RS 43:1
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RS 43:1
TITLE 43
PUBLIC PRINTING AND ADVERTISEMENTS
CHAPTER 1. STATE PRINTING
§1. Purchase of printing and engraving; office of technology services; Louisiana Procurement Code; power and authority of state chief information officer
A. All administrative boards, commissions, departments, agencies, institutions, and offices within the executive branch of the state government shall purchase all requirements of printing and engraving through the office of technology services in the division of administration. This provision, however, shall not apply to postsecondary institutions of education and their management boards, the Board of Regents, special schools, and other institutions under the supervision of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, the port authorities of the state, the legislature, the office of the State Bond Commission in the Department of the Treasury, or the judiciary.
All procurement of such printing and engraving for the executive departments of state government shall be done under and in accordance with the provisions of the Louisiana Procurement Code.
B. In order to carry out the duties and functions imposed upon him by this Chapter, in conjunction with the Louisiana Procurement Code, the state chief information officer shall have the power and authority:
(1)To consult, review, and make recommendations with regard to all printing requirements in order that the best and most economical methods may be employed.
(2)To delegate the purchase of printing to any instrumentality covered by this Chapter whenever in his written opinion the best interests of the state will be served thereby.
(3)To use any and all powers and authority granted to him by law or otherwise delegated to him by competent authority.
Acts 1983, No. 306, §2; Acts 1988, No. 843, §1, eff. July 1, 1988; Acts 1997, No. 677, §1; Acts 2015, No. 241, §2.