---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 2113"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "2113"
heading: "Depository for agreements between States"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/2113"
units:
  - "Chapter 21 — National Archives and Records Administration"
---

# §2113. Depository for agreements between States


The [Archivist](/usc/44/2101.md?p=3) may receive duplicate originals or authenticated copies of agreements or compacts entered into under the Constitution and laws of the United States, between States of the Union, and take necessary actions for their preservation and [servicing](/usc/44/2901.md?p=9).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1290, § 2109; renumbered § 2113 and amended Pub. L. 98–497, title I, §§ 102(a)(1), 107(a)(7), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2280, 2286.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 397(h) (June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title V, § 507, as added Sept. 5, 1950, ch. 849, § 6(d), 64 Stat. 583, and amended July 12, 1952, ch. 703, § 1(o), (p), 66 Stat. 594; July 12, 1955, ch. 329, 69 Stat. 297; Aug. 12, 1955, ch. 859, 69 Stat. 695; July 3, 1956, ch. 513, § 4, 70 Stat. 494; June 13, 1957, Pub. L. 85–51, 71 Stat. 69; Mar. 15, 1958, Pub. L. 85–341, § 1(1), 72 Stat. 34).

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 2113 was renumbered section 2117 of this title.

### Amendments

1984—Pub. L. 98–497, § 107(a)(7), substituted “Archivist” for “Administrator of General Services”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1984 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 98–497 effective Apr. 1, 1985, see section 301 of Pub. L. 98–497, set out as a note under section 2102 of this title.