The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1919-05-22
SENATE GILL No. ,s7

Committee on Printing!
State Publication and Printing Com
mission
An Act Creating State Publication
and Printing Commissions; pre-
scribing its duties and powers; and
repeating all acts and parts of acts
in conflict herewith.
Be it enacted by the Legislative
Assembly of the State of North
Dakota:
Section 1. In lieu of the Commits,
sioners of Public Printing, there is
hereby created a commission to be
known as the State Publication and
Printing Commission.
Section 2. The said commission
shall be composed of the Secretary of
State, the Commissioner of Agficul.
ture and Labor, and the Chairman of
the Board of Railroad Commissioners.
1t shall hold its first meeting in the
Office of the Secretary of State within
twenty days after the passage and
approval of this act
Section 3. The said commission is
authorized to appoint a State Printer,
who shall also be secretary to the
commission, and such appointee may,
by the commission, be removed with
or without cause. The person so an.
pointed must at the time of his an.
pointment have been a resident of
the State of North Dakota for at
least one year last past, and must be
practical expert printer. He shall
receive an annual salary of Twenty
four Hundred ($240O.OO) Dollars; he
shall perform all the duties now re.
quired of the expert printer, and
such other duties as may be assigned
to him by the commission hereby
established, and shall maintain his
office in the state capitol.
Section 4. In addition to the duties
and powers now vested by law in the
board heretofore known as the Com,
missioners of Public Printing, the
commission shall have the power to
make all printing contracts in all
matters of state printing, and the
power to designate a newspaper in
each county in the state, and a
newspaper Of newspapers in the state,
in which publications required by law
to he published by state officials
must be made. It shall be the duty Of
said commission to designate in every
county OF this state a newspaper,
which shall bs the official Newspaper
in each county In which It is desiu.
mated, until its successor shall be
chosen as provided by law; and in
each county as designated, shall be
published official proceedings of the
Board of County Commissioners in
each county respectively, and all
other notices and publications that
are now required by law to be pub
lfshed by county officers in the sever
al counties; all summons, citations,
notices, orders and other processes in,
all actions or proceedings IN the gu.
preme, district or county or Justice
courts, which are or may be hereafter
required by law to he published in
the respective counties Of the state;
all publications of every nature that
are now or may hereafter be required
to be Published by state officers; all
notices Of foreclosure by advertise.
ment Of real estate or chatteI mort.
cages or Of other liens on real or per-
sonaI property; all notices Of whatso.
ever kind and character now or here
after required by law to be published,
in said county; provided, however!
that in organized cities, towns or vii
lagos, where no official newspaper is
published, said city, town or village
council, commission or board, may
designate an official newspaper for
the publication of such. notices and
legal publications. as are now OF, may
hereafter be required by law for said
cities, towns or villages. including le-
gal notices and official statements of
schools within such cities, towns and
villages, and the statements of banks
and other corporations therein; but
in cities. towns or villages where the
commission designates an official
such notices and legal
as are now required by
law to be published by cities. towns,
or villages. shall. be published in the
official newspaper designated by the
commission. The commission shall
have the power and it shall be its
duty to select one or more legal
in. this state for the pub:
lication 6 all state legal notices, in
notices for the publication of
any reports Of corporations doing
business in this state, now re,
quired by law to be published,
whether from the Office Of the insur-
ance commissioner or secretary of
state "or other state officers, and it.
shall have the power in addition to-
the provisions of law. now existing,
to make contracts with any printer,
publisher, person or cor.
poration, for the publication of any
stAtA legal notice, for the printing
of the state documents, laws, journals
or other state matters, or. for: the
making or providing OF state. station
cry, Of blanks and other documents
whatsoever in their judgment they
may determine so to do. It shall be
the duty Of every newspaper in this