1(62), 60 Stat. 871). This section incorporates only part of former section 73. The balance will be found in section 308 of the revision. “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.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2014—Pub. L. 113–235 substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer” wherever appearing.

§1702 Superintendent of Documents; Sale of Documents