Section 15. Fees to be charged for certain documents

1. Except as herein
  otherwise provided, no blank, report, pamphlet or other document printed
  pursuant to law by or under the supervision and  direction  of  a  state
  department,  or  a division, officer, board, bureau, commission or other
  state agency, included within such department,  shall  be  furnished  or
  distributed  to  any  person  except on payment of a fee therefor, to be
  fixed as herein provided.
    2. The head of each state department shall adopt rules and regulations
  governing  the  printing  and  distribution  of  all  blanks,   reports,
  pamphlets  and  other  documents  printed  by or under the direction and
  supervision of his department,  or  of  any  officer,  board,  division,
  bureau,   commission   or   other  state  agency  included  within  such
  department, and containing an itemized schedule of fees  to  be  charged
  therefor.  Such  rules  and  regulations  shall  be  submitted  by  such
  department head to the director of the budget  and,  upon  his  approval
  thereof,  shall  have  the  force  and  effect  of  law.  Such rules and
  regulations may be revised from time to time, subject to the approval of
  such director. In preparing such schedule of fees each  department  head
  shall  be  guided,  as far as possible, by the unit cost to the state of
  the preparation, printing and  distribution  of  such  blanks,  reports,
  pamphlets  and  other  documents. A copy of the rules and regulations in
  force for each department shall be at all times conspicuously  displayed
  in the principal office of such department and in the particular portion
  of  such  department  where  the  blanks,  reports,  pamphlets and other
  documents of the department are available for distribution.
    3. No fee shall be charged for furnishing a report or  other  document
  which  is  required  by law to be made or furnished to the governor, the
  legislature or to any of the state departments, and the director of  the
  budget may prescribe other cases in which no fee shall be charged.
    4.  A  true  record  and account of all fees received pursuant to this
  section shall be kept by the head  of  each  department  or  by  someone
  delegated by him to perform such task.
    5.  Nothing  herein  contained  shall  apply  to reports, documents or
  pamphlets furnished to the governor, a  member  of  the  legislature,  a
  representative of the press, the head of any state department.
    6.  All  fees collected by the commissioner of transportation pursuant
  to the provisions of this section shall be deposited by the  comptroller
  into the special obligation reserve and payment account of the dedicated
  highway   and   bridge   trust  fund  established  pursuant  to  section
  eighty-nine-b of this chapter.