---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 1704"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "1704"
heading: "Superintendent of Documents: pay of employees for night, Sunday, holiday, and overtime work"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/1704"
units:
  - "Chapter 17 — Distribution and Sale of Public Documents"
---

# §1704. Superintendent of Documents: pay of employees for night, Sunday, holiday, and overtime work


Employees in the office of the Superintendent of Documents may be paid for night, Sunday, holiday, and overtime work at rates not in excess of the rates of additional pay for this work allowed other employees of the Government Publishing Office under [section 305 of this title](/usc/44/305.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1279; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(b), Dec. 16, 2014, 128 Stat. 2537.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 75 (Mar. 4, 1925, ch. 549, § 1, 43 Stat. 1300; May 13, 1926, ch. 294, § 1, 44 Stat. 552; Feb. 23, 1927, ch. 166, 44 Stat. 1160).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

“Government Publishing Office” substituted for “Government Printing Office” in text on authority of section 1301(b) of Pub. L. 113–235, set out as a note preceding section 301 of this title.