§36-14-11. Acts and resolutions of Legislature - Distribution to departments, officers, courts, etc.

The Secretary of State shall retain for the use of the executive offices and the two houses of the Legislature the number of copies of all volumes of the acts and resolutions of each session necessary to provide for distribution pursuant to law. The Secretary of State shall transmit to the Department of State of the United States two copies of each volume, and distribute to the Governor, Treasurer, Auditor, Superintendent of Education, Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, State Health Officer, Adjutant General, the Board of Corrections, President and each Associate Commissioner of the Public Service Commission, Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources, Department of Revenue, Clerk of the Supreme Court, Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives two copies of each volume, to the Attorney General and Secretary of State, three copies, to the Department of Archives and History, five copies, to the Chief Examiner of the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts, 40 copies, and to the President of the University of Alabama, for the law department, 8 copies of each volume, and to each judge of the Supreme Court, Court of Civil Appeals, Court of Criminal Appeals, circuit court, district attorney, United States District Judge, and United States Attorney in this state one copy of each volume, and to the Supreme Court Library 11 copies of each volume, and to the Department of Justice of the United States one copy of each volume, and to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit one copy of each volume, and to the Librarian of Congress at Washington, for the purpose of copyright, two copies of each volume, and to the University of Alabama, for the Land Commissioner, the University of Montevallo, each normal school in the state, Auburn University, and to each district agricultural school in the state one copy of each volume. Any department, officer, or court named in this section may reduce or refuse the allocation of acts upon written request to the Secretary of State.

(Code 1852, §96; Code 1867, §135; Code 1876, §140; Code 1886, §232; Code 1896, §1984; Code 1907, §586; Acts 1909, No. 140, p. 277, §1; Code 1923, §793; Acts 1936, Ex. Sess., No. 170, p. 201; Code 1940, T. 55, §194; Acts 1997, No. 97-585, p. 1034, §1.)