The Joint Committee on Printing may permit the Director of the Government Publishing Office to authorize an executive department, independent office, or establishment of the Government to purchase direct for its use such printing, binding, and blank-book work, otherwise authorized by law, as the Government Publishing Office is not able or suitably equipped to execute or as may be more economically or in the better interest of the Government executed elsewhere.
Pub. L. 90–62082 Stat. 1243Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(b)128 Stat. 2537(, , ; , (c)(1), , .)
Historical and Revision Notes
Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 1228 Stat. 602July 8, 1935, ch. 374, § 149 Stat. 475Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 654, § 3(10)65 Stat. 708Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 14 (, ; , ; , ).
Editorial Notes
Amendments
Pub. L. 113–235, § 1301(c)(1)2014—, substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
section 1301(b) of Pub. L. 113–235section 301 of this title“Government Publishing Office” substituted for “Government Printing Office” in text on authority of , set out as a note preceding .