(a) The State Librarian shall deliver the Acts and Resolves as follows: to the Secretary of State, six copies; to the Clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court for the use of the Court, one copy; to the Governor's Office and to the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, one copy each; to the Library of Congress, four copies; to each county clerk, three copies; one to each of the following officers and institutions: each department of the U.S. government and upon request to federal libraries, elective and appointive State officers, the clerk of each State board or commission, superintendent of each State institution, the library of the University of Vermont, the library of Castleton University, the libraries of Johnson and Lyndon State Colleges, Vermont Technical College, Middlebury College, Norwich University, St. Michael's College, senators and representatives of this State in Congress, members of the General Assembly during the session at which such laws were adopted, the Secretary and Assistant Secretary of the Senate, Clerk and Assistant Clerks of the House of Representatives, the judges, attorney, marshall, and clerk of the U.S. District Court in this State, the judge of the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals from Vermont, Justices and ex-Justices of the Supreme Court, Superior judges, the reporter of decisions, judges and registers of probate, sheriffs, State's Attorneys, town clerks; one each, upon request and as the available supply permits, to assistant judges, justices of the peace, the chair of the legislative body of each municipality, and town treasurers; one within the State, to the Vermont Historical Society, to each county or regional bar law library, and one copy to each state or territorial library or Supreme Court library, and foreign library which makes available to Vermont its comparable publication, provided that if any of these officials hold more than one of the offices named, that official shall be entitled to only one copy.

(b) The State Librarian shall distribute the copies of Vermont Statutes Annotated and cumulative pocket part supplements thereto, when issued, as follows: one each to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker of the House of Representatives, the State Treasurer, Secretary of State, Auditor of Accounts, Adjutant General, Commissioner of Buildings and General Services, Commissioner of Taxes, Sergeant at Arms, and the head of each administrative department; four copies to the Attorney General; one to each town clerk, three to each county clerk; one to each Probate judge and two to the Clerk of the Supreme Court; one to each ex-Justice and Justice of the Supreme Court, each Superior judge and State's Attorney; two to the judge of the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals from Vermont and four to the U.S. district judges for the District of Vermont. One copy shall be given to each State institution, each county or regional bar law library, each university, college, and public library, as requested, and as many sets as are needed to effect exchange with State libraries and State law libraries. Current copies of the Vermont Statutes Annotated and supplements shall be kept for use in the offices of the officers and institutions mentioned. One copy shall be given to each member of the Commission established by 1 V.S.A. chapter 3 and counsel therefor, unless they are authorized to receive one in another capacity, and one to each of the 15 members of the Joint Special Committee on Revision of the Laws authorized by 1959 Acts and Resolves No. 86. Additional copies may be sold to parties identified in this subsection at a price to be fixed by the State Librarian. (Amended 1959, No. 262, § 36, eff. June 11, 1959; 1961, No. 30, § 1, eff. March 17, 1961; 1969, No. 52, § 1, eff. April 10, 1969; 1969, No. 226 (Adj. Sess.), § 11, eff. March 31, 1970; 1971, No. 162 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974; 1995, No. 109 (Adj. Sess.), § 3; 1995, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 4(a), eff. May 6, 1996; 1997, No. 59, § 17, eff. June 30, 1997; 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 187; 2017, No. 74, § 120.)