---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 1118"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "1118"
heading: "Documents beyond scope of ordinary departmental business"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/1118"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Executive and Judiciary Printing and Binding"
---

# §1118. Documents beyond scope of ordinary departmental business


A book or document not having to do with the ordinary business transactions of the executive departments may not be printed on the requisition of a department unless expressly authorized by Congress.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1264.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 219a (Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1484, § 1, 33 Stat. 1249).