---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 513"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "513"
heading: "Comparison of paper and envelopes with standard quality"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/513"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Production and Procurement of Printing and Binding"
---

# §513. Comparison of paper and envelopes with standard quality


The Director of the Government Publishing Office shall compare every lot of paper and envelopes delivered by a contractor with the standard of quality fixed upon by the Joint Committee on Printing, and may not accept paper or envelopes which do not conform to it in every particular. A lot of delivered paper or envelopes which does not conform to the standard of quality may be accepted by the Committee at a discount that in its opinion is sufficient to protect the interests of the Government.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1245; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(c)(1), Dec. 16, 2014, 128 Stat. 2537.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 9 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 7, 28 Stat. 602; June 20, 1936, ch. 630, title VIII, § 13, 49 Stat. 1553).

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2014—Pub. L. 113–235 substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer”.