§ 15. Fees to be charged for certain documents. 1. Except as herein otherwise provided, no blank, report, pamphlet or other document printed pursuant to law by or under the supervision and direction of a state department, or a division, officer, board, bureau, commission or other state agency, included within such department, shall be furnished or distributed to any person except on payment of a fee therefor, to be fixed as herein provided.

2. The head of each state department shall adopt rules and regulations governing the printing and distribution of all blanks, reports, pamphlets and other documents printed by or under the direction and supervision of his department, or of any officer, board, division, bureau, commission or other state agency included within such department, and containing an itemized schedule of fees to be charged therefor. Such rules and regulations shall be submitted by such department head to the director of the budget and, upon his approval thereof, shall have the force and effect of law. Such rules and regulations may be revised from time to time, subject to the approval of such director. In preparing such schedule of fees each department head shall be guided, as far as possible, by the unit cost to the state of the preparation, printing and distribution of such blanks, reports, pamphlets and other documents. A copy of the rules and regulations in force for each department shall be at all times conspicuously displayed in the principal office of such department and in the particular portion of such department where the blanks, reports, pamphlets and other documents of the department are available for distribution.

3. No fee shall be charged for furnishing a report or other document which is required by law to be made or furnished to the governor, the legislature or to any of the state departments, and the director of the budget may prescribe other cases in which no fee shall be charged.

4. A true record and account of all fees received pursuant to this section shall be kept by the head of each department or by someone delegated by him to perform such task.

5. Nothing herein contained shall apply to reports, documents or pamphlets furnished to the governor, a member of the legislature, a representative of the press, the head of any state department.

6. All fees collected by the commissioner of transportation pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be deposited by the comptroller into the special obligation reserve and payment account of the dedicated highway and bridge trust fund established pursuant to section eighty-nine-b of this chapter.