# Title 46 — Printing Laws

## Chapter 46-03 — Printing of Executive and Legislative Matter

### § 46-03-01. Governor's messages - How printed.

All regular messages from the governor and all inaugural messages of the governor-elect
must be printed in pamphlet form.
### § 46-03-02. Executive and public documents and reports - How printed.

Repealed by S.L. 1963, ch. 346, § 73.
### § 46-03-03. Reports of state officers - Number printed.

Repealed by S.L. 1951, ch. 275, § 17.
### § 46-03-04. Blue books - Printing - Distribution.

Repealed by omission from this code.
### § 46-03-05. Bills, resolutions, and journals - Printing.

The printing or reproduction of legislative bills, resolutions, and journals must be in
accordance with the rules of the senate and house of representatives of the state of North
Dakota.
### § 46-03-06. Calendar of bills and resolutions - Contents - Synopsis - Edited by clerk -

Copies furnished on request.
Repealed by S.L. 1973, ch. 369, § 1.
### § 46-03-07. Legislative journals - How printed - Filed with secretary of state.

Repealed by S.L. 1959, ch. 327, § 7.
### § 46-03-08. Journals - How printed.

Repealed by S.L. 1959, ch. 327, § 7.
### § 46-03-09. Journals and laws - Number printed.

Repealed by S.L. 1951, ch. 275, § 17.
### § 46-03-10. Arranging and correcting laws.

In arranging the laws, memorials, and resolutions for publication, the legislative council shall
make such corrections in orthography, grammatical construction, and punctuation of the same
as in its judgment are proper. When any law published in the code contains a reference to
customary weights and measures, the equivalent weights and measures of the metric system
must be added to the law as an insertion. When any such words or clauses are inserted, the
same must be enclosed in brackets. In arranging the laws for publication and in publishing and
maintaining the laws, the legislative council may change statutory references to numbers and
letters to correct references to redesignated or repealed chapters, sections, or portions of
sections and change statutory references to institutions, agencies, offices, and officers to be
consistent with other statutory usage and constitutional provisions.
### § 46-03-11. Publication of session laws and pocket supplements.

The legislative council shall correct ministerial or clerical errors and supervise the
publication of the session laws and pocket part supplements to this code in a manner and form
prescribed by the legislative council, correlating each year's laws with this code.
### § 46-03-11.1. Publication of Constitution of North Dakota - Numbering and arrangement.

The Constitution of North Dakota must be published in a format that will correlate and
integrate all constitutional provisions in a numbering arrangement that avoids ambiguity and

duplication and that aids in placing constitutional amendments into the constitution. The
Constitution of North Dakota, as presently numbered and arranged, must be republished in this
new format by the legislative council. The publication of the constitution under the format
authorized by this section must be accomplished when the code volume containing the
constitution is replaced.
### § 46-03-11.2. Publication of the century code.

The legislative council may establish specifications for publication of this code and contract
with a publisher with respect to editorial, information processing, and publication services. The
legislative council may continue any agreement with the publisher and may contract for
continuing editorial work and publication services to assure continuity in editorial preparation,
printing, and binding of supplements and replacement volumes of the code as long as the
council deems it to the advantage and best interests of the state. Chapters 46-01 and 46-02 do
not apply to any contract under this section.
### § 46-03-12. Popular edition of session laws - How printed - Classification.

Repealed by S.L. 1951, ch. 275, § 17.
### § 46-03-13. Authentication of popular edition of session laws - Date of distribution.

Repealed by S.L. 1951, ch. 275, § 17.
### § 46-03-14. Official and authenticated edition of session laws - How printed -

Classification.
Repealed by S.L. 1951, ch. 275, § 17.
### § 46-03-15. Authentication of session laws.

All laws contained in the session laws must be printed or published with the word
"approved" and the date of approval and with the word "filed" and the date of filing. In each
authenticated volume of the session laws there must be a general certificate made by the
secretary of state and the legislative council to the effect that all laws, memorials, and
resolutions contained therein are correct copies of the originals in the office of the secretary of
state.
### § 46-03-16. Style and binding of executive reports.

Repealed by S.L. 1951, ch. 275, § 17.
### § 46-03-17. Authority to increase number of session laws, journals, and other material

printed vested in state publication and printing commission.
Repealed by S.L. 1951, ch. 275, § 17.
### § 46-03-18. Copies of journals and legislative documents to be furnished printer.

The secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the house shall furnish journal copy for
their respective houses and copies of legislative documents to the printer of the legislative
documents or daily journals. A contractor is not accountable under section 46-02-10 for any
delay occasioned by the failure to furnish the copy on a timely basis.
### § 46-03-19. When documents officially printed - Faith and credit given.

All laws, journals, and documents printed and published by central duplicating services of
the office of management and budget or any contractor under this title, and duly certified by the
secretary of state and the legislative council as provided in section 46-03-15 or rules of the
senate and house of representatives, are deemed officially to be printed and published, and full
faith and credit must be given to them as such.

### § 46-03-20. Omitted statutes not repealed.

Any statute "Omitted" from this code accompanied by a note stating the statute was
"Omitted as a statute not of a general and permanent nature" or a note stating the statute was
"Not repealed but omitted as a statute not of a general and permanent nature" may not be
construed as repealed by virtue of its omission from this code.
