NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 213

HOUSE BILL 323

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO PROVIDE FOR THE DUPLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ENROLLED AND RATIFIED LAWS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS FOR THE USE AND BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND CERTAIN DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES OF STATE GOVERNMENT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 120-22 is amended by designating the Section as it now reads as subsection (a) and by adding a new subsection (b) to read as follows: .

"(b)      The General Assembly is authorized to provide for the duplication and limited distribution of copies of enrolled and ratified laws and joint resolutions of the General Assembly. The Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate are authorized to jointly promulgate rules and regulations to govern the duplication and distribution of current laws and joint resolutions of the General Assembly during and immediately after the biennial and any special sessions of the General Assembly, by jointly executed and signed order which shall be spread upon the Journal of the respective Houses. The Enrolling Office, under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of State, shall furnish the General Assembly with a suitable and conformed copy of all laws and joint resolutions of the General Assembly, which shall show the Chapter number of any law or the number of any joint resolution in conformity with the number assigned to the enactment for the purposes of printing and publication of the session laws. Details concerning the duplication of the laws and joint resolutions, the number of copies of each enactment to be duplicated, and the distribution of same shall be as ordered by the presiding officers of the House and Senate, but distribution of 1 the duplications shall be restricted to the officers and members of the General Assembly, the office of the Secretary of State, the Enrolling Office, the Attorney General, the Institute of Government, and such other officers, departments, and agencies of State government as the rules and regulations shall provide. The cost and expenses of printing, duplication, and distribution shall be paid out of funds appropriated to the General Assembly as in case of the cost and expenses of printing of bills upon introduction."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of April, 1963.