CHAPTER 8

(HB 1028)

Bureau of Information and Telecommunications, restrictions
removed regarding state communications.

         ENTITLED, An Act to  remove certain restrictions on the Bureau of Information and Telecommunications regarding state communications.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:

     Section  1.  That § 1-13-1 be amended to read as follows:

     1-13-1.   The Bureau of Information and Telecommunications may purchase the necessary apparatus and equipment to construct or establish a broadcasting station at the state capitol at Pierre, South Dakota, which broadcasting station shall be used solely for the transmission of state business and information state communications system which shall be used solely for the transmission of business and information for state, federal, and local government and other public safety entities . The bureau may also purchase receiving sets in such quantities as may be most economical to facilitate the speedy transmission of messages and state information.

     The bureau is charged with the operation and maintenance of the broadcasting station state communications system .

     Signed February 25, 2004.

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