Ch. 416

2003 LAWS OF MARYLAND

MAIN VOLUME. IT SHALL BE CONSIDERED AS EVIDENCE OF THE LAW IN ALL THE
COURTS OF THE STATE AND BY ALL PUBLIC OFFICES AND OFFICERS OF THE STATE
AND ITS POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS.

(C) THE CODE OF PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS, AS COMPILED, UPDATED, AND
MAINTAINED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF LEGISLATIVE SERVICES IN ACCORDANCE
WITH § 2-1243(C) OF THE STATE GOVERNMENT ARTICLE, IS ADOPTED AND MADE
EVIDENCE OF THE PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS OF MARYLAND AS CONTAINED IN THE
CODE OF PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS OF MARYLAND OF 1888, AS AMENDED, MODIFIED,
AND CHANGED FROM TIME TO TIME, THROUGH AND INCLUDING THE MOST
RECENTLY COMPLETED REGULAR SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. IT SHALL
BE CONSIDERED AS THE EVIDENCE OF THE LAW IN ALL COURTS OF THE STATE AND
BY ALL PUBLIC OFFICES AND OFFICERS OF THE STATE AND ITS POLITICAL
SUBDIVISIONS.

Article - State Government

2-1238.

In addition to any duties set forth elsewhere, the Office shall:

(5) make recommendations for the reclassification, rearrangement,
renumbering, rewording, and other formal revision of the public general laws [in the
Code] OF MARYLAND;

(8) [make recommendations on the correction of] CORRECT manifest
spelling, grammatical, or clerical errors or errors of addition or omission IN THE CODE
MAINTAINED BY THE DEPARTMENT, AND INCLUDE ANY SUCH CORRECTION IN THE
ANNUAL CORRECTIVE BILL FOR RATIFICATION BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY;

2-1243.

(c) The Department [is the agency responsible for] SHALL:

(1)      CREATE AND MAINTAIN, IN THE FORM OF A STATUTORY DATABASE,
A CODE COMPRISING THE PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS OF THE STATE; AND

(2)      [maintaining] MAINTAIN the structural integrity and textual
accuracy of [the codified laws of this State] THAT CODE.

2-1247.

(a) (1) (I) On request of a member of the General Assembly, the
Department shall provide the member with [a set of the Annotated Code] AN
ANNOTATED CODE of THE PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS OF Maryland[,] THAT IS
PUBLISHED BY A PUBLISHER AND PRODUCED IN A FORMAT TO BE SELECTED BY THE
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

(II) AN ANNOTATED CODE SHALL BE PROVIDED TO A MEMBER
UNDER THIS SUBSECTION only during the term of the member, at the end of which
[it] THE ANNOTATED CODE shall be returned to the Department.

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