---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 1913"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "1913"
heading: "Appropriations for supplying depository libraries; restriction"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/1913"
units:
  - "Chapter 19 — Depository Library Program"
---

# §1913. Appropriations for supplying depository libraries; restriction


Appropriations available for the Office of Superintendent of Documents may not be used to supply depository libraries documents, books, or other printed matter not requested by them, and their requests shall be subject to approval by the Superintendent of Documents.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1286.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 85a (June 27, 1956, ch. 453, § 101, 70 Stat. 369).