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a statute or regulation. This is a sword that can cut both
ways. With our compilation and present system of filing
things, it is impossible to establish knowledge in regard
to an obscure department regulation. However with
Constitutional sanction and a system directed by the General
Assembly with Constitutional teeth in it, there would be
no defense that the law or statute was not known. It might
be difficult to locate it by going to the compilation, but
the defense of ignorance would not hold. I urge you in the
strongest possible manner to provide for a compilation
and publication of the laws of this state.
Chairman Gallagher has made a great point in
making sure that the laws are enacted exactly. I think it
is equally important that the poeple of this state know what
their laws are.
THE CHAIRMAN: Are there any questions of the
sponsor? Delegate Boileau.
DELEGATE BOILEAU: Delegate Grant, are you aware
that the General Assembly in the 1967 session did provide
in part for what you suggest here as far as municipalities
and counties are concerned?