The Joint Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation shall purchase such numbers of sets of the pocket part supplements and the replacement volumes, including index replacement volumes, as may be required to maintain in a current status the sets of the Code of 1972 authorized to be furnished under the provisions of Section 1-1-11, and shall distribute or provide for the distribution of the same to the proper parties. In furtherance of the State Library's reciprocal program of Code exchange with libraries of the several states, the joint committee shall, at the direction and only upon the written request of the State Librarian, distribute or provide for the distribution of those supplements and replacement volumes to such libraries.
Miss. Code § 1-1-57