HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                 753

report upon the laws of this and other states relating to
any subject upon which [he] THE DIRECTOR may be requested so
to report by the Governor of Maryland, and any committee or
member of the General Assembly, or the head of any State
department; to accumulate all data obtainable in relation to
the practical operation and effect of such laws; to
investigate and collect all available information relating
to any matter which is the subject of proposed legislation
by the General Assembly; to examine the acts and records of
any state and report the results thereof to the Governor,
any committee of the General Assembly, or the head of any
State department requesting the same; to prepare or aid in
the preparation of any bill or resolution when requested so
to do by any member of the General Assembly IN THE STYLE OF
STATUTORY LAW DESCRIBED IN THE STYLE MANUAL MAINTAINED BY
THE REVISOR OF STATUTES; to preserve and collate all
information obtained, carefully indexed and arranged so as
to be at all times easily accessible to State officials and
open to the inspection of the general public; and to have an
office at Annapolis.

53C.

Subject to the general supervision and control of the
Director of the Department of Legislative Reference, the
Revisor of Statutes shall:

(1)  Make recommendations for formal revision of the
public general laws of Maryland as embodied in the Annotated
Code of Maryland, including their reclassification,
rearrangement, renumbering, and rewording[.];

(2)  Make recommendations concerning appropriate

systems for collecting and publishing the public local laws
of Maryland, executive orders, and administrative rules and
regulations[. ];

(3)  Carry on the work of continuous formal revision of
the statutory law of the State by preparing and submitting
recommendations to the General Assembly for the repeal,
amendments, or other modification of any statute which is
obsolete, antiquated, in conflict with another statute, or
inconsistent with another statute; or which has been
declared unconstitutional or otherwise is in need of formal
revision[.];

(4) Make recommendations to correct manifest spelling,
grammatical, clerical, or typographical errors, or errors by
way of additions or omissions[, as well as generally to
maintain];

(5)  MAINTAIN the clarity, simplicity, and consistency
of style of statutory law[.] AND MAINTAIN A STYLE MANUAL FOR
STATUTORY LAW;

(6)  INCLUDE IN THE STYLE MANUAL A DRAFTING RULE THAT
REQUIRES, TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE, THE USE OF WORDS THAT