                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CONTRACTING WITH PUBLISHERS; PROPERTY RIGHTS REGARDING CODE OF VIRGINIA AND
VIRGINIA ADMINISTRATIVE CODE MATERIAL (§ 30-147)

A. The Commission may enter into contracts with any reputable person for such
editorial work, printing, indexing, annotating and other work as may be
necessary. All parts of any code published or authorized to be published by the
Commission, including statute text, regulation text, catchlines, historical
citations, numbers of sections, articles, chapters and titles, frontal analyses
and revisor&#8217;s notes, shall become and remain the exclusive property of the
Commonwealth to be used only as the Commission may direct. However, the
Commission shall acknowledge a property right in and the right to copyright
materials prepared and added to any code by the person preparing it. Such
materials may include, inter alia, case annotations, indices, various notes
concerning sections and reference tables.

B. Trade secrets or proprietary information submitted by any person contracting
or proposing to contract with the Commission in connection with the publication
of (i) the Code of Virginia, (ii) the Virginia Administrative Code or (iii) any
other materials published by the Commission shall not be subject to public
disclosure under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (&#xA7; 2.2-3700 et
seq.). However, the person or firm shall invoke the protections of this
subsection prior to or upon submission of the data or other materials to be
protected and state the reasons why protection is necessary. The Commission may,
in closed session, discuss, consider, review or deliberate upon proposals which
contain trade secrets or proprietary information submitted by any person
contracting or proposing to contract with the Commission in connection with the
publication of the Code of Virginia or the Virginia Administrative Code.

HISTORY: 1983, c. 260, § 9-77.8; 1992, c. 216; 1993, c. 505; 1994, c. 820;
2001, c. 844.