984                              LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 411

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1967.

Approved April 21, 1967.

CHAPTER 411
(Senate Bill 20)

AN ACT to add a new Section 7 to Article 25A of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Chartered Counties of
Maryland," to follow immediately after Section 6 thereof, and to
be under the new subtitle "Publication of Laws," providing certain
requirements for the compilation and publication of the laws
enacted by charter counties in this State, and relating generally
to the terms and conditions of this requirement and to the duties
of the State Department of Legislative Reference, THE STATE
COMPTROLLER AND CERTAIN OTHER OFFICIALS AND
AGENCIES OF THE STATE GOVERNMENT AND OF ITS
POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS in connection therewith.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That a new Section 7 be and it is hereby added to Article 25A
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Chartered
Counties of Maryland," to follow immediately after Section 6 thereof,
to be under the new subtitle "Publication of Laws," and to read as
follows:

Publication of Laws
7.

(a)    At the end of each calendar OR FISCAL year, each charter
county shall publish FURNISH in a convenient and legible compila-
tion a complete set of all laws enacted during that year under the
"Express Powers Act" in Section 5 of this Article, whether to enact,
amend, or repeal a local law. The laws in the compilation shall be in
numerical sequence, beginning with No. 1, and in a separate series
for each year.

(b)    Copies of this compilation shall be made available for in-
spection at the office of the county council, county executive, or
county manager, during normal business hours; and copies shall
be kept on permanent record in the same office. Copies also shall be
furnished to the Hall of Records Commission, the State Library, and
to each member of the legislative delegation of the county. The
foregoing copies shall be furnished without charge, and the county
also may make other copies available at a reasonable cost to any
person.

(c)    Not later than March 1 of the next succeeding year, the
charter county, without charge, shall furnish five copies of the com-
pilation to the State Department of Legislative Reference; and if
the copies are not then delivered by the date the several local laws
contained therein are automatically revoked and of no further effect.

In this event, any local law contained in the compilation must be
re-enacted in order to have any force and effect, subject thereafter

to the same requirements for publication and delivery.