44 USC § 738 - Binding of publications for distribution to libraries

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identifier: "/us/usc/t44/s738"
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title: "44 USC § 738 - Binding of publications for distribution to libraries"
title_number: 44
title_name: "PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS"
section_number: "738"
section_name: "Binding of publications for distribution to libraries"
chapter_number: 7
chapter_name: "CONGRESSIONAL PRINTING AND BINDING"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2025-02-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1254; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(c)(1), Dec. 16, 2014, 128 Stat. 2537.)"
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# § 738. Binding of publications for distribution to libraries

The Director of the Government Publishing Office shall supply the Superintendent of Documents with sufficient copies of publications distributed in unbound form, to be bound and distributed to the State libraries and other designated depositories for their permanent files. Every publication of sufficient size on any one subject shall be bound separately and receive the title suggested by the subject of the volume, and the others shall be distributed in unbound form as soon as printed. The library edition, as well as all other bound sets of congressional numbered documents and reports, shall be arranged in volumes and bound in the manner directed by the Joint Committee on Printing.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1254; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(c)(1), Dec. 16, 2014, 128 Stat. 2537.)

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 143 (, No. 3, § 2, ).

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2014— substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer”.