As Amended
SEC. 1-1-59. Provision and maintenance of Code in electronic form.
From and after July 1, 1998, the Joint Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation, and until July 1, 1998, the Attorney General and the Secretary of State, acting jointly, are hereby authorized to contract with a reputable and competent company to perform any services necessary to update any computer tape furnished with the Mississippi Code of 1972, and to provide for and update a CD-ROM (compact disc, read-only memory) or other technological medium containing the Mississippi Code of 1972 and its annotations, so that all laws of a general nature passed by the Legislature subsequent to the 1971 Session thereof will be incorporated therein in the same format as the pocket part supplements and supplemental material contained in replacement volumes to the Code of 1972. If the same cannot be contracted for, at and for a consideration considered reasonable the officers or joint committee, as the case may be, are authorized to request the Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services to perform such services and to pay over to the department such sums as may be appropriated for such purposes, and the Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services is hereby authorized to expend such sums as paid over for the employment of personnel and the purchase of such services, supplies, materials and equipment as may be required to perform the work.
SOURCES: Laws, 1973, ch. 366, Sec. 5; 1979, ch. 323, Sec. 3; 1996, ch. 502, Sec. 13, eff from and after passage (approved April 11, 1996)