---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 U.S.C. § 6304"
title: "41"
title_heading: "Public Contracts"
number: "6304"
heading: "Certain contracts limited to one-year term"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/41/6304"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Other Advertising and Contract Provisions"
  - "Chapter 63 — General Contract Provisions"
---

# §6304. Certain contracts limited to one-year term


Except as otherwise provided, an executive department shall not make a contract for stationery or other supplies for a term longer than one year from the time the contract is made.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–350, § 3, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3804.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 6304 | 41:13. | R.S. § 3735. |

The words “an executive department shall not” are substituted for “it shall not be lawful for any of the executive departments to” to state the legal prohibition directly and to eliminate unnecessary words.