Section 6. Department printing

1. The department printing, constituting the
  second  part  hereinbefore  described,  shall  include  (a)  the blanks,
  circulars, blank books, pamphlets, envelopes,  letter  and  note  heads,
  other  than  those required for the use of the legislature and all other
  printing work for the various  departments,  agencies,  commissions  and
  institutions  of  the  state within the executive branch, other than the
  legislature, including the reports and bulletins  and  (b)  all  of  the
  printing  required  by  section  eighty-two  of  the  election  law. The
  commissioner  of  general  services  may  exclude  from  the  department
  printing  and  classify as supplies such blanks, circulars, blank books,
  pamphlets,  envelopes,  letter  heads  and  note  heads,  snap-out   and
  continuous forms, and similar printing, as he deems proper, and may also
  divide  and  classify  the  department  printing  into two or more parts
  according to the kind, quality or quantity of work, or otherwise, as the
  commissioner may determine; and, pursuant to this chapter, may advertise
  for and let separate contracts for each of such parts. The  commissioner
  may,  from  time  to  time,  modify  any  exclusion or classification of
  department printing made pursuant to this section.
    2. Any state officer, department, commission, institution or board may
  deliver the copy of its report to the  commissioner  on  or  before  the
  first  day  of  August,  or  as soon thereafter as possible, and when so
  delivered shall be ordered printed for transmission to  the  legislature
  in  printed  form.  The commissioner in addition to the number of copies
  thereof required to be distributed pursuant to  section  forty-seven  of
  the  legislative  law,  shall  direct  the printing of as many copies of
  reports of state officers, departments,  commissions,  institutions  and
  boards  as  the heads of such departments, commissions, institutions and
  boards may deem necessary. The nature  and  amount  of  material  to  be
  included  in  such  reports  and  the  form,  contents  and frequency of
  publications  and  of  all  other  printing  for  the  respective  state
  officers,  departments,  commissions,  institutions  and boards shall be
  determined by the head of each department, commission,  institution  and
  board.
    4.  No report of any institution, board or commission shall be printed
  as hereinbefore provided for where the same is or can be printed  by  or
  in the institution making the same.
    5. Whenever any department shall, under the provisions of law, issue a
  portion  of  its annual report in advance in the form of bulletins, such
  bulletins shall be printed by the contractor at the rates  provided  for
  in his contract.
    6.  a.  The commissioner shall have power to subdivide into groups the
  work embraced in the department  printing  and  to  award  separate  and
  distinct contracts for each such group, or for any combination of one or
  more  of  such  groups,  for  any period not exceeding two years, as the
  commissioner shall deem in the best interests of the state.
    b. In the case of any printing authorized by this  section,  no  extra
  charge shall be made except for extra paper or work beyond that required
  by the terms of the contract actually furnished with the approval of the
  comptroller,  and for such extra paper and work the charge allowed shall
  not exceed the current market rates.  Composition shall not be charged a
  second time by the same contractor on matter printed from  type  already
  set  or  negatives or plates made at state expense, but the commissioner
  may make suitable  allowance  for  handling  of  plates  and  reimposing
  negatives  or  type  forms.  In  all work requiring engraving and in all
  cases where illustrations are used,  the  dies,  plates  and  engravings
  shall  forthwith  become  the  property  of the state, and thereafter no
  charge  shall  be  made  for  their  subsequent  use,  except  that  the
  comptroller  may  make  a  suitable  allowance  for  the handling of the

  plates. In all work manufactured by the process of lithography or  photo
  composition,  the artwork, camera ready mechanicals, and negatives shall
  forthwith become the property of the state.
    7. Whenever any officer, bureau, board, commission, or any corporation
  or  association  shall  make  to more than one officer or body an annual
  report, the contractor shall not print such report  for  the  year  more
  than  once  at public expense, and the filing of a copy of the report as
  so printed shall be deemed a compliance with any law requiring a  report
  to  any  other  officer  or  body  than  the  one  to which the original
  manuscript report was submitted;  and  any  institution  which  makes  a
  report  to  any  bureau,  department  or  commission,  which  report  is
  thereafter included in the annual report of said bureau,  department  or
  commission  to the legislature, shall not be entitled for its own use to
  additional  copies  of  said  report,  unless   otherwise   specifically
  provided.
    8.  All  extra  copies  of reports printed for the use of departments,
  institutions and boards shall be delivered by  the  contractor  to  said
  state officers, departments, institutions and boards.
    9.  All  copies  of  messages  and  reports printed for the use of the
  legislature shall be delivered, one-third to the secretary of the senate
  and two-thirds to the clerk of the assembly, and shall be distributed as
  the legislature shall direct.