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N.Y. LEG Law § 47

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Officers and institutions entitled to receive volumes of journals, bills and public documents

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§ 47. Officers and institutions entitled to receive volumes of\njournals, bills and public documents. The secretary of the senate and\nthe clerk of the assembly for their respective houses shall distribute\nbound volumes of journals and bound volumes of bills, and other public\ndocuments of each house of the legislature or any of its standing,\nspecial, select or joint committees, subcommittees, or legislative\ncommissions as follows:\n 1. To the legislative library, three copies of the journals, bills,\nand public documents;\n 2. To the New York state library, for its depositories, the United\nStates Library of Congress and general exchange, thirty copies of the\njournals, thirty copies of the public documents, and one copy of the\nbills;\n 3. To the executive chamber, one copy of the bills;\n 4. To the office of the secretary of state, one copy of the bills;\n 5. To the office of the attorney general, one copy of the journals and\nbills.\n 6. The term "public document" as used in this section shall mean those\ndocuments defined by rules and regulations of the temporary president of\nthe senate and the speaker of the assembly for their respective houses\nof the legislature.\n

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