39 U.S.C. § 405 — Printing of illustrations of United States postage stamps
submitted 56 years ago by Pub. L. 91-375 to r/title-39-POSTAL-SERVICE · 98 words · no verdicts yet
The Postal Service may ask the Government Publishing Office to print pictures of U.S. stamps for sale. These prints can include historical and philatelic facts about the stamps. The printing plates used cannot be sold or given away separately.
(a) When the Postal Service asks, the Director of the Government Publishing Office must print black-and-white or color pictures of United States postage stamps. These are sold to the public as a public document, through the Superintendent of Documents. The Postal Service can choose to add descriptive, historical, and philatelic information about the stamps.
(b) Even though section 505 of title 44 normally applies, the stereotype or electrotype plates — or copies of them — used to make these printed pictures cannot be sold or given away in any other way.
When requested by the Postal Service, the Director of the Government Publishing Office shall print, as a public document for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, illustrations in black and white or in color of postage stamps of the United States, together with such descriptive, historical, and philatelic information with regard to the stamps as the Postal Service deems suitable.
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 505 of title 44, stereotype or electrotype plates, or duplicates thereof, used in the publications authorized to be printed by this section may not be sold or otherwise disposed of.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 91–375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 724; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(d), Dec. 16, 2014, 128 Stat. 2537.)
- 1970Enacted · Pub. L. 91-375 · 84 Stat. 724
- 2014Amended · Pub. L. 113-235 · 128 Stat. 2537
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