7A.1 - OFFICIAL REPORTS -- PREPARATION.
7A.1 OFFICIAL REPORTS -- PREPARATION.
State officials, boards, commissions, and heads of departments
shall prepare and file written official reports, in simple language
and in the most concise form consistent with clearness and
comprehensiveness of matter, required by law or by the governor.
Before filing any report its author shall carefully edit the same
and strike therefrom all minutes of proceedings, and all
correspondence, petitions, orders, and other matter which can be
briefly stated, or which is not important information concerning
public affairs, and consolidate so far as practicable all statistical
tables.
Any report failing to comply substantially with this section shall
be returned to its author for correction, and until made so to comply
shall not be printed.
This section shall not be construed as depriving the director of
the department of administrative services of the right to edit and
revise said report. Section History: Early Form
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 244; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73,
75, 77, 79, 81, § 17.1] Section History: Recent Form
C93, § 7A.1
98 Acts, ch 1119, §25; 98 Acts, ch 1164, §40; 2003 Acts, ch 145,
§106
Referred to in § 476.16