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2011 SESSION

11101153D
SENATE BILL NO. 1297
Offered January 12, 2011
Prefiled January 12, 2011
A BILL to amend and reenact § 42.1-62 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the State Law Library; responsibility for placement of certain law books.
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Patron-- Ruff
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Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That § 42.1-62 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 42.1-62. Additions to Library.

The Supreme Court shall, from time to time, make additions to the State Law Library by purchases, and may lease or purchase computer terminals for the purpose of retrieving available legal reference data, with funds at its disposal for these purposes, and may cause books to be transferred from one law library to another. All law books acquired by the Commonwealth by gift, or by exchange, from the United States, or other states and countries, shall be placed in the Library.The Director of the Department of Purchases and Supply shall have placed in the State Law Library at Richmond, and in the branch thereof at Staunton, a copy of every law book required by §§ 17.1-319 and 30-34.5.