Montana Code 18-7-306. Public disclosure of costs
18-7-306. Public disclosure of costs. Each agency shall include a public disclosure of costs on all public documents. The public disclosure must contain the following statement, with required information inserted, to be printed on the exterior cover of the publication: “… copies of this public document were published at an estimated cost of $… per copy, for a total cost of $…, which includes $… for printing and $… for distribution.” This statement must be printed in the same size type as the text of the document and must be set in a box composed of a 1-point rule. If the cost of publication cannot be reasonably estimated at the time of publication, the publications must contain the following statement on the exterior cover in lieu of the statement concerning estimated cost: “This document printed at state expense. Information on the cost of publication may be obtained by contacting the department of administration.”
Terms Used In Montana Code 18-7-306
- Agency: means each state office, department, board, commission, council, committee, unit of the university system, or other entity or instrumentality of the executive branch, office of the legislative branch, or office of the judicial branch of state government. See Montana Code 18-7-302
- Department: means the department of administration provided for in Title 2, chapter 15, part 10. See Montana Code 18-7-302
- Printing: means the act of reproducing a design on a surface by any process. See Montana Code 1-1-203
- Public document: means any publication of an agency that is meant for dissemination to the public, but does not include educational materials published by a unit of the university system or the superintendent of public instruction, reports of the legislative auditor, travel promotion materials, standard forms, bid specifications, opinions of the attorney general, opinions of the supreme court, session laws, the Administrative Rules of Montana, the Montana Code Annotated, or regular periodical publications sold to the general public solely through subscription and newsstand sale. See Montana Code 18-7-302
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201