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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 1006

conditions; providing greater access in certain
circumstances to investigative, intelligence, and
security records; generally revising the provisions
relating to the right to inspect public records; making
changes in the provisions permitting denial of public
records or any portion thereof; providing an
administrative review; providing for judicial
enforcement; creating civil liability for violations;
providing for appropriate personnel disciplinary
action; providing for the removal of the subsections
allowing special treatment of public records in Harford
County; providing for statutory limitation on the right
to bring an action; and clarifying language.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 76A - Public Information

Section 1 through 5, inclusive

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1975 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 76A — Public Information

Section 1A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1975 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 5-110

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1974 Volume and 1977 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 76A - Public Information

[As used in this article;]

(A) IN THIS ARTICLE THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE
MEANINGS INDICATED.

[(a) The term "public] (B) "PUBLIC records" when not
otherwise specified shall include any paper, correspondence,
form, book, photograph, photostat, film, microfilm, sound
recording, map, drawing, or other WRITTEN document,
regardless of physical form or characteristics, and
including all copies thereof, that have been made by [the]
ANY BRANCH OF THE State [and any counties, municipalities
and] GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING THE LEGISLATIVE, JUDICIAL, AND
EXECUTIVE BRANCHES, BY ANY BRANCH OF A political