(a) The Legislative Council shall contract with a competent legal publisher to revise and publish the Vermont Statutes Annotated.

(b) The contract for publishing the Vermont Statutes Annotated shall provide for the annual editing and publishing of cumulative pocket part supplements after each biennial and adjourned legislative session for the duration of the contract. The cumulative pocket part supplements shall include all the codified laws that were enacted during the concluded biennial or adjourned session of the General Assembly, and during any special session that has occurred since the last annual publication. Each edition of the cumulative pocket part supplements to the Vermont Statutes Annotated shall include all annotations of constructions of the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont and all federal courts of the United States, available at the closing date of each edition of the pocket parts.

(c) The contracted publisher shall, as provided in the contract, or as statutorily directed by the General Assembly, publish replacement volumes of existing titles, or separate volumes of new titles, of the Vermont Statutes Annotated. (Added 2001, No. 30, § 1.)