NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 591

HOUSE BILL 241

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 147-50 BY CHANGING THE METHOD BY WHICH STATE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS ARE FILED WITH THE STATE LIBRARY AND THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 147-50, as it appears in the 1977 Replacement Volume 3C of the General Statutes, is amended in the table by deleting the following lines:

"Library of Congress                                                                  2 copies;

Department of Cultural Resources                                              5 copies;".

Sec. 2.  There is enacted a new section, G.S. 147-50.1, to read as follows:

"§ 147-50.1.  Publications of State officials and department heads deposited with Division of State Library. — Every State official and every head of a State department, institution, or agency issuing any document, report, directory, statistical compendium, bibliography, map, rule, regulation, newsletter, pamphlet, brochure, periodical, or other publications shall deposit five copies with the Division of State Library of the Department of Cultural Resources. 'Printed materials' are publications produced by any means, including publications issued by private bodies, such as consultant or research firms, under contract with or under the supervision of a State agency. The Division of State Library shall publish a checklist of publications received from State agencies and shall distribute the checklist without charge to all requesting libraries. The Division of State Library shall forward two of the five copies of all publications received from State agencies to the Library of Congress. The provisions of this section do not apply to the appellate division reports and advance sheets distributed by the Administrative Office of the Courts, the S.B.I. Investigative 'Bulletin', or administrative materials intended only for the internal use of a State agency."

Sec. 3.  Passage of this bill shall not obligate the General Assembly for an additional appropriation.

Sec. 4.  This act is effective July 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of May, 1979.