Sec. 26. (a) Subject to subsections (b) and (c), every state agency that issues public documents shall furnish the state library twenty-five (25) printed copies of all publications issued by them, whether originally printed or published electronically, which are not issued solely for use within the issuing office. However, if the library requests, as many as twenty-five (25) additional copies of each public document shall be supplied.

(b) If other provision is made by law for the distribution of the session laws of the general assembly, the journals of the house and senate of the general assembly, the supreme court and court of appeals reports, or the publications of the Indiana historical bureau, any of the public documents for which distribution is provided are exempted from the depository requirements under subsection (a) and sections 25 and 27 of this chapter.

(c) If a public document issued by an agency is published in the Indiana Register in full or in summary form, the agency is exempt from providing copies of the published public document to the state library under subsection (a) and sections 25 and 27 of this chapter.

(d) Publications of the various schools, colleges, divisions, and departments of the state universities and their regional campuses are exempt from the depository requirements under subsection (a). However, two (2) copies of each publication of these divisions shall be deposited in the state library.

(e) Publications of state university presses, directives for internal administration, intraoffice and interoffice publications, and forms are completely exempt from all depository requirements.

As added by Acts 1981, P.L.40, SEC.7. Amended by P.L.31-1985, SEC.41; P.L.1-1990, SEC.37; P.L.11-1996, SEC.4; P.L.91-2014, SEC.2; P.L.72-2018, SEC.11; P.L.42-2018, SEC.12; P.L.10-2019, SEC.7.