Distribution of publication expenses - 45 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 505

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     § 505.  Distribution of publication expenses.
        (a)  General rule.--In order to reimburse the Legislative
     Reference Bureau for the cost of administering this part and in
     order to reimburse the Department of General Services for the
     expenses of the joint committee and for the costs incurred in
     printing and distributing the publications provided for in
     Subchapter B of Chapter 7 (relating to publication of documents)
     which are neither recovered by the sale of such publications to
     an agency under section 729 (relating to publication of
     individual documents) and section 731 (relating to automatic
     subscriptions) or to the public under section 504 (relating to
     payment for documents) nor paid by appropriations made directly
     to the bureau or the department for the costs and expenses of
     such administration, printing and distribution, every government
     unit issuing, prescribing or promulgating documents published by
     authority of this part shall be billed at least quarterly by the
     bureau and the Department of General Services, upon a cost
     basis, at such amounts as the joint committee with the approval
     of the Executive Board shall determine, for such costs and
     expenses. Amounts payable under this section for reimbursing the
     bureau and the department for the costs of administration and
     printing and distribution shall be credited to the
     appropriations of the bureau and the department respectively,
     and shall be paid out of the moneys in the General Fund, special
     operating funds, or other funds of the State Treasury currently
     appropriated to each such issuing, prescribing or promulgating
     government unit.
        (b)  Direct appropriation.--Nothing in subsection (a) shall
     limit the right of the General Assembly to make annual
     appropriations to the bureau or the department, or both, for
     their total anticipated costs and expenses under this part.

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