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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 2-1 Office created; duties.">
  <section prefix="§" num="2-1" heading="Office created; duties.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Created.">The City Council Office of Financial Review is hereby abolished and there is hereby created the Office of Council Services.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Duties.">It is the function of this Office:<para num="(1)">to analyze the City’s budget and make recommendations thereon to the City Council, including both operating and capital budgets, revenues, taxation, and related matters;</para>
      <para num="(2)">to conduct studies of the organization and inter-relationships of the several departments, commissions, boards, and agencies of the City government;</para>
      <para num="(3)">to make recommendations on maximizing economy and efficiency in government;</para>
      <para num="(4)">to analyze legislation pending before the City Council;</para>
      <para num="(5)">to provide staff assistance to committees of the City Council; and</para>
      <para num="(6)">to provide such other assistance to the City Council and its committees as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of the City Council.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §7</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 86-625</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 05-008</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
