Title 46 — Printing Laws

The authority to purchase and supervise all printing for the various state departments and agencies is vested in the state office of management and budget.

The office of management and budget shall: 1. Bid all printing requisitions as requested and let all contracts. 2. Determine the price of any legal notice or publication when requested by any state agency or department, or by any political subdivision. Its decision on the proper …

Repealed by S.L. 1959, ch. 372, § 117.

The office of management and budget shall have charge of all the printing required to be done for all state agencies except as otherwise provided by section 46-02-09.

Unconstitutional.

Repealed by S.L. 1987, ch. 547, § 11.

The printing of the state is divided into the following classes: 1. The printing of bills and resolutions of the legislative assembly constitutes the first class. However, certain bills and resolutions may be excepted from this class, as directed by officers of the legislative as…

If the legislative assembly requests the office of management and budget to invite bids for printing materials in classifications 1, 2, and 4, the office of management and budget shall award the contract for classifications 1, 2, and 4 of printing to the lowest bidder, subject to…

Each proposal for classifications 1, 2, and 4 of state printing let under competitive bids must be in writing, sealed, and addressed to the office of management and budget. The office of management and budget may reject any bid made by anyone other than a regularly established an…

No bids may be received after the hour specified in the published notice. No bid may be changed after the same has been received. 46-02-09. Printing classifications 3 and 6 - Procured by the office of management and budget - Exceptions. All state printing in classifications 3 and…

Repealed by S.L. 1987, ch. 547, § 11.

The office of management and budget may reject any and all printing that is not done in a workmanlike manner or with good material and with ordinary promptness. It may require contractors to present specimen pages of type they propose to use, and may reject the same in its discre…

Repealed by S.L. 1987, ch. 547, § 11.

Repealed by S.L. 1997, ch. 386, § 1.

If practicable, all state, county, and other political subdivision public printing, binding, and blank book manufacturing, blanks, and other printed stationery must be awarded to a resident North Dakota bidder as defined in section 44-08-02.

Repealed by S.L. 1975, ch. 106, § 673.

All printed forms for acknowledging the receipt of cash, and for warrants, checks, or other orders for the payment or disbursement of funds supplied to municipalities, as defined by chapter 21-03, must be serially numbered by the printer, and no printer may furnish any unnumbered…

Repealed by S.L. 1987, ch. 547, § 11. 46-02-19. Unlawful for public officials to place name on public documents in large-size type - Penalty. Repealed by S.L. 1997, ch. 386, § 1.

Repealed by S.L. 2023, ch. 402, § 2.

All regular messages from the governor and all inaugural messages of the governor-elect must be printed in pamphlet form.

Repealed by S.L. 1963, ch. 346, § 73.

Repealed by S.L. 1951, ch. 275, § 17.

Repealed by omission from this code.

The printing or reproduction of legislative bills, resolutions, and journals must be in accordance with the rules of the senate and house of representatives of the state of North Dakota. 46-03-06. Calendar of bills and resolutions - Contents - Synopsis - Edited by clerk - Copies …

Repealed by S.L. 1959, ch. 327, § 7.

Repealed by S.L. 1959, ch. 327, § 7.

Repealed by S.L. 1951, ch. 275, § 17.

In arranging the laws, memorials, and resolutions for publication, the legislative council shall make such corrections in orthography, grammatical construction, and punctuation of the same as in its judgment are proper. When any law published in the code contains a reference to c…

The legislative council shall correct ministerial or clerical errors and supervise the publication of the session laws and pocket part supplements to this code in a manner and form prescribed by the legislative council, correlating each year's laws with this code.

The Constitution of North Dakota must be published in a format that will correlate and integrate all constitutional provisions in a numbering arrangement that avoids ambiguity and duplication and that aids in placing constitutional amendments into the constitution. The Constituti…

The legislative council may establish specifications for publication of this code and contract with a publisher with respect to editorial, information processing, and publication services. The legislative council may continue any agreement with the publisher and may contract for …

Repealed by S.L. 1951, ch. 275, § 17.

Repealed by S.L. 1951, ch. 275, § 17. 46-03-14. Official and authenticated edition of session laws - How printed - Classification. Repealed by S.L. 1951, ch. 275, § 17.

All laws contained in the session laws must be printed or published with the word "approved" and the date of approval and with the word "filed" and the date of filing. In each authenticated volume of the session laws there must be a general certificate made by the secretary of st…

Repealed by S.L. 1951, ch. 275, § 17. 46-03-17. Authority to increase number of session laws, journals, and other material printed vested in state publication and printing commission. Repealed by S.L. 1951, ch. 275, § 17.

The secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the house shall furnish journal copy for their respective houses and copies of legislative documents to the printer of the legislative documents or daily journals. A contractor is not accountable under section 46-02-10 for any de…

All laws, journals, and documents printed and published by central duplicating services of the office of management and budget or any contractor under this title, and duly certified by the secretary of state and the legislative council as provided in section 46-03-15 or rules of …

Any statute "Omitted" from this code accompanied by a note stating the statute was "Omitted as a statute not of a general and permanent nature" or a note stating the statute was "Not repealed but omitted as a statute not of a general and permanent nature" may not be construed as …

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…

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…

Repealed by S.L. 1951, ch. 275, § 17.

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 …

Repealed by S.L. 1963, ch. 346, § 73.

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.

Repealed by S.L. 1963, ch. 346, § 73.

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.