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[CITE: 44USC505]

 
                 TITLE 44--PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS
 
      CHAPTER 5--PRODUCTION AND PROCUREMENT OF PRINTING AND BINDING
 
Sec. 505. Sale of duplicate plates

    The Public Printer shall sell, under regulations of the Joint 
Committee on Printing to persons who may apply, additional or duplicate 
stereotype or electrotype plates from which a Government publication is 
printed, at a price not to exceed the cost of composition, the metal, 
and making to the Government, plus 10 per centum, and the full amount of 
the price shall be paid when the order is filed.

(Pub. L. 90-620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1244; Pub. L. 94-553, 
Sec. 105(a)(1), Oct. 19, 1976, 90 Stat. 2599.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., Sec. 58 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, 
Sec. 52, 28 Stat. 608).


                               Amendments

    1976--Pub. L. 94-553 struck out provision that a publication could 
not be copyrighted if it was reprinted from additional or duplicate 
plates purchased from the Government from which Government publications 
had been printed or if it was reprinted from other Government 
publications.


                    Effective Date of 1976 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 94-553 effective Jan. 1, 1978, see section 102 
of Pub. L. 94-553, set out as an Effective Date note preceding section 
101 of Title 17, Copyrights.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 22 section 3714b; title 35 
section 2; title 39 section 405.
