---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 1712"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "1712"
heading: "Documents for use of the Director of the Government Publishing Office"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/1712"
units:
  - "Chapter 17 — Distribution and Sale of Public Documents"
---

# §1712. Documents for use of the Director of the Government Publishing Office


The Director of the Government Publishing Office may retain out of all documents, bills, and resolutions printed the number of copies absolutely needful for the official use of the Government Publishing Office, not exceeding five of each.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1281; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(b), (c), Dec. 16, 2014, 128 Stat. 2537.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 81 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 73, 28 Stat. 618).

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2014—Pub. L. 113–235, § 1301(c), substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer” in section catchline and text.

### 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.