Alabama § 36-14-11 Acts and Resolutions of Legislature - Distribution to Departments, Officers, Courts, Etc.; Electronic Storage and Distribution

Alabama Statutes

§ 36-14-11 — Acts and Resolutions of Legislature - Distribution to Departments, Officers, Courts, Etc.; Electronic Storage and Distribution

Alabama § 36-14-11

Title 36Public Officers and Employees

Ch. 14Secretary of State

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Ala. Code § 36-14-11 (2026).

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(a)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 Department 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 Representat

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(a) 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 Department 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.
(b)(1) In lieu of binding and distributing copies of each volume of acts and resolutions as required under subsection (a), the acts and resolutions may be stored in electronic format and distributed by electronic means, including the posting of the acts and resolutions on the public website of the Secretary of State.
(2) If the Secretary of State elects to distribute copies of each volume of acts and resolutions by electronic means as provided in subdivision (1), he or she may provide written notice by regular mail to all recipients as soon as practicable.

Legislative History

(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; Act 2019-414, §1.)