164-10. Supplements to the General Statutes; rearrangement of laws, and correction of errors.
The Legislative Services Office shall have the following duties and powers with regard to the supplements to the General Statutes:
(1) Within six months after the adjournment of each General Assembly, or as soon thereafter as possible, the Legislative Services Office shall cause to be published under its supervision, cumulative supplements to the General Statutes, and any replacement or recompiled volumes thereof, which shall contain an accurate transcription of all laws of a general and permanent nature enacted by the General Assembly, the material contained in the next preceding supplement, complete and accurate annotations to the statutes, appendix and other material accumulated since the publication of the next preceding supplement, and a cumulative index of said material.
(2) Periodically, every six months after the publication and issuance of a cumulative supplement following a session of the General Assembly, or as soon thereafter as possible, the Legislative Services Office shall cause to be published an interim supplement containing all pertinent annotations and other material found by the Legislative Services Office to be necessary and proper, accumulating since the publication of the said cumulative supplement or the last interim supplement.
(3) In the preparation of the general and permanent laws enacted by the General Assembly the Legislative Services Office is hereby authorized:
a. To rearrange the order of chapters, subchapters, articles, sections and other divisions or subdivisions;
b. To provide titles for any such divisions or subdivisions and section titles or catchlines when they are not provided by such laws;
c. To adopt a uniform system of lettering or numbering sections and the various subdivisions thereof and to reletter or renumber sections and section subdivisions in accordance with such uniform system;
d. To rearrange definitions in alphabetical order;
e. To rearrange lists of counties in alphabetical order; and
f. To make such other changes in arrangement and form that do not change the law as may be found by the Legislative Services Office necessary for an accurate, clear and orderly codification of such general and permanent laws.