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[CITE: 44USC1702]

 
                 TITLE 44--PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS
 
          CHAPTER 17--DISTRIBUTION AND SALE OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS
 
Sec. 1702. Superintendent of Documents; sale of documents

    The Public Printer shall appoint a competent person to act as 
Superintendent of Documents who shall be under the control of the Public 
Printer.
    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 Public Printer on the first day of each month and be 
covered into the Treasury monthly.
    The Superintendent of Documents shall also report monthly to the 
Public Printer 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.

(Pub. L. 90-620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1279.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., Secs. 71, 73 (part) (Jan. 12, 1895, 
ch. 23, Sec. 61, 28 Stat. 610; June 25, 1910, ch. 384, Sec. 1, 36 Stat. 
770; Aug. 7, 1946, ch. 770, Sec. 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.


                            Cross References

    Copyrights, catalog of entries; distribution and sale, see section 
707 of Title 17, Copyrights.
    Economic Indicators, distribution, see section 1025 of Title 15, 
Commerce and Trade.
    Prices for sales copies of publication, cost basis plus 50 percent 
and discounts, see section 1708 of this title.
    Printing of reentry permits and blank forms of manifest and crew 
lists; sale to public, see section 1352 of Title 8, Aliens and 
Nationality.
    Reprinting of documents required for sale, see section 1707 of this 
title.
    Senate Service Department and House Publications Distribution 
Service, see section 740 of this title.
    United States Statutes at Large, distribution, see section 728 of 
this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 4102 of this title; title 28 
section 594.
