---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 1720"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "1720"
heading: "Documents not needed by departments to be turned over to Superintendent of Documents"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/1720"
units:
  - "Chapter 17 — Distribution and Sale of Public Documents"
---

# §1720. Documents not needed by departments to be turned over to Superintendent of Documents


Public documents accumulating in the several executive departments, bureaus, and offices, not needed for official use, shall be turned over to the Superintendent of Documents annually for distribution or sale.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1282.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 78 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 67, 28 Stat. 611).