50-18-31

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50-18-31.
The reporter shall make distribution of the reports which shall be handled in accordance with this Code section:
(1) The state librarian shall furnish the reporter a written memorandum indicating the number of volumes of each new report which will be required for purposes of the exchange set forth in Code Sections 50-11-5 and 50-11-6. The reporter shall arrange for delivery to exchangees, on behalf and in the name of the state library, of volumes of reports distributed to the state librarian for exchange purposes. The state librarian shall supply the reporter with shipping labels containing the names and addresses of the exchangees;
(2) The reporter shall place all orders for the reports with the publisher. At any time the state librarian adds or eliminates a particular exchange point or determines that the number of copies of either of the reports needs to be changed, he shall notify the reporter of this fact in writing, and the reporter shall adjust his orders for new reports accordingly;
(3) All volumes distributed within this state to the state or to any of its subordinate departments, agencies, or political subdivisions, or to public officers or public employees within the state, other than to the state librarian for exchange purposes, shall be the property of the appropriate public officer or employee during his term of office or employment and shall be turned over to his successor; and the reporter shall take and retain a receipt from each such public officer or employee acknowledging this fact. Volumes distributed to the state librarian for exchange purposes, but handled for delivery to exchangees by the reporter on behalf and in the name of the state library, shall become the property of the recipient. The reporter shall at all times use the most economical method of shipment consistent with the safety and security of the volumes;
(4) The reporter shall make distributions of the reports in accordance with the following:
Archives, State
one copy
Commissioner of Insurance
one copy
Court of Appeals of Georgia
23 copies
(which number may be increased upon written order from the Chief Judge to the reporter)
Executive Department
one copy
Georgia Institute of Technology
one copy
Georgia State University
one copy
Historical Society, Georgia
one copy
Human Resources, Department of
one copy
House Judiciary Committee
one copy
Labor, Department of
one copy
Law, Department of (other than State Library)
six copies
(which number may be increased upon written order from the Attorney General)
Legislative Counsel
one copy
(which number may be increased upon written order of the Legislative Counsel)
Library, State
Exchange Program:
Each foreign government authority participating
one copy
Each state participating
one copy
Shelving
two copies
Newly created superior court circuits or judgeships
as appropriate
Whenever a new superior court circuit or a new judgeship within a circuit shall be created, if the officer entitled to reports shall notify the reporter in writing of his assumption of office, the reporter shall add his position to those to receive reports and shall supply him with all earlier volumes.
Judge of the Probate Court (each county)
one copy
Public Service Commission
one copy
Recipients not named herein but named on the librarian´s distribution list as of the date of his last distribution of the reports next preceding April 18, 1975 (each)

one copy
The reporter is authorized to add such names, in whole or in part, to his listing of distributees to receive future reports.
Reporter
Assistant reporter´s desk
one copy
Copyright
three copies
Reporter´s clerical staff
one copy
Reporter´s desk
one copy
Secretary of State
one copy
Senate Judiciary Committee
one copy
Special or emergency circumstances
as appropriate
When it shall appear to the reporter that a worthy state purpose will be served thereby, he may add agencies or officers to the list of recipients of reports, provided that no courts or agencies of a local nature shall be added to the list.
Superior Courts
Clerks (each)
one copy
District Attorneys (each)
one copy
Judges (each)
one copy
Supreme Court of Georgia
18 copies
(which number may be increased upon written order from the Chief Justice to the reporter)
United States Courts
Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
one copy
District Courts, Georgia
four copies
University of Georgia Law School Library
25 copies
Workers´ Compensation, State Board of
six copies
The reporter may add additional recipients or additional copies to named recipients upon written order from the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; and

(5) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (4) of this Code section regarding distribution of reports to superior courts and to judges of the probate courts, the chief judge of the superior courts of any judicial circuit may, for any county within that circuit, have discontinued or restored the distribution of any of that county´s authorized number of copies of reports, as such judge determines the needs therefor, upon written request to the librarian. In any event, at least one copy of each report shall be distributed to each county to be placed in the county law library or, if no such library is maintained, in the office of the judge of the probate court for the use of the general public.