1 U.S.C. § 201 — Publication and distribution of Code of

Page 18 TITLE 1—GENERAL PROVISIONS § 201 1 So in original. Does not conform to section catchline. Sec. (b) Curtailing number of copies pub- lished. (c) Dispensing with publication of more than one Supplement for each Con- gress. 202. Preparation and publication of Codes and Supplements. (a) Cumulative Supplements to Code of Laws of United States for each ses- sion of Congress. (b) Cumulative Supplement to District of Columbia Code for each session of Congress. (c) New editions of Codes and Supple- ments. 203. District of Columbia Code; preparation and publication; cumulative supplements. 204. Codes and Supplements as evidence of the laws of United States and District of Co- lumbia; citation of Codes and Supplements. (a) United States Code. (b) District of Columbia Code. (c) District of Columbia Code; citation. (d) Supplements to Codes; citation. (e) New edition of Codes; citation. 205. Codes and Supplement; where printed; form and style; ancillaries. 206. Bills and resolutions of Committee on the Ju- diciary of House of Representatives; form and style; ancillaries; curtailment of copies. 207. Copies of acts and resolutions in slip form; additional number printed for Committee on the Judiciary of House of Representa- tives. 208. Delegation of function of Committee on the Judiciary to other agencies; printing, etc., under direction of Joint Committee on Printing.1 209. Copies of Supplements to Code of Laws of United States and of District of Columbia Code and Supplements; conclusive evidence of original. 210. Distribution of Supplements to Code of Laws of United States and of District of Columbia Code and Supplements; slip and pamphlet copies. 211. Copies to Members of Congress. 212. Additional distribution at each new Congress. 213. Appropriation for preparing and editing sup- plements. § 201. Publication and distribution of Code of Laws of United States and Supplements and District of Columbia Code and Supplements In order to avoid duplication and waste— (a) Publishing in slip or pamphlet form or in Statutes at Large.—Publication in slip or pam- phlet form or in the Statutes at Large of any of the volumes or publications enumerated in sec- tions 202 and 203 of this title, shall, in event of enactment, be dispensed with whenever the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives so directs the Archivist of the United States; (b) Curtailing number of copies published.— Curtailment of the number provided by law to be printed and distributed of the volumes or publications enumerated in sections 202 and 203 of this title may be directed by such committee, except that the Director of the Government Publishing Office shall print such numbers as are necessary for depository library distribution and for sale; and (c) Dispensing with publication of more than one Supplement for each Congress.—Such com- mittee may direct that the printing and dis- tribution of any supplement to the Code of Laws of the United States or to the Code of the Dis- trict of Columbia be dispensed with entirely, ex- cept that there shall be printed and distributed for each Congress at least one supplement to each such code, containing the legislation of such Congress. (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 637; Sept. 3, 1954, ch. 1263, § 1, 68 Stat. 1226; Pub. L. 98–497, title I, § 107(d), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2291; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(d), Dec. 16, 2014, 128 Stat. 2537.) Editorial Notes AMENDMENTS 1984—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 98–497 substituted ‘‘Archi- vist of the United States’’ for ‘‘Administrator of Gen- eral Services’’. 1954—Subsec. (a). Act Sept. 3, 1954, substituted ‘‘Ad- ministrator of General Services’’ for ‘‘Secretary of State’’. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries CHANGE OF NAME ‘‘Director of the Government Publishing Office’’ sub- stituted for ‘‘Public Printer’’ in subsec. (b) on author- ity of section 1301(d) of Pub. L. 113–235, set out as a note under section 301 of Title 44, Public Printing and Docu- ments. 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 Title 44, Public Printing and Documents. § 202. Preparation and publication of Codes and Supplements There shall be prepared and published under the supervision of the Committee on the Judici- ary of the House of Representatives— (a) Cumulative Supplements to Code of Laws of United States for each session of Congress.— A supplement for each session of the Congress to the then current edition of the Code of Laws of the United States, cumulatively embracing the legislation of the then current supplement, and correcting errors in such edition and supple- ment; (b) Cumulative Supplement to District of Co- lumbia Code for each session of Congress.—A supplement for each session of the Congress to the then current edition of the Code of the Dis- trict of Columbia, cumulatively embracing the legislation of the then current supplement, and correcting errors in such edition and supple- ment; (c) New editions of Codes and Supplements.— New editions of the Code of Laws of the United States and of the Code of the District of Colum- bia, correcting errors and incorporating the then current supplement. In the case of each code new editions shall not be published oftener than once in each five years. Copies of each such edition shall be distributed in the same manner as provided in the case of supplements to the code of which it is a new edition. Supplements published after any new edition shall not con-