44 U.S.C. § 1702 — Superintendent of Documents; sale of documents
submitted 58 years ago by Pub. L. 90-620 to r/title-44-PUBLIC-PRINTING-AND-DOCUMENTS · 229 words · no verdicts yet
The Director appoints and controls the Superintendent of Documents. The Superintendent sells government documents, handles the money and reports, and supervises distribution with stated congressional and executive exceptions.
The Director of the Government Publishing Office shall appoint a competent Superintendent of Documents under the Director’s control. A government officer may turn over documents published for sale, and the Superintendent shall receive and sell them. Sale money must be returned to the Director on the first day of each month and deposited into the Treasury monthly. The Superintendent must report monthly the documents received and their disposition. The Superintendent supervises distribution of public documents and holds documents subject to distribution, except executive departments’ special official-use documents, which go to those departments, and documents for Congress, which go to the Senate Service Department and House Publications Distribution Service for distribution or delivery to Members on order.
The Director of the Government Publishing Office shall appoint a competent person to act as Superintendent of Documents who shall be under the control of the Director of the Government Publishing Office.
When an officer of the Government having in his charge documents published for sale desires to be relieved of them, he may turn them over to the Superintendent of Documents, who shall receive and sell them under this section. Moneys received from the sale of documents shall be returned to the Director of the Government Publishing Office on the first day of each month and be covered into the Treasury monthly.
The Superintendent of Documents shall also report monthly to the Director of the Government Publishing Office the number of documents received by him and the disposition made of them. He shall have general supervision of the distribution of all public documents, and to his custody shall be committed all documents subject to distribution, excepting those printed for the special official use of the executive departments, which shall be delivered to the departments, and those printed for the use of the two Houses of Congress, which shall be delivered to the Senate Service Department and House of Representatives Publications Distribution Service and distributed or delivered ready for distribution to Members upon their order by the superintendents of the Senate Service Department and House Publications Distribution Service, respectively.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1279; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(c)(1), Dec. 16, 2014, 128 Stat. 2537.)
- 1968Enacted · Pub. L. 90-620 · 82 Stat. 1279
- 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.
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