43 U.S.C. § 45 — Production and sale of copies of photographs and records; disposition of receipts

submitted 117 years ago by ch. 299 to r/title-43-PUBLIC-LANDS · 128 words · no verdicts yet

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The Director of the U.S. Geological Survey may sell copies of aerial photographs and records. Interested people, businesses, and institutions can buy them. Money from the sales goes to the Treasury to cover the cost of making copies.

Since March 4, 1909, the Director of the United States Geological Survey has been allowed to produce and sell certain materials to interested people, businesses, and institutions. These materials are: copies of aerial or other photographs and mosaics made during the Survey's official work, and photographic or photostatic copies of records officially kept by the Director. These sales must be "reimbursable," meaning the Director sells them on a cost-recovery basis. The Secretary of the Interior must approve the prices the Director sets, and the price can never be lower than the estimated cost of making that copy or reproduction. Money collected from these sales goes into the U.S. Treasury, credited to whichever appropriation is currently paying for the cost of furnishing these copies or reproductions.

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The Director of the United States Geological Survey on and after March 4, 1909 may produce and sell on a reimbursable basis to interested persons, concerns, and institutions, copies of aerial or other photographs and mosaics that have been obtained in connection with the authorized work of the United States Geological Survey and photographic or photostatic reproductions of records in the official custody of the Director at such prices (not less than the estimated cost of furnishing such copies or reproductions) as the Director, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, may determine, the money received from such sales to be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation then current and chargeable for the cost of furnishing copies or reproductions as herein authorized.

Source credit: (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 299, 35 Stat. 989; July 21, 1947, ch. 273, 61 Stat. 398.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1909Enacted · Act of Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 299 · 35 Stat. 989
1947Amended · Act of July 21, 1947, ch. 273 · 61 Stat. 398

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