§41-8-41. Definitions.

As used in this article, the following words shall have the following meanings:

(1) DEPOSITORY. An institution which contracts with the Alabama Public Library Service to participate in the state publications depository system.

(2) STATE AGENCY. Any permanent or temporary state office, department, division or unit, bureau, board, commission, task force, authority, institution, state college or university, or other unit of state government, whether executive, legislative, or judicial.

(3) STATE PRINTER. The state print shop, a commercial printer under contract with a state agency, or a state agency print shop.

(4) STATE PUBLICATION. Any document issued by a state agency which the agency may legally release for public distribution, but does not include any of the following:

1. Code of Alabama.

2. Bound volumes of the Acts of Alabama.

3. Legislative bills, journals, and slip laws.

4. The Alabama Digest.

5. Alabama Reporter.

6. Any other items prepared for commercial sales.

7. Correspondence, interoffice or intraoffice memoranda, routine forms, other internal records, or any other item of a strictly administrative nature.

8. Any document published pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act.

9. Indices prepared by the Legislative Reference Service.

(Acts 1993, No. 93-257, p. 384, §2.)