Chapter 522
2004 -- H 8634
SUBSTITUTE A
Enacted 07/07/04
A N A C T
RELATING
TO STATUTES AND STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION -- PUBLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ACTS
Introduced
By: Representatives Murphy, and Fox
Date
Introduced: June 09, 2004
It
is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
SECTION
1. Section 43-2-5 of the General Laws in Chapter 43-2 entitled
"Publication
and
Distribution of Acts" is hereby amended to read as follows:
43-2-5.
Distribution of copies of proceedings. -- The secretary of state
joint committee
on
legislative services
shall, as soon as possible after publication of the public laws, acts of a
local
and private nature, and resolutions as provided in section 22-11-3.3, transmit
bound copies
to
each of the following officers, libraries, or societies. The copies shall be
transmitted by the
recipients
to their successors in office:
(1) One copy each to the governor, lieutenant governor, justices of the
supreme, superior,
family
and district courts, general treasurer, state controller, the director of each
department,
administrator
of the division of public utilities and carriers, tax administrator, director
of business
regulation,
the several town and city clerks, the several boards of canvassers and
registration, the
several
probate courts where the clerk of the court is other than the town clerk, the
several clerks
of
the supreme, superior, family and district courts, reporter of opinions of the
supreme court, the
several
sheriffs, adjutant general, state judge advocate general, the division of
occupational
safety,
the library of any accredited institution of higher education in the state of
Rhode Island,
Redwood
Library and Athenaeum, the people's library, Newport, Providence Athenaeum,
Providence
Public Library, Pawtucket Free Public Library, any other incorporated library
in the
state
or any library in the state receiving state aid that may apply therefor, the
social law library at
Boston,
Massachusetts, the New York Public Library, in New York, the library of the
Worcester
County
Bar Association, Massachusetts, the library of the Johns Hopkins University,
Maryland,
the
library at Cornell University, New York, the law schools at Cambridge and
Boston in
Massachusetts,
at New York and at Albany in New York, at New Haven in Connecticut, the
library
of the University of West Virginia, in West Virginia, the bar library in
Chicago, in Illinois,
the
library of the law school of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the
state libraries of
the
several states, the senate committees on judiciary, finance and corporations,
the committees
on
judiciary, finance and corporations of the house of representatives, the
legislative council and
the
house finance committee advisory staff, each member of the general assembly,
the associate
justice
of the supreme court of the United States assigned to the first circuit, each
district judge of
the
United States for the district of Rhode Island, the United States district
attorney for the district
of
Rhode Island, the United States marshal, the referee in bankruptcy for the
district of Rhode
Island,
and the clerk of the United States district court;
(2) Four (4) copies to the secretary of state of the United States;
(3) Two (2) copies each to the state library, the state law library, the
secretary of state,
the
attorney-general, each of the assistant attorneys-general the public
defender, the legal aid
society
of Rhode Island, the Rhode Island historical society, the Newport historical
society, and
the
warden's court at New Shoreham.
(4) The secretary of state shall keep two (2) copies for the use of his or her
office.
SECTION
2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
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