2006 Alabama Code - Section 41-4-156 — Printing of acts and resolutions in pamphlet form - Distribution to certain officers, departments, etc.; certain officers to keep pamphlets in books until acts published in permanent form.

(a) Within three working days after an enrolled bill or joint resolution has been delivered to and filed in the office of the Secretary of State, it shall be numbered, in the order in which it is received, and a copy of each local or general act shall be placed in the hands of the printer by the Secretary of the Senate or Clerk of the House, as the case may be. The printer must immediately print 1,700 copies in slip or pamphlet form in accordance with Section 41-4-158, which the printer must distribute as follows: two copies for every member and officer of the Legislature, which copies shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, 25 copies to the Supreme Court library, 15 copies to the Legislative Reference Service, 20 copies to the law library at the University of Alabama, 50 copies to the Department of Archives and History, one copy to every judge of a court of record, circuit court clerk, register of the circuit court, district court clerk, district attorney, deputy district attorney, county commission chairman, municipal clerk, and sheriff, and the remainder shall be delivered to the Secretary of State.

(b) Each probate judge, circuit court clerk, register of the circuit court, district court clerk, county commission chairman, municipal clerk, and sheriff shall preserve in his office, in a book kept for that purpose, each pamphlet furnished him until the acts are published in permanent form. Pamphlet acts shall be open to public inspection during regular business hours.

(Acts 1949, No. 27, p. 39, §7; Acts 1975, No. 1161, p. 2285, §1; Acts 1981, No. 81-347, p. 503; Acts 1982, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 82-763, p. 238, §2.)