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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="1-503" title_number="1" title_name="Court Structure and Organization" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In each county in the first seven judicial circuits there shall be the number of resident judges of the circuit court set forth below, including the judge or judges provided for by the Constitution:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Allegany    2</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Anne Arundel    13</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Baltimore County    21</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Calvert    3</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Caroline    1</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Carroll    4</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Cecil    4</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>Charles    5</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>Dorchester    1</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>Frederick    6</text>
    </level>
    <level label="11">
      <text>Garrett    1</text>
    </level>
    <level label="12">
      <text>Harford    6</text>
    </level>
    <level label="13">
      <text>Howard    5</text>
    </level>
    <level label="14">
      <text>Kent    1</text>
    </level>
    <level label="15">
      <text>Montgomery    24</text>
    </level>
    <level label="16">
      <text>Prince George’s     25</text>
    </level>
    <level label="17">
      <text>Queen Anne’s    1</text>
    </level>
    <level label="18">
      <text>St. Mary’s    3</text>
    </level>
    <level label="19">
      <text>Somerset    1</text>
    </level>
    <level label="20">
      <text>Talbot    1</text>
    </level>
    <level label="21">
      <text>Washington     6</text>
    </level>
    <level label="22">
      <text>Wicomico    4</text>
    </level>
    <level label="23">
      <text>Worcester    3</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>In Baltimore City there shall be 35 resident judges of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City.</text>
  </level>
</section>
