77-138. Kansas Statutes Annotated; number of copies printed; distribution and sale; sale price fixed by legislative coordinating council; proceeds credited to state general fund. (a) Volumes of the Kansas Statutes Annotated shall be printed and bound by the director of printing and delivered to the secretary of state who shall dispose of them as follows:

First, the secretary of state shall deposit in the supreme court law library and in the state library such number of copies as the state law librarian and the state librarian, respectively, shall request for use in the law library and the state library, for the purposes of the publication collection and depository system established under K.S.A. 75-2566, and amendments thereto, and for the purpose of making exchanges with the various states and territories, and the secretary of state shall retain one set for the secretary's use in the secretary's office.

Second, (1) the secretary of state shall distribute two complete sets of the Kansas Statutes Annotated to each member of the legislature at each regular session, one set of which shall have the respective member's name printed thereon.

(2) The secretary of state shall distribute such number of complete sets and individual volumes of the Kansas Statutes Annotated: (A) To the office of revisor of statutes as the revisor of statutes shall request; (B) to the legislative research department as the director of legislative research shall request; (C) to the division of post audit as the post auditor shall request; (D) to the division of legislative administrative services as the director of legislative administrative services shall request; and (E) to the judicial branch of state government as the chief justice of the supreme court shall request.

(3) The secretary of state shall distribute: (A) Two sets to each representative in congress and United States senator from the state of Kansas, upon request by such representative or senator; (B) one set each to the governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general; (C) to Washburn university school of law, the number of sets, not to exceed 60 sets, that the librarian of the school of law certifies to the secretary of state as necessary for the purpose of exchanging with other states and territories and to be kept in the library for the use of faculty and students of the university; (D) to the school of law of the university of Kansas, the number of sets, not to exceed 60 sets, that the librarian of the school of law certifies to the secretary of state as necessary for the purpose of exchanging with other states and territories and to be kept in the library for the use of faculty and students of the university; (E) to the clerk of the district court of the United States for the state of Kansas, the number of sets, not to exceed five sets, as are requested by such clerk; (F) one set to each county law library in the state, upon request by the librarian thereof; (G) to each county clerk, the number of sets requested by the county clerk, not to exceed seven sets, to be distributed not more than one set each to the county or district attorney, the county clerk, the county counselor, if any, the register of deeds, the sheriff, the county treasurer, and the board of county commissioners, which set shall be retained by the county clerk for use by such board; (H) not more than one set to each city of the third class, one set to each city of the second class and two sets to each city of the first class, upon request by the city clerk; and (I) one set to the state historical society library.

Third, the balance of statute books, after the above distribution shall be kept by the secretary of state for sale.

(b) The secretary of state shall sell each volume of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, including replacement volumes, at the per volume price fixed therefor by the legislative coordinating council under this section. General index volumes, when sold separately and not as a part of a set of cumulative supplements, shall be sold at the per volume price fixed therefor by the legislative coordinating council. The secretary of state shall remit all moneys received from such sales under this section to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215, and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury to the credit of the state general fund.

(c) The legislative coordinating council shall fix the per volume price of each volume of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, including replacement volumes, sold under this section to recover the costs of printing and binding such volumes. The legislative coordinating council shall revise such prices from time to time for the purposes of covering and recovering such costs.

History: L. 1963, ch. 454, § 8; L. 1965, ch. 504, § 1; L. 1967, ch. 483, § 1; L. 1972, ch. 350, § 1; L. 1973, ch. 388, § 1; L. 1974, ch. 135, § 18; L. 1976, ch. 147, § 10; L. 1976, ch. 151, §9; L. 1978, ch. 385, § 1; L. 1980, ch. 302, § 1; L. 1982, ch. 384, § 1; L. 1988, ch. 365, § 1; L. 1990, ch. 339, § 4; L. 2001, ch. 5, § 437; July 1.