SECTIONS 14880-14886 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 14880-14886

14880. The department has general supervision of the distribution
of all public documents and other publications printed for any state
agency and the custody of all state documents and other publications
subject to public distribution, except those printed for the special
use of the Legislature, the Governor, or the elective officers of the
state.
The department shall fix the price and dispose of or sell the
documents and publications.

14881. The department may accept for distribution or disposal
documents and other publications from the Legislature, the Governor,
or the elective officers of the state, when requested to do so.
The department shall fix the price and dispose of or sell the
documents and publications.

14882. The department may compile and publish such documents,
pamphlets, bulletins or other publications as it deems are for the
best interests of the state or for public information.
The cost of compiling, printing and distributing any document,
pamphlet, bulletin or other publication so issued, including salaries
and other expenses, is payable from the Service Revolving Fund.

14883. There shall be deducted from all money received from the
sale of such documents or publications, a pro rata share of the cost
of administration and the balance shall be paid into the Treasury, by
March 31, for sales occurring during the first half of the fiscal
year, by September 30, for sales occurring during the second half of
the fiscal year, and credited to the fund from which the cost of
printing was paid. The amounts deducted for administrative costs
shall be deposited in the State Treasury and credited to the Service
Revolving Fund.

14884. The index of the Constitution and laws shall be offered for
sale to the public at a price to be fixed by the department. Such
portion of the receipts as may be required to complete the cost of
printing, publication and distribution shall be paid into the Service
Revolving Fund and the balance paid into the Treasury and credited
to the General Fund.

14885. In the year 1963 and in every fourth year thereafter the
Office of State Printing shall, with the approval of the department,
compile or cause to be compiled, published and distributed a State
Blue Book.
The Blue Books shall be compiled following the convening of the
session of the Legislature in the year for which the Blue Book is to
be compiled and published and material therein pertaining to the
Legislature shall be compiled under the direction of the Secretary of
the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly as pertaining to
their respective houses.
The Blue Book shall contain only such material as the Joint
Committee on Legislative Organization finds to be appropriate.
The cost of such compilation, publication and distribution shall
be paid from any appropriation made for that purpose.

14886. The volumes shall be distributed as follows: to each Member
of the Senate and Assembly as determined by the Rules Committee of
each house; to the Secretary of the Senate and Chief Clerk of the
Assembly, 15 copies; to the Governor, 25 copies; to the Lieutenant
Governor, 15 copies; to the Secretary of State, the Controller, the
Attorney General, the Legislative Counsel, and the Treasurer, each 10
copies; to each member of the State Board of Equalization, five
copies; to the director of each state department, two copies; to the
two United State Senators from California and the members of the
California congressional delegation, each one copy; to the Chief
Justice and Associate Justices, each one copy; to the presiding
justices and associate justices of the courts of appeal, each one
copy; and copies as provided in Section 14901 of this code.
All other volumes shall be sold for such price as may be fixed by
the department.
Any person who publishes or sells any publication whose title
contains the words "State Blue Book," "California Blue Book," or any
similar words which tend to confuse the publication with the State
Blue Book authorized by this act is guilty of a misdemeanor.