---
kind: "section"
citation: "4 U.S.C. § 144"
title: "4"
title_heading: "Flag and Seal, Seat of Government, and the States"
number: "144"
heading: "Cooperation of departments and agencies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/4/144"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Official Territorial Papers"
---

# §144. Cooperation of departments and agencies


The heads of the several executive departments and independent agencies and establishments shall cooperate with the Archivist in the work prescribed by [section 141 of this title](/usc/4/141.md) by permitting access to any records deemed by him to be necessary to the completion of such work.


## Source credit

(Added Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, § 12, 65 Stat. 714; amended Pub. L. 98–497, title I, § 107(f), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2292.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1984—Pub. L. 98–497 substituted “Archivist” for “Administrator”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1984 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 98–497 effective Apr. 1, 1985, see section 301 of Pub. L. 98–497, set out as a note under section 2102 of Title 44, Public Printing and Documents.

### Similar Provisions; Repeal; Saving Clause; Delegation of Functions; Transfer of Property and Personnel

See note preceding section 141 of this title.