NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 243

SENATE BILL 80

 

 

AN ACT TO VEST IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION CERTAIN CONTROLS OVER THE REPORTS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS ISSUED BY STATE AGENCIES AND INSTITUTIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 120‑13 is hereby repealed.

Sec. 2.  G.S. 143‑168 is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 143‑168.  Reports; conciseness; controls. The annual or biennial reports now authorized or required to be printed by the several State agencies and institutions shall be as compact and concise as is consistent with an intelligent understanding of the work of those agencies and institutions. The details of the work of the agencies and institutions shall not be printed when not necessary to an intelligent understanding of such work, but totals and results may be tabulated and printed in their reports. The Department of Administration shall make such rules as may be necessary prescribing the scope and format of the matter to be published in annual or biennial reports, the methods of reproduction to be employed, and the number of copies of such reports to be published by the several State agencies and institutions."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 143‑169 is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 143‑169.  Limitations on publications. (a) The Department of Administration shall make such rules as may be necessary prescribing the format of the matter to be published, the number of copies to be published, and the methods of reproduction to be employed in the publications of the several State agencies and institutions, other than annual or biennial reports.

"(b)      Every publication published at State expense which makes use of the multicolor process is prohibited except:

"(1)      In cases of scientific illustrations when the illustrations would be unintelligible if published in black and white;

"(2)      When the publication is a project of the Department of Conservation and Development, or is a part of the magazine 'Wildlife in North Carolina', published under the auspices of the Wildlife Resources Commission; or

"(3)      When the express approval of the Department of Administration is obtained."

Sec. 4.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5.  This Act shall take effect upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of April, 1961.