shall be paid into the account. All moneys in the account are

171.236 shall be paid into the account. All moneys in the account are appropriated continuously for and shall be used for the purposes described in ORS 171.236.

����� (2) Disbursements of moneys from the Legislative Publications Account shall be approved by either of the presiding officers of the Legislative Assembly; but the presiding officers may jointly designate an individual to approve disbursements from the account. A statement designating the individual, together with a sample of the individual�s signature, shall be filed as provided in ORS 293.335. [1965 c.424 �3; 1969 c.174 �2; 1981 c.517 �16; 1999 c.117 �9]

����� 171.250 [Repealed by 1965 c.424 �8]

����� 171.255 Evidentiary status of published session laws. The laws enacted by the Legislative Assembly and by the people, when published in accordance with the provisions of ORS 171.236, shall be received in all courts of this state as an authorized publication of the laws of Oregon published therein. [1965 c.424 �2; 1981 c.517 �17]

����� 171.260 [Amended by 1959 c.577 �5; repealed by 1965 c.424 �8]

����� 171.270 Legislative materials furnished to public officers without charge are public property. Except as otherwise provided by or pursuant to law, the copies of the legislative materials referred to in ORS 171.236 furnished free of charge to the public officers of this state pursuant to law are public property and shall be delivered over by them to their successors in office. [Amended by 1969 c.174 �3; 1981 c.517 �18]

����� 171.272 [1953 c.546 �1; 1961 c.167, �27; renumbered 173.152]

OREGON REVISED STATUTES

����� 171.275 Oregon Revised Statutes; committee policy; charges. (1) Each biennium, the Legislative Counsel, under the direction of the Legislative Counsel Committee, shall publish and distribute the Oregon Revised Statutes, including an index and annotations.

����� (2) Each biennium, the Legislative Counsel shall solicit bids for the printing of the Oregon Revised Statutes.

����� (3) The Legislative Counsel Committee shall establish policies for the revision, clarification, classification, arrangement, codification, annotation, indexing, printing, binding, publication, copyrighting, sale and distribution of the publications referred to in subsection (1) of this section.

����� (4) The Legislative Counsel Committee shall establish the charges necessary to recover the costs of publishing the materials sold and distributed under this section. [1981 c.517 �11 (enacted in lieu of 173.150); 2003 c.207 �1; 2009 c.554 �1]

����� 171.280 [1963 c.418 �2; repealed by 1969 c.174 �5]

����� 171.285 Legislative Counsel certificate. (1) When any edition of the statutes, or part or supplement designed to replace parts of or to supplement a previous edition and to bring such edition up to date, is published by the Legislative Counsel Committee, the Legislative Counsel shall cause to be printed in the edition, part or supplement a certificate that the Legislative Counsel has compared each section in such edition, part or supplement with the original section in the enrolled bill or, if the enrolled bill is stored in a computer or similar device, with any printout or other output readable by sight, shown to reflect the enrolled bill accurately, and that, with the exception of the changes in form permitted by ORS 173.160 and other changes specifically authorized by law, the sections in the published edition, part or supplement are correctly copied.

����� (2) Any edition, part or supplement certified as provided in subsection (1) of this section shall constitute prima facie evidence of the law in all courts and proceedings, and any section in such edition, part or supplement may be amended or repealed by amending or repealing such section of the edition, part or supplement without reference to the legislative Act from which it was derived. No compilation of the statute laws of Oregon not bearing such certificate, or a similar certificate of the Reviser of Statutes, shall be admissible as evidence of the law in any court or proceeding. [Formerly 173.170; 1983 c.740 �37]

����� 171.295 Preservation and use of ORS medium. (1) In any contract for the printing of the Oregon Revised Statutes, the Legislative Counsel Committee may provide for preservation or purchase, on behalf of the state, of the medium from which the statutes were printed.

����� (2) The committee may permit the use of the medium or material printed from the medium for the production of pamphlets of particular portions of the statutes requested by any public agency, under the terms and conditions that the committee considers reasonable. [Formerly 173.180; 2003 c.207 �2]

����� 171.305 ORS Revolving Account. (1) The proceeds from the sale of an edition or publication made pursuant to ORS 171.275 shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of a revolving account for the use of the Legislative Counsel Committee in publishing and distributing future editions or publications. The account, to be known as the ORS Revolving Account, is continuously appropriated to the committee for this purpose.

����� (2) There shall also be deposited to the credit of the ORS Revolving Account any moneys received through the sale of a medium of publication belonging to the Legislative Counsel Committee or any moneys received by the committee in connection with the use of a medium, or material printed with a medium pursuant to ORS 171.295.

����� (3) The Legislative Counsel Committee, from time to time, may cause to be transferred from the ORS Revolving Account to the General Fund the moneys that the committee considers unnecessary for use in publishing and distributing future editions or publications.

����� (4) Any unexpended and unobligated balance in the ORS Revolving Account in excess of $500,000 as of July 1 of any odd-numbered year, as certified by the Legislative Counsel, shall be transferred from the account to the General Fund to be available for general governmental expenditures. [Formerly 173.250; 1983 c.178 �4; 1991 c.579 �1; 2003 c.207 �3; 2011 c.630 �81]

����� 171.315 Distribution of ORS. (1) The Legislative Counsel shall provide one set of Oregon Revised Statutes, including an index and annotations:

����� (a) For each member of the Legislative Assembly.

����� (b) For each judgeship, the salary of which is paid by the state.

����� (2)(a) The costs of providing sets to members of the Legislative Assembly shall be paid from the appropriations made for the payment of the expenses of the Legislative Assembly. The Legislative Counsel shall provide the sets to the Legislative Administrator.

����� (b) The costs of providing sets pursuant to subsection (1)(b) of this section shall be paid from the state appropriations made for the payment of the expenses of the various judgeships. [Formerly 173.152; 2003 c.207 �4]

����� 171.325 Certified copy of statute or rule of civil procedure published in Oregon Revised Statutes; form; fee. (1) Upon request of any person, the Secretary of State may certify under the seal of the State of Oregon:

����� (a) A copy of any statute of this state published in the Oregon Revised Statutes.

����� (b) A copy of any rule contained in the Oregon Rules of Civil Procedure and published in the Oregon Revised Statutes.

����� (2) The certification of the Secretary of State shall state that the statute or rule was published in the Oregon Revised Statutes and shall specify the edition of the Oregon Revised Statutes in which the statute or rule appeared.

����� (3) The Secretary of State may charge a fee for the cost of reproducing and certifying a copy of a statute or rule requested under this section. [1983 c.245 �1]

RECORDS

����� 171.405 Binding original enrolled laws and joint resolutions. The Legislative Counsel Committee shall cause the original enrolled laws and joint resolutions passed at each session of the Legislative Assembly to be bound in a volume in a substantial manner in the order in which they are approved. The Legislative Counsel Committee is not required to keep any further record of the official acts of the Legislative Assembly, so far as relates to Acts and joint resolutions. [Formerly