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Nothing contained herein shall be construed

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to present any such body from holding an executive

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session from which the public is excluded, but no ordinance,

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rule or regulation shall be finally adopted at such an

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executive session.

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The same thing in another section of the code

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applies to county commissioners. The same thing also

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applies to all of the executive branches of the government,

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and it says "All meetings, regular and special, of the

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boards or commissions in control of any department, bureau

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or other agency in the executive department of the

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government of Maryland shall be public meetings and open to

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the public at all times and goes to exceptions, of course,

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for executive sessions.

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Nobody, not even the experts in Washington,

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wanted to say that the legislature should not have

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executive sessions, or that the officials of the State

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government could not confer among themselves in private,

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Some of this excitement is based on the federal

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right to know act. In the federal government it is an

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entirely different situation. There it applies only to the