44 U.S.C. § 504 — Direct purchase of printing, binding, and blank-book work by Government agencies

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This section concerns Direct purchase of printing, binding, and blank-book work by Government agencies. It states the specific rules, duties, limits, and exceptions in the section.

The Joint Committee on Printing may permit the Director of the Government Publishing Office to authorize an executive department, independent office, or establishment of the Government to purchase direct for its use such printing, binding, and blank-book work, otherwise authorized by law, as the Government Publishing Office is not able or suitably equipped to execute or as may be more economically or in the better interest of the Government executed elsewhere.

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The Joint Committee on Printing may permit the Director of the Government Publishing Office to authorize an executive department, independent office, or establishment of the Government to purchase direct for its use such printing, binding, and blank-book work, otherwise authorized by law, as the Government Publishing Office is not able or suitably equipped to execute or as may be more economically or in the better interest of the Government executed elsewhere.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1243; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(b), (c)(1), Dec. 16, 2014, 128 Stat. 2537.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1968Enacted · Pub. L. 90-620 · 82 Stat. 1243
2014Amended · Pub. L. 113-235 · 128 Stat. 2537

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 90-620 on 1968-10-22.