PRINTER'S NO. 16
No. 12 Session of 1985
INTRODUCED BY SAURMAN, BOYES, BUNT, STEVENS, GREENWOOD, MAIALE,
HALUSKA, BOWSER, PERZEL, CIMINI, DORR, PISTELLA, CIVERA,
ARTY, SWEET, E. Z. TAYLOR, HERSHEY, FISCHER, FLICK, ANGSTADT,
MERRY, SHOWERS, SEMMEL, CORNELL, MARKOSEK, SCHULER, BOOK,
GODSHALL, COWELL, CLYMER, WOGAN, SIRIANNI, J. L. WRIGHT,
TELEK, BATTISTO, MICOZZIE AND WESTON, JANUARY 23, 1985
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JANUARY 23, 1985
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 1 (General Provisions) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, providing for the distribution of
3 certain publications; making editorial changes; and making
4 appropriations.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Section 501 of Title 1 of the Pennsylvania
8 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
9 § 501. Publication and distribution.
10 (a) General rule.--The Legislative Reference Bureau may
11 compile, edit, publish, print, supplement and revise or contract
12 directly or through the Legislative Printing Clerk for the
13 compilation, editing, publishing, printing, supplementation or
14 revision of an official publication of the Pennsylvania
15 Consolidated Statutes and amendments thereto. It shall be the
16 duty of the Department of [Property and Supplies] General
17 Services, upon request of the bureau, to arrange for the prompt
1 distribution of the official publication and the supplements
2 thereto and revisions thereof in accordance with the provisions
3 of this chapter. [This publication shall be in addition to the
4 publication of advance copies of statutes and the Laws of
5 Pennsylvania except that the bureau, when authorized by
6 concurrent resolution of the General Assembly, may reduce the
7 number of such statutes and laws published and printed and
8 provide for the manner of their distribution and a fee to be
9 charged for certain distributions.]
10 (b) Sale and distribution.--The prices to be charged for
11 individual copies of and subscriptions to the official
12 publication, the supplements thereto and revisions thereof, for
13 reprints and bound volumes thereof, which prices may be fixed
14 without reference to the restrictions placed upon and fixed for
15 the sale of other publications of the Commonwealth, and the
16 number of copies which shall be distributed free for official
17 use shall be established by the bureau. Without limiting the
18 generality of the foregoing, the bureau may provide for the free
19 [reciprocal]:
20 (1) Reciprocal exchange of publications between this
21 Commonwealth and other states and foreign jurisdictions [and
22 for the free distribution].
23 (2) Distribution of at least one copy of every
24 publication printed under authority of this chapter to each:
25 [(1)] (i) County for the use of its law library.
26 [(2)] (ii) Member of the General Assembly [at the
27 post office address specified by him].
28 [(3)] (iii) Law school library which pursuant to
29 rules of court receives copies of printed briefs and
30 records filed in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
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1 (3) Distribution of copies of the permanent editions and
2 cumulative supplements of Titles 18 (relating to crimes and
3 offenses) and 75 (relating to vehicles) to municipal
4 corporations for members of their police departments.
5 (c) Payments and disposition of moneys.--Payments for
6 documents published by authority of this chapter shall be made
7 to the Department of [Property and Supplies] General Services
8 which shall pay the same into the State Treasury to the credit
9 of the General Fund. Such moneys are hereby appropriated from
10 the General Fund to the Legislative Reference Bureau to carry
11 out the provisions of this chapter.
12 Section 2. The following sums are hereby specifically
13 appropriated to the following agencies to carry out the purposes
14 of 1 Pa.C.S. § 501(b)(3) (relating to publication and
15 distribution) as added by this act:
16 (1) Legislative Reference Bureau, $84,000.
17 (2) Department of General Services, $80,000.
18 Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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