---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 514"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "514"
heading: "Determination of quality of paper"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/514"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Production and Procurement of Printing and Binding"
---

# §514. Determination of quality of paper


The Joint Committee on Printing shall determine differences of opinion between the Director of the Government Publishing Office and a contractor for paper respecting the paper’s quality; and the decision of the Committee is final as to the United States.


## 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., § 10 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 8, 28 Stat. 602; Mar. 3, 1917, ch. 163, § 6, 39 Stat. 1121).

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

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