35.835(3)
(3) A state agency may restrict distribution of a state document prepared by or for that state agency to only that number necessary for distribution to the state document depository libraries specified under
s. 35.83 (3) (a) to
(d) if the state document is published in limited quantities because of its cost or the nature of the information that it contains.
35.835(4)
(4) This section does not apply to state documents distributed under
s. 35.84.
35.835 History
History: 1991 a. 285.
35.84
35.84
Distribution, to whom. The department shall make distribution of official documents as indicated and shall charge the appropriations of the state agency publishing or arranging for publication of each official document for the total cost of distribution as determined under
s. 35.80. Distribution is automatic unless indicated otherwise. [See Figure 35.84 following]
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35.85
35.85
Other distribution. The department shall make the following distribution of public printing in addition to that indicated in
s. 35.84:
35.85(1)
(1) The chief clerk of each house of the legislature shall, upon request, be supplied for use during the session with the bound journals of any previous session of the legislature. The department may sell such copies of the bound journals not required for the above distribution or for distribution otherwise prescribed by law, and may sell older editions at reduced prices. All prices shall be fixed by the department.
35.85(2)
(2) Of parts of official reports, pamphlets and magazines, and pamphlet laws, printed by authority of
ss. 35.28 and
35.29, one copy to each person named in lists filed for the purpose of such distributions by the respective state agencies upon whose requisition the same were printed except that blocks of such publications may be allotted to the requisitioning agency for official use subject to approval of the department.
35.85(3)
(3) Each county, town, village and city shall purchase from the department for the municipal judges and for other officers of the county or municipality such number of copies of the statutes and other official documents not distributed under
s. 35.84 as are needed for its official purposes.
35.85(4)
(4) If the department obtains copies of any document for which distribution is required under
s. 35.83, and the division informs the department in writing that the state agency publishing the document has not distributed the document in accordance with
s. 35.83 (3), the department shall distribute the document in accordance with
s. 35.83 (3) and shall charge the state agency publishing the document for the cost of distribution.
35.85(5)
(5) The department may order such further distribution of the statutes, annotations and Laws of Wisconsin as may be needed for official use by any justice of the supreme court or by any state agency.
35.85(8)
(8) All briefs and other materials printed for the supreme court shall be delivered to the clerk of that court for distribution.
35.85(11)
(11) The chief clerks of the legislature shall promptly send to each county clerk, to the Milwaukee County Law Library, and upon application, to each state university, college and public library in this state, copies of all legislative documents together with proper filing appliances for all sessions. Each county clerk shall keep these documents open to public inspection in the clerk's office.
35.85(12)
(12) In addition to the distributions authorized by
s. 35.84 and this section, the department shall deliver, upon request of the state historical society or the state law library, additional copies of any state publication in its possession after the department has fulfilled all of the distribution requirements of
s. 35.84 and this section, as may be needed for the use of the state historical society or the state law library; and upon the request of any state officer, such copies of any printing of the 3rd class as may be necessary or convenient for the business of such officer. But no state officer shall receive more than one such copy for his or her own use nor more than one copy for each assistant and chief clerk in his or her office. The department shall notify the historical society and the state law library of the receipt by it of each separate lot of public printing. The department shall charge the cost of distributions made in accordance with this subsection to the requisitioning state agency.
35.85(13)
(13) Departmental distribution programs, which are not specified in this chapter, may be established, provided that they do not conflict with this chapter.
35.86(1)(1) The director of the historical society may procure the exchange of public documents produced by federal, state, county, local, and other agencies as may be desirable to maintain or enlarge its historical, literary, and statistical collections, and may make such distributions of public documents, with or without exchange, as may accord with interstate or international comity. The state law librarian shall procure so many of such exchanges as the state law librarian is authorized by law to make, and the department of health services, department of children and families, commission of banking, department of public instruction, legislative reference bureau, and the legislative council staff, may procure by exchange such documents from other states and countries as may be needed for use in their respective offices. Any other state agency wishing to initiate a formal exchange program in accordance with this section may do so by submitting a formal application to the department and by otherwise complying with this section.
35.86(2)
(2) Exchange lists, containing the number of public documents received and the number of state documents distributed in exchange, shall be filed with the department by the respective state agencies authorized to procure exchanges, and the documents specified therein shall be forwarded by the department with carriage charges prepaid.
35.86(3)
(3) The department shall authorize no distribution to be made in exchange until exchange lists have been received by it in compliance with this section.
35.86(5)
(5) The department shall charge the cost of exchanges, including the costs specified in
s. 35.80, to the appropriations of the state agencies filing exchange lists with the department.
35.86(6)
(6) The department shall inform all state agencies of this section.
35.87
35.87
Sales of legislative documents. 35.87(1)
(1) The legislature may provide as a service to paid subscribers routine distribution of copies of all bills, joint resolutions, amendments, acts, journals, bulletins of proceedings and hearing bulletins printed for the legislature.
35.87(2)
(2) If the service is provided, the biennial fee, effective January 1 of each odd-numbered year, for subscription to the complete legislative document distribution service shall be $500. If the service is provided, the joint committee on legislative organization may authorize portions of the service to be provided separately, and may prescribe a biennial fee for each portion so provided. The sum of the biennial fees for all portions of the service provided separately may not be less than $500. Actual postage or delivery costs shall be added to the fee for those subscribers who do not pick up their documents.
35.87(3)
(3) If the service is provided, the chief of the legislative reference bureau shall review the fee prescribed in this section on a biennial basis and, no later than December 1 of each even-numbered year, shall recommend to the joint committee any revision to the fee that the chief determines to be appropriate. The joint committee may thereafter recommend to the legislature revision of the fee prescribed in this subsection. The joint committee shall promptly transmit a copy of its recommendation to the secretary of administration.
35.87(4)
(4) The joint committee on legislative organization shall determine the operational responsibility for the service authorized under this section, including the procedure for sale of the service, distribution of documents and the collection of fees. The officer designated by the legislature shall deposit all moneys received for subscriptions to the service into the general fund.
35.88
35.88
Official documents to remain public property. All official document series and all current volumes of periodically updated official documents that are distributed to any state or local government office or officer under
s. 35.84 shall remain as public property and shall be kept for the use of that office or officer.
35.88 History
History: 1985 a. 29.
35.89
35.89
Lists of distributees in counties. Each county clerk shall transmit to the department a list of the officers in the county entitled to distribution of public printing from its office.
35.89 History
History: 1991 a. 316.
35.90
35.90
Inventories by other state officers. Every state officer, other than a district attorney, maintaining a permanent office at the city of Madison, shall make and file annually with the department an inventory of all public printing of the 2nd and 3rd classes and all maps and charts on hand for distribution on July 1. The department shall require the return to it of all such printing as has become, in its opinion, of no further use to the office reporting the same. The department may suspend requisitions for public printing by departments which fail to submit inventories in compliance with this section.
35.90 History
History: 1989 a. 31.
35.91
35.91
Future distribution; sales. 35.91(1)
(1) The latest edition of the Wisconsin statutes shall be sold at a reasonable price, as determined by the department. The department may sell noncurrent editions of the Wisconsin statutes and Wisconsin annotations at reduced prices to be fixed by it.
35.91(2)
(2) Current copies of the Blue Book and the Laws of Wisconsin shall be sold at prices determined by the department, which shall include the cost of sale and distribution under
s. 35.80 and, as determined by the legislative reference bureau, the proportionate cost per copy of typesetting, purchasing, paper, printing, duplication, collating and binding.
35.91(3)
(3) A price list of all printed matter on hand for sale shall be prepared from time to time by the department, which it may have printed and bound as an advertisement in state publications, and it may circulate such price list by mail.
WISCONSIN ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
35.93
35.93
Wisconsin administrative code and register. 35.93(1)(1) The Wisconsin administrative code and register shall be published using the format and method of printing and binding determined by the legislative reference bureau. The notice section of the register and new rules filed by an agency whose rules have not been compiled and printed pursuant to this section may be duplicated in some other form than printing if the department and legislative reference bureau determine that it is administratively feasible to do so. The printing or other duplicating shall be performed or contracted by the department. The department may purchase and sell suitable binders for the code or parts thereof at a price not exceeding cost. The legislative reference bureau shall supervise the arrangement of materials in the Wisconsin administrative code and register, including the numbering of pages and sections. No part of the Wisconsin administrative code or register may be printed until the legislative reference bureau has approved the arrangement of materials and numbering of sections therein.
35.93(2)
(2) In this section "rule" and "agency" have the meanings prescribed in
s. 227.01.
35.93(3)
(3) The legislative reference bureau shall compile and deliver to the department for printing copy for a register which shall contain all the rules filed since the compilation of rules for the preceding issue of the register was made and those executive orders which are to be in effect for more than 90 days or an informative summary thereof. The complete register shall be compiled and published before the first day of each month and a notice section of the register shall be compiled and published before the 15th day of each month. Each issue of the register shall contain a title page with the name "Wisconsin administrative register", the number and date of the register, and a table of contents. Each page of the register shall also contain the date and number of the register of which it is a part in addition to the other necessary code titles and page numbers. The legislative reference bureau may include in the register such instructions or information as in the bureau's judgment will help the user to correctly make insertions and deletions in the code and to keep the code current.
35.93(4)
(4) Each issue of the Wisconsin administrative register shall contain a notice section in which shall be printed the notices of hearings on rule making which agencies have transmitted to the legislative reference bureau for that purpose, statements of scope of proposed rules under
s. 227.135, notices of submittal to the legislative council staff under
s. 227.14 (4m), notices of intent to promulgate rules without a public hearing under
s. 227.16 (2) (e), notices of referrals of proposed rules to presiding officers under
s. 227.19 (2), notices of emergency rules in effect, fiscal estimates for rule-making orders under
s. 227.14 (4), notices of declaratory judgments received under
s. 227.40 (6), and such other notices as may be required by law or determined by the legislative reference bureau to be appropriate.
35.93(5)
(5) The department shall determine, on the basis of the distribution requirements under
s. 35.84 and probable sales demands, the number of copies of each part of the code and each issue of the register to be printed.
35.93(6)
(6) The department shall sell the code, issues of the register or parts of either of them at a price to be determined by it, which shall include the proportionate cost per copy of preparation and manufacturing as determined by the legislative reference bureau, and the cost of sale and distribution specified in
s. 35.80. State employee personnel costs shall be excluded from preparation costs. The department may establish the price of the code or of the register or parts thereof on an annual basis.
35.93(7)
(7) A subscriber is not entitled to a refund of any part of any advance payment for the code or the register. The department shall notify each subscriber when a further payment is due.
35.93(8)
(8) The legislative reference bureau shall prepare and the department shall publish a table of contents and an index of all the rules in effect which have been compiled and printed under this section. The table of contents and index shall be recompiled and reprinted annually. They shall be printed in the same page size as the administrative code. The department shall distribute one copy of the table of contents and index free to each subscriber to the register or parts thereof.
35.93(9)
(9) The department shall charge the legislature under
s. 20.765 (1) (d) for the cost of distribution of the code and the register, including the costs specified in
s. 35.80, and shall deposit all revenues received from their sale into the general fund.
35.93(10)
(10) State agencies may purchase from the department as many copies of their part or parts of the code or copies of the register as they require for their own use or for distribution, and shall pay the department therefor at the price established under
sub. (6).
