---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 517"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "517"
heading: "Purchase of paper in open market"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/517"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Production and Procurement of Printing and Binding"
---

# §517. Purchase of paper in open market


The Joint Committee on Printing may authorize the Director of the Government Publishing Office to purchase paper in open market when they consider the quantity required so small or the want so immediate as not to justify advertisement for proposals.


## 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., § 13 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 11, 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”.