The Department of Administration may inquire at any time into all matters pertaining to the contracts for the public printing and the distribution of official reports and publications and may prevent unnecessary printing, binding, lithographing, or engraving. It may see that all extraneous matter is omitted from any publication paid for out of the public printing fund or any fund of any state department or state institution and may recommend from time to time to the General Assembly appropriate remedial legislation. The Department of Administration has control of the style and arrangement of all public printing except for legislative printing and printing otherwise provided by law.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-502; 1952 Code Section 1-502; 1942 Code Section 2087; 1932 Code Section 2087; Civ. C. '22 Section 49; 1916 (29) 709; 1950 (46) 3605; 1985 Act No. 201, Part II, Section 81C.
Code Commissioner's Note
At the direction of the Code Commissioner, references in this section to the offices of the former State Budget and Control Board, Office of the Governor, or other agencies, were changed to reflect the transfer of them to the Department of Administration or other entities, pursuant to the directive of the South Carolina Restructuring Act, 2014 Act No. 121, Section 5(D)(1), effective July 1, 2015.