---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 1104"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "1104"
heading: "Restrictions on use of illustrations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/1104"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Executive and Judiciary Printing and Binding"
---

# §1104. Restrictions on use of illustrations


Appropriations made for printing and binding may not be used for an illustration, engraving, or photograph in a document or report ordered printed by Congress unless the order to print expressly authorizes it, nor in a document or report of an executive department, independent office or establishment of the Government until the head of the executive department or Government establishment certifies in a letter transmitting the report that the illustration, engraving, or photograph is necessary and relates entirely to the transaction of public business.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1261.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 118 (Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1483, § 1, 33 Stat. 1213).

The term “executive department, independent office, or establishment of the Government” is substituted for “executive department or other Government establishment” for uniformity.