THE LEGISLATIVE LAW CHAP. 37, LAWS OF 1909. AN ACT in relation to legislation, constituting chapter thirty-two of the consolidated laws. Article I. Short title. II. Members, officers and employees of the legis lature (§§ 1-24). III. The enactment and (§§ 40-49). publication of laws IV. Legislative committees; testimony in legislative proceedings (§§ 60-66). V. Laws repealed; when to take effect (§§ 90, 91). ARTICLE I. Short Title. § 1. Short title.- This chapter shall be known as the "Legislative Law." ARTICLE II. Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature. Section 2. Exemption of members and officers from arrest. 3. Expulsion of members. 4. Contempts of either house. 5. Payment of salaries of members. 6. Officers and employees of the senate. 7. Officers and employees of the assembly. 8. Appointments to be entered on journals.` im Section 12. Attendance of officers of each session at opening of next session. 13. Officers remaining after adjournment. 14. Undertaking of clerk of each house. 15. Duties of clerks. 16. Supplies furnished by clerks. 17. Accountability of clerks to comptroller. 18. Duties of postmasters and assistants. 19. Duties of stenographers. 20. Detail of officers and employees for special duties. 21. Limitation, of legislative expenses. 22. Custody of legislative papers and documents. 24. Drafting and revising of bills. § 2. Exemption of members and officers from arrest.A member of the legislature shall be privileged from arrest in a civil action or proceeding other than for a forfeiture or breach of trust in public office or employment, while attending upon its session, and for fourteen days before and after each session, or while absent for not more than fourteen days during the session with leave of the house of which he is a member. An officer of either house shall be privileged from arrest in such a civil action or proceeding while in actual attendance upon the house. Either house shall have the power to discharge from arrest any of its members or officers arrested in violation of his privilege from arrest. § 3. Expulsion of members. Each house has the power to expel any of its members, after the report of a committee to inquire into the charges against him shall have been made. § 4. Contempts of either house.- Each house may punish by imprisonment not extending beyond the same session of the legislature, as for a contempt, for the following offenses only: 1. Arresting a member or officer of either house in violation of his privilege from arrest; 2. Disorderly conduct of its members, officers or others in the immediate view and presence of the house, tending to interrupt its proceedings; 3. The publication of a false and malicious report of its proceedings, or of the conduct of a member in his legislative capacity; 4. Giving or offering a bribe to a member, or attempting, by menace or other corrupt means, directly or indirectly, to influence a member in giving or withholding his vote, or in not attending meetings of the house of which he is a member; 5. Neglect to attend or to be examined as a witness before the house or committee thereof, or upon reason. able notice to produce any material books, papers, or documents, when duly required to give testimony or to produce such books, papers, or documents in a legis. lative proceeding, inquiry, or investigation. § 5. Payment of salaries of members. The salary of a member of the legislature shall be payable during the session, from time to time, at the rate of ten dollars per day, at any time during the session, for the number of days then expired, not exceeding in the aggregate fourteen hundred dollars, before the final adjournment of the legislature. The balance of such salary shall be payable at the final adjournment of the legislature. § 6. Officers and employees of the senate.- The president and temporary president of the senate may each appoint a clerk, a stenographer and messenger. The senate may choose a clerk, a sergeant-at-arms, an assistant sergeant-at-arms, a stenographer, a principal doorkeeper and first assistant doorkeeper. The clerk of the senate may appoint one assistant clerk, a journal clerk, two assistant journal clerks, an executive clerk, five deputy clerks, an index clerk, an assistant index clerk, a revision clerk who shall be an expert in matters pertaining to that position, a financial clerk, a messenger to the financial clerk, a clerk's messenger, a superintendent of documents, four assistant superintendents of documents, a superintendent of the wrapping department, four assistant superintendents of the wrapping department, a postmaster, an assistant postmaster, a postoffice messenger, ten assistant doorkeepers, a janitor and two assistant janitors of the senate chamber and its ante-rooms. The senate shall, by rule, provide for such other general and committee clerks, stenographers, messengers and pages as may be needed, and the method of their appointment, amount of compensation and assignment to duty. The term of all employees as chosen or appointed under this section shall be for the session except that of clerk of the senate, who shall be elected for the term of the senate. § 7. Officers and employees of the assembly.- The speaker of the assembly may appoint a clerk, a stenographer and a messenger to be known as the speaker's clerk, the speaker's stenographer and the speaker's messenger, respectively, and also twelve assistant door keepers, a postmaster, an assistant postmaster, a postoffice messenger, a janitor of the assembly chamber and its ante-rooms, four assistant janitors. The assembly may choose a clerk, a sergeant-at-arms, a stenographer, a principal doorkeeper, who shall act as assistant sergeant-at-arms, and a first and second assistant. The clerk of the assembly may appoint a stenographer to the clerk, a clerk's messenger, an assistant clerk, a journal clerk, two assistant journal clerks, twelve deputy clerks, one of whom shall act as clerk to the committee on engrossed bills, and one as clerk to the committee on revision, who shall be an expert in matters pertaining to that position, an index clerk, two assistant index clerks, an assistant clerk to the committee on engrossed bills, a financial clerk, an assistant financial clerk, a messenger to the financial clerk, a superintendent of the wrapping department, five assistants to the superintendent of the wrapping department, a mail and document carrier, a superintendent of documents, five assistant superintendents of documents, a tally clerk. The assembly shall, by rule, provide for such other general and committee clerks, stenographers, messengers and pages as may be needed, and the method of their appointment, amount of compensation and assignment to duty. § 7-a. Legislative library, librarian and assistants.— There shall be a legislative library, to be located in the state capitol in rooms assigned by the trustees of public buildings, conveniently accessible to the members of both houses of the legislature, and such library shall be open throughout the year. |