2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title I - The State and Its Government › Chapter 20 - Publication and Distribution of Bills, Joint Resolutions, Legislative Manual, Statutes, Journals, and Reports › Section 20:1 - Laws.

20:1 Laws. –
I. At the close of a legislative session, the director of legislative services shall cause such number of copies of all the acts and resolves thereof, with an appropriate index, to be printed as the joint committee on legislative facilities shall determine.
II. Such acts and resolves shall be numbered consecutively as chapters, beginning with number one, in the order in which they were enacted and shall be uniform in style with the Revised Statutes Annotated.
III. The director of legislative services shall cause such number thereof to be bound as said committee shall determine:
(a) In paper, and
(b) In hard cover.
IV. All the printed copies of the laws which are to be sold or distributed by the state librarian shall be delivered to the state librarian for distribution, sale, and storage.
V. (a) The state librarian shall distribute one free copy of the hard bound laws to the following:
(1) The governor.
(2) Each member of the executive council.
(3) Each agency and institution of the state.
(4) The justices and clerks of the supreme and superior court.
(5) The Library of Congress.
(6) New Hampshire state government information access libraries designated under RSA 202-B.
(7) The state or territorial library of each state and territory in the United States, provided that if any state or territory makes a charge to the New Hampshire state library for copies of its laws, the state librarian is hereby authorized to make the proper charge for copies of the laws of New Hampshire when forwarded to the state or territorial library of such state or territory.
(8) Each free public library established under the laws of the state, upon written request to the state librarian on or before September 1 of each year for the laws enacted in that calendar year.
(9) The town clerk of each town, upon written request submitted to the state librarian on or before September 1 of each year for the laws enacted in that calendar year.
(b) Each member of the legislature shall be furnished one copy of the paper bound session laws upon request to the house or senate clerk, as appropriate.
(c) After retaining sufficient copies for the required distribution, the state librarian shall sell copies of paper bound or hard bound laws to other persons requesting them. The state librarian is authorized to recover the costs of mailing and distribution of those volumes which are sold and may add such costs to the sale price established under paragraph VI.
VI. (a) The joint committee on legislative facilities shall determine and fix the price for the sale of hard and paper bound copies of the laws. The state librarian may retain the difference between the cost of printing and the sale price for any hard and paper bound laws sold. The state librarian shall return to the director of legislative services for deposit in the general fund an amount equal to the cost of printing for all hard and paper bound laws sold.
(b) The state librarian may sell any unsold copies of the laws in the possession of the state librarian after 5 years from the date the joint committee on legislative facilities fixed the price for such copies, at a price set by the state librarian. The state librarian may retain all proceeds from such sales.
Source.
1919, 3:1. 1921, 66:1. PL 5:1. RL 10:1. RSA 20:1. 1955, 2:1. 1969, 98:1. 1975, 464:1. 1979, 380:1. 1997, 351:38. 2001, 281:1, eff. Sept. 14, 2001.