43 U.S.C. § 44 — Sale of transfers or copies of data

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The Geological Survey's Director must sell copies of its map data to any buyer. Buyers must prepay the full cost plus 10%, and it can't interfere with regular Survey work. The money collected goes to the U.S. Treasury.

The Director of the U.S. Geological Survey must furnish transfers or copies of any cartographic, engraved, or lithographic data held by the Survey's division of engraving and printing. This is available to any person, business, institution, state, or foreign government that asks. The buyer must pay the entire cost in advance, plus an extra 10%. The Director only has to do this if it doesn't get in the way of the Survey's regular map work. Whatever money the Director collects this way must be deposited in the U.S. Treasury.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

The Director of the United States Geological Survey shall, if the regular map work of the Survey is in no wise interfered with thereby, furnish to any person, concern, institution, State or foreign government, that shall pay in advance the whole cost thereof with 10 per centum added, transfers or copies of any cartographic or other engraved or lithographic data in the division of engraving and printing of the Survey, and the moneys received by the Director for such transfers or copies shall be deposited in the Treasury.

Source credit: (June 30, 1906, ch. 3914, 34 Stat. 727; Pub. L. 102–154, title I, Nov. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1000.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1906Enacted · Act of June 30, 1906, ch. 3914 · 34 Stat. 727
1991Amended · Pub. L. 102-154 · 105 Stat. 1000

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 3914 on 1906-06-30.

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