Printing and binding done without unnecessary delay - Time within which laws and public documents must be delivered - How extension granted
N.D. Cent. Code § 46-02-10
in effect46-02-10. Printing and binding done without unnecessary delay - Time within which
laws and public documents must be delivered - How extension granted.
1. Each contractor under this chapter, promptly and without unnecessary delay, shall
execute all orders issued to that contractor by the legislative assembly, either branch
of the legislative assembly, the legislative council, or the office of management and
budget on behalf of the executive officers of the state.
2. Volumes of public documents must be delivered to the secretary of state in
accordance with the deadline provided in the contract for printing. The session laws
must be completed and delivered to the secretary of state in accordance with the
deadline provided in the contract for printing.
3. The legislative council, with the assistance of the secretary of state, with reasonable
expedition, shall furnish a printing contractor, if any, with true and correct copies of the
laws and resolutions to be contained in the session laws and copy for the index to the
session laws.
4. The office of management and budget, with the concurrence of the legislative council
in the case of a contractor for the printing of the session laws or journals, for good
cause shown, may extend the time for the execution of any printing contract.
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