Title 44, Public Printing and DocumentsRelease 119-102

§738 Binding of Publications for Distribution to Libraries

Title 44 › CHAPTER 7 — CONGRESSIONAL PRINTING AND BINDING › § 738

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Director of the Government Publishing Office must give the Superintendent of Documents enough unbound copies so they can be bound and sent to State libraries and other official depositories for their permanent files. Large publications about one subject must be bound on their own and given a subject title; other works are sent unbound as soon as printed. Library editions and all bound sets of congressional numbered documents and reports must be put into volumes and bound the way the Joint Committee on Printing requires.

Full Legal Text

Title 44, §738

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The Director of the Government Publishing Office shall supply the Superintendent of Documents with sufficient copies of publications distributed in unbound form, to be bound and distributed to the State libraries and other designated depositories for their permanent files. Every publication of sufficient size on any one subject shall be bound separately and receive the title suggested by the subject of the volume, and the others shall be distributed in unbound form as soon as printed. The library edition, as well as all other bound sets of congressional numbered documents and reports, shall be arranged in volumes and bound in the manner directed by the Joint Committee on Printing.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 143 (Jan. 15, 1908, No. 3, § 2, 35 Stat. 566).

Editorial Notes

Amendments

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

Reference

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Citation

44 U.S.C. § 738

Title 44, Public Printing and Documents

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102