§ 43-2-1. Numbering of public laws. All acts of a public nature shall be numbered as chapters, continuously in the order of their passage commencing with the first act passed in the January session of each year and continuing to the end of the year. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 22, § 1; G.L. 1909, […]
§ 43-2-2. References to public laws amended or repealed. Every act amending or repealing a public law shall, immediately preceding the public law to be amended or repealed, refer to the law by the number and name of the chapter containing the law amended or repealed, and to the year of its passage; provided, that […]
§ 43-2-2.1. Assignment of official section number of general laws. When an act of a general and permanent nature passed by the general assembly becomes a law and is filed with the secretary of state, the law revision director of the joint committee on legislative services shall examine the act and, if as enacted it […]
§ 43-2-3. Deposit and safekeeping of original acts, resolutions, and proceedings. The original acts, resolutions, and other proceedings of the general assembly shall be deposited and safely kept in the office of the department of state and shall not be removed from that office except upon the order of the general assembly or upon process […]
§ 43-2-4. Repealed. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 22, § 4; G.L. 1909, ch. 28, § 4; P.L. 1921, ch. 2050, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 28, § 4; G.L. 1938, ch. 307, § 4; P.L. 1956, ch. 3704, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 43-2-4; P.L. 1970, ch. 55, § 1; Repealed by P.L. 1972, […]
§ 43-2-5. Distribution of copies of proceedings. The 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 § 22-11-3.3, transmit bound copies to each of the following officers, libraries, or societies. The copies shall be transmitted […]
§ 43-2-6. Repealed. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 22, § 8; G.L. 1909, ch. 28, §§ 6, 8; P.L. 1921, ch. 2050, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 28, § 6; G.L. 1938, ch. 307, § 6; P.L. 1944, ch. 1456, § 1; P.L. 1954, ch. 3279, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 43-2-6; Repealed by P.L. […]
§ 43-2-7. Distribution of public laws. The secretary of state shall retain the residue of the bound and unbound copies of the public laws and of the proceedings of the general assembly in his or her office for sale at the actual cost, except as provided in this chapter. History of Section.G.L. 1909, ch. 28, […]
§ 43-2-8. Distribution of official documents by governor. The governor may transmit to the executive departments of the several states, to the executive departments of the United States, to the senators and representatives in congress, to the agents of foreign countries in the United States authorized to make exchanges for the documents, to the libraries, […]
§ 43-2-9. Exchanges by secretary of state. The secretary of state may in his or her discretion transmit copies of acts, resolutions and reports published by him or her to any state, territory, province, or country which extends a similar privilege to the state library and, upon recommendation of the state librarian, he or she […]
