MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                             1571

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.

Approved May 17, 1976.

CHAPTER 585

(Senate Bill 505)

AN ACT concerning

State Documents Law

FOR the purpose of providing for publication of indices
and an annual cumulative index to the Maryland
Register; clarifying the provisions that relate to
incorporation by reference of certain publications
into the Code of Maryland Regulations and Maryland
Register; modifying the provisions that relate to
required publication before amendment, or repeal of
rules; modifying the procedures for filing emergency
rules; clarifying the provisions that relate to
official texts of documents; specifying the
requirements for amendment and correction of
official texts; specifying that the contents of the
Maryland Register and Code of Maryland Regulations
shall be judicially noticed; requiring certain
procedures before reprinting of certain documents
published in the Maryland Register and Code of
Maryland Regulations; specifying that, except under
certain conditions, provisions of documents are
severable; defining the term "Code of Maryland
Regulations" to include permanent supplements to the
Code and deleting unnecessary references to the
supplement; and clarifying the language of,
renumbering certain provisions of, and generally
relating to the State Documents Law.

BY adding to

Article 41 — Governor — Executive and Administrative

Departments
Section 249(c) and 256B(h)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1971 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 41 — Governor — Executive and Administrative

Departments
Section 256F(c)(3), 256H(a), 256-I (a) and (b),

256J, and 256M
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1971 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)