Title 46, Printing Laws

Each member of the legislative assembly, constitutional officer of the state, and judge of the supreme and district courts for the use of their respective offices and departments is entitled to receive from the state a copy of any publication of the laws of the state and of any c…

The state libraries shall receive copies of the session laws, compilations, or codifications as follows: 1. The supreme court law library, five copies. 2. The law library of the state university and the school of mines, fifty copies. 3. The library in each state institution of hi…

The legislative council shall distribute as provided in sections 46-04-01 and 46-04-02 the publication of any session laws, compilations, or codifications, and copies of those documents, as soon as practicable. The legislative council shall furnish to the legislative assembly add…

Except as otherwise provided by law, each copy of laws, compilations, or codifications furnished to any officer, department, or agency of the state, or to the legislative assembly, its officers, or committees is the property of the state and must be surrendered to the legislative…

The board of county commissioners of each county, immediately after the publication of any session laws, codes, or compilations, shall cause a copy thereof to be furnished to the following county officers upon request: 1. Auditor. 2. State's attorney. 3. Ex officio clerk of court…

All session laws, compilations, and codifications distributed under sections 46-04-01 to 46-04-04, except those issued to a member of the legislative assembly through service, must be bound in some distinctive and unusual color, and must be marked plainly in large letters on the …

Each copy of laws, compilations, or codifications distributed by a county or other municipality forever must remain the property thereof, and, at the end of an officer's term, must be delivered by each officer to that officer's successor.

The legislative council may distribute copies of all laws passed by each legislative assembly and all compilations or codifications of laws passed by each legislative assembly: 1. In exchange for like publications of other states. 2. To replace copies lost or damaged in official …

Copies of the permanent journal must be distributed in accordance with the rules of the senate and house of representatives of the state of North Dakota.

As soon as the laws of each session of the legislative assembly are printed and ready for distribution, the legislative council shall forward the laws to which each county is entitled to the county auditor of the county.

The county auditor shall deliver such publications to such persons and institutions as are entitled to receive them, when requested so to do, and shall take receipts therefor and file the same in the county auditor's office subject to inspection.

Whenever any person is elected to fill any of the county, township, or district offices in this state, such person, before taking possession of the office, shall procure from the county auditor of that person's county a copy of the receipts filed with such auditor by the outgoing…

All copies of the journals, executive documents, and laws which are not distributed under this title must be preserved in the office of the secretary of state, subject to distribution as provided by law or rules of the senate and house of representatives.

During the biennium immediately after publication, the legislative council shall sell copies of the session laws for the cost of publication and handling plus ten percent. In subsequent bienniums, the legislative council may determine and set a price for the copies of the session…

The legislative council may dispose of all volumes of the laws that are ten or more years old, except one volume of each, which must be retained for historical purposes.