6 - Department printing.
§ 6. Department printing. 1. The department printing, constituting the second part hereinbefore described, shall include (a) the blanks, circulars, blank books, pamphlets, envelopes, letter and note heads, other than those required for the use of the legislature and all other printing work for the various departments, agencies, commissions and institutions of the state within the executive branch, other than the legislature, including the reports and bulletins and (b) all of the printing required by section eighty-two of the election law. The commissioner of general services may exclude from the department printing and classify as supplies such blanks, circulars, blank books, pamphlets, envelopes, letter heads and note heads, snap-out and continuous forms, and similar printing, as he deems proper, and may also divide and classify the department printing into two or more parts according to the kind, quality or quantity of work, or otherwise, as the commissioner may determine; and, pursuant to this chapter, may advertise for and let separate contracts for each of such parts. The commissioner may, from time to time, modify any exclusion or classification of department printing made pursuant to this section. 2. Any state officer, department, commission, institution or board may deliver the copy of its report to the commissioner on or before the first day of August, or as soon thereafter as possible, and when so delivered shall be ordered printed for transmission to the legislature in printed form. The commissioner in addition to the number of copies thereof required to be distributed pursuant to section forty-seven of the legislative law, shall direct the printing of as many copies of reports of state officers, departments, commissions, institutions and boards as the heads of such departments, commissions, institutions and boards may deem necessary. The nature and amount of material to be included in such reports and the form, contents and frequency of publications and of all other printing for the respective state officers, departments, commissions, institutions and boards shall be determined by the head of each department, commission, institution and board. 4. No report of any institution, board or commission shall be printed as hereinbefore provided for where the same is or can be printed by or in the institution making the same. 5. Whenever any department shall, under the provisions of law, issue a portion of its annual report in advance in the form of bulletins, such bulletins shall be printed by the contractor at the rates provided for in his contract. 6. a. The commissioner shall have power to subdivide into groups the work embraced in the department printing and to award separate and distinct contracts for each such group, or for any combination of one or more of such groups, for any period not exceeding two years, as the commissioner shall deem in the best interests of the state. b. In the case of any printing authorized by this section, no extra charge shall be made except for extra paper or work beyond that required by the terms of the contract actually furnished with the approval of the comptroller, and for such extra paper and work the charge allowed shall not exceed the current market rates. Composition shall not be charged a second time by the same contractor on matter printed from type already set or negatives or plates made at state expense, but the commissioner may make suitable allowance for handling of plates and reimposing negatives or type forms. In all work requiring engraving and in all cases where illustrations are used, the dies, plates and engravings shall forthwith become the property of the state, and thereafter no charge shall be made for their subsequent use, except that the comptroller may make a suitable allowance for the handling of theplates. In all work manufactured by the process of lithography or photo composition, the artwork, camera ready mechanicals, and negatives shall forthwith become the property of the state. 7. Whenever any officer, bureau, board, commission, or any corporation or association shall make to more than one officer or body an annual report, the contractor shall not print such report for the year more than once at public expense, and the filing of a copy of the report as so printed shall be deemed a compliance with any law requiring a report to any other officer or body than the one to which the original manuscript report was submitted; and any institution which makes a report to any bureau, department or commission, which report is thereafter included in the annual report of said bureau, department or commission to the legislature, shall not be entitled for its own use to additional copies of said report, unless otherwise specifically provided. 8. All extra copies of reports printed for the use of departments, institutions and boards shall be delivered by the contractor to said state officers, departments, institutions and boards. 9. All copies of messages and reports printed for the use of the legislature shall be delivered, one-third to the secretary of the senate and two-thirds to the clerk of the assembly, and shall be distributed as the legislature shall direct.