---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 1105"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "1105"
heading: "Form and style of work for departments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/1105"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Executive and Judiciary Printing and Binding"
---

# §1105. Form and style of work for departments


The Director of the Government Publishing Office shall determine the form and style in which the printing or binding ordered by a department is executed, and the material and the size of type used, having proper regard to economy, workmanship, and the purposes for which the work is needed.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1261; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(c)(1), Dec. 16, 2014, 128 Stat. 2537.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 216 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 51, 28 Stat. 608).

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2014—Pub. L. 113–235 substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer”.