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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="23-301" title_number="23" title_name="Libraries" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="State Publications and Depository Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Depository library” means a library designated for the receipt and maintenance of State publications.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Depository library” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The State Library Resource Center;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The Maryland Department of Legislative Services Library;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The State Archives;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>The Maryland Thurgood Marshall State Law Library;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>The McKeldin Library of the University of Maryland;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>The Library of Congress; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>Any other library designated by the Commission on State Publications Depository and Distribution Program as a depository library.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Program” means the State Publications Depository and Distribution Program.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“State agency” means any permanent or temporary State office, department, division or unit, bureau, board, commission, task force, authority, institution, State college or university, and any other unit of State government, whether executive, legislative, or judicial, and includes any subunits of State government.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“State publication” means informational materials produced, regardless of format, by the authority of, or at the total or partial expense of any State agency.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“State publication” includes a publication sponsored by a State agency, issued in conjunction with, or under contract with the federal government, local units of government, private individuals, institutions, corporations, research firms, or other entities.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“State publication” does not include correspondence, interoffice and intraoffice memoranda, routine forms or other internal records, publications of bicounty agencies which comply with this program as required in § 23-304 of this subtitle, or any informational listing which any State statute provides shall be sold to members of the public for a fee.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
