12-6-107 - Libraries as depositories for documents Legislative library Copies.
12-6-107. Libraries as depositories for documents Legislative library Copies.
(a) The state library at Nashville, the library of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, the Cossitt Library at Memphis, and such other libraries as the governor may at any time name by executive order are designated depositories for state documents and for all publications issued by any official of the state.
(b) Upon request of a designated depository of state documents, such depository shall be entitled to receive, without charge, one (1) copy of the bills, resolutions, amendments, daily journals, informational services showing committee actions and the status of pieces of legislation, daily calendars, published committee reports and any official or unofficial published index.
(c) To ensure access of all state publications to members of the general assembly without the expense of furnishing copies for each member, all state documents and publications otherwise distributed to depository libraries shall also be distributed to the legislative library for the use of the general assembly.
[Acts 1917, ch. 42, § 1; Shan. Supp., § 1387a7; Code 1932, § 2283; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 12-607; Acts 1981, ch. 191, § 7; 1984, ch. 798, § 3; 1984, ch. 903, § 1.]