---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 1106"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "1106"
heading: "Inserting “compliments” forbidden"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/1106"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Executive and Judiciary Printing and Binding"
---

# §1106. Inserting “compliments” forbidden


A report, document, or publication distributed by or from an executive department or independent agency or establishment of the Government may not contain a notice that it is sent with “the compliments” of an officer of the Government, or with a special notice that it is so sent, except that notice that it has been sent, with a request for an acknowledgment of its receipt, may be given.


## 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., § 218 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 73, 28 Stat. 620).