Sec. 2-49. Preparation, printing and distribution of assembly journals.
Sec. 2-49. Preparation, printing and distribution of assembly journals. Within
three months after the adjournment of each General Assembly, the clerk of the Senate and
the clerk of the House of Representatives shall prepare a full and accurate alphabetical
subject-index to the journals, and shall cause to be printed three hundred seventy-five
copies of each of said journals with the index. One copy of each journal so indexed shall
be certified by the clerk of the Senate or the clerk of the House, as the case may be, to
be a true record of the proceedings of such house and shall be deposited in the office
of the secretary as the official journal thereof. They shall cause to be transmitted directly
to the secretary fifty copies of each journal, to the State Library fifty copies, to each
incorporated or associated library in the state requesting the same and to each county
bar library, one copy, and to each state officer, to each member of the General Assembly,
one copy and to each town, at the request of the town clerk of such town, one copy, and
the remainder shall be deposited with the secretary, who, upon receiving the certified
copies as above provided, shall certify to the Comptroller that said journals have been
indexed and distributed in accordance with this section; and the Comptroller shall thereupon draw his order on the Treasurer in favor of the persons whose duty it is to index
and distribute the same, for the sum of three hundred dollars each for their services and
expenses.
(1949 Rev., S. 48; September, 1957, P.A. 11, S. 2; P.A. 76-306, S. 1, 2.)
History: P.A. 76-306 changed number of copies to be printed and to be distributed to state library and provided that
journals be provided to towns at request of town clerk.
See Sec. 3-86 re distribution of legislative documents to free public libraries.
See Sec. 7-35 re requirement that town clerks preserve certain legislative documents.