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Section 20:1 – Laws.

    20:1 Laws. – I. At the close of a legislative session, the director of legislative services shall cause such number of copies of all the acts and resolves thereof, with an appropriate index, to be printed as the joint committee on legislative facilities shall determine. II. Such acts and resolves shall be numbered consecutively […]

Section 20:1-a – Advance Printing and Distribution of Acts and Resolves.

    20:1-a Advance Printing and Distribution of Acts and Resolves. – During each legislative session the director of legislative services shall provide for the advance printing and distribution of all acts and resolves, together with an index thereof, of such session. Each justice of the supreme, superior, probate, district and municipal courts shall be furnished […]

Section 20:1-b – Index.

    20:1-b Index. – As soon as possible after every final adjournment of a session of the general court and in any case consistently with the schedule of performance set forth in contracts for printing and binding of session laws of the general court, the state librarian shall prepare and furnish the director of legislative […]

Section 20:10 – Distribution of Records.

    20:10 Distribution of Records. – The publications authorized under RSA 20:9 shall be distributed as follows: one copy to each city and town in the state, one copy to such of the public libraries requesting them, 50 copies to the New Hampshire Historical Society, 50 copies to the state library and the remainder to […]

Section 20:11 – Distribution of Publications and Reports.

    20:11 Distribution of Publications and Reports. – One copy of each publication provided for in RSA 20:5, 6, and 7 shall be sent by the agency responsible for its issue, free of charge, to each of the following officers and bodies: governor, each member of the council, each agency and institution of the state, […]

Section 20:11-a – Additional Distribution of the Manual and Session Laws.

    20:11-a Additional Distribution of the Manual and Session Laws. – Upon request of the speaker of the house of representatives or the president of the senate, additional copies of the manual and of the paper bound and hard bound session laws, from any which have not been otherwise distributed under this chapter, shall be […]

Section 20:12 – Distribution Discontinued.

    20:12 Distribution Discontinued. – The secretary of state shall discontinue distribution of books or reports to any free public library when notified by its trustees that they have voted not to receive them. Source. 1933, 70:1. RL 10:12.

Section 20:13 – Disposition of Books and Reports.

    20:13 Disposition of Books and Reports. – Books and reports furnished free by state agencies and institutions to any free public library may be disposed of at the best price obtainable, but only with the approval of the state librarian and of the secretary of state. Source. 1933, 70:1. RL 10:13. 1943, 90:3. RSA […]

Section 20:14 – Preparation for Publication.

    20:14 Preparation for Publication. – The commission appointed under the provisions of chapter 221, Laws of 1953, to revise, codify, and amend the Revised Laws of the state of New Hampshire, is authorized and directed to prepare for publication and to publish the act passed at this session entitled, House Bill No. 75, "An […]

Section 20:15 – Publication.

    20:15 Publication. – The whole act with the changes, additions and corrections authorized by RSA 20:14 shall be published in one or more volumes as the commission shall determine. The volume shall be bound in a manner suitable for the insertion of cumulative pocket parts to contain subsequent session laws and annotations. The complete […]

Section 20:16 – Distribution of Revised Statutes Annotated.

    20:16 Distribution of Revised Statutes Annotated. – I. Unless otherwise directed by the joint committee on legislative facilities, the director of legislative services is authorized to distribute official bound volumes of the Revised Statutes Annotated, replacement volumes thereof and periodic supplements thereto free of charge to each of the following: the clerk of the […]

Section 20:17 – Distribution of Remaining Volumes.

    20:17 Distribution of Remaining Volumes. – Remaining copies of the Revised Statutes Annotated, furnished to the secretary of state by the publisher, may be sold by the secretary of state at such price or prices as the governor and council may determine. Source. 1955, 231:4, eff. June 30, 1955.

Section 20:18 – Laws of 1955.

    20:18 Laws of 1955. – The separate volume of the session laws for the 1955 session published pursuant to RSA 20:2 shall not include H.B. 75 "An Act to revise and codify, the Revised Laws of the State of New Hampshire," the publication of which is herein authorized to be published as the Revised […]

Section 20:19 – Laws of 1959.

    20:19 Laws of 1959. – The separate volume of the session laws for the 1959 session published pursuant to RSA 20:2 shall not include this act adopting the uniform commercial code. This act shall be published in the Revised Statutes Annotated. Source. 1959, 247:5, Commercial Code, eff. July 1, 1961.

Section 20:2-a – Examination Before Printing.

    20:2-a Examination Before Printing. – After any bill or joint resolution has been enacted by the general court, but prior to the printing of the acts and resolves of any session, the director of legislative services shall reexamine the same. If such reexamination shows any error or omission in the references to statutes, or […]

Section 20:2-b – Revised Statutes Annotated.

    20:2-b Revised Statutes Annotated. – The director of legislative services is hereby authorized to contract, with the approval of the joint committee on legislative facilities, for the editorial preparation and publication of original, replacement or revised volumes of the official Revised Statutes Annotated and periodic supplements thereto, as necessary. Source. 1975, 464:7. 1993, 150:1. […]

Section 20:3 – Daily Journals.

    20:3 Daily Journals. – The clerks of the senate and house of representatives shall cause to be printed in pamphlet form at the close of each legislative day sufficient copies of the daily journals of their respective body, and shall make sufficient copies available to members of each body as soon as printed. Thirty-five […]

Section 20:3-a – Permanent Journals.

    20:3-a Permanent Journals. – The clerks of the senate and house of representatives shall at the close of each legislative session: I. Cause such numbers of copies of the permanent journals with indexes as the president of the senate and speaker of the house shall respectively direct to be printed and bound in paper […]

Section 20:3-b – Indexing by State Librarian.

    20:3-b Indexing by State Librarian. – As soon as possible after final adjournment of each session of the general court and in any case consistently with the schedule of performance set forth in contracts for printing and binding of the permanent journals of the general court, the state librarian shall prepare and furnish the […]