(a) The department may enter into a contract with:
(1) a recognized and financially responsible advertising agency that has at least five years’ experience handling similar accounts for the contracting of space in newspapers and periodicals for the publication of advertising information, historical facts, statistics, and pictures that will be useful and informative to persons outside this state; and
(2) motion picture producers and other persons for making movies or taking photographs in this state and for the showing of those movies and photographs.
(b) The department may join with another agency of this state in publishing informational publicity material under this section.