2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 24 — Legislature and laws
RS 24:173 — Distribution of current acts and journals

§173. Distribution of current acts and journals

A. In addition to the distribution authorized in R.S. 25:125, the secretary of state shall make the following distribution of the current Acts and journals of the legislature:

(1) To each member of the legislature, upon request submitted in writing to the secretary of state not later than September first of each year, not more than two copies of the journals of each house, and not more than two copies of the Acts passed each session of the legislature while he is a member.

(2) To each department of the state government and to each state agency so designated by law, for the use thereof, one copy of the Acts.

(3) To each district attorney and sheriff of the various parishes of the state and to each clerk of the civil and criminal district courts throughout the state, one copy of the Acts for the use of their offices and courts, respectively; to the clerk of each city or municipal court and of each juvenile court throughout the state, one copy of the current Acts and journals for the use of their offices and courts, respectively; and to the clerk or secretary of the police jury or governing authority of each parish, one copy of the Acts for the use of the police jury or other governing authority of the parish.

(4) To the clerk of each of the courts of appeal of the state, three copies of the Acts for the use of those courts.

(5) To the clerk of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, seven copies of the Acts and seven copies of the journals for the use of the court.

(6) To the clerk of each of the circuit courts of appeal and district courts of the United States in and for the state of Louisiana, one copy of the Acts for the use of those courts.

(7) To each senator and to each representative elected from the state of Louisiana to the congress of the United States, one copy of the Acts.

(8) To the State Library of Louisiana and to the Huey P. Long Memorial Library, three copies each of the Acts and journals for the use of those libraries; and to the Law Library of Louisiana at New Orleans, twenty-five copies of the Acts to be used by it for library purposes and exchange purposes with state libraries of other states or other departments or agencies thereof.

B. The secretary of state may, in his discretion, distribute copies of any acts of the legislature to foreign governments or foreign institutions of learning as a means of promoting the free interchange of information regarding current social and legal developments.

Amended by Acts 1950, No. 367, §1; Acts 1956, No. 360, §1; Acts 1958, No. 285, §1; Acts 1960, No. 17, §1; Acts 1976, No. 350, §1; Acts 1982, No. 104, §1; Acts 1988, No. 58, §5; Acts 1991, No. 938, §1; Acts 2010, No. 596, §1.