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<section article="glg" article_name="Local Government" number="4-311" title_number="4" title_name="In General" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Amendment or Repeal of Charter">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>At the end of each calendar year, the Department of Legislative Services shall ask each municipality whether any charter enactments have been adopted during that calendar year or the last fiscal year.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The municipality promptly shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>answer the inquiry; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>verify, by a signed and notarized statement, that copies of the charter enactments already have been sent to the Department of Legislative Services.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Department of Legislative Services promptly shall certify to the State Comptroller if a municipality does not comply with subsection (a) of this section or § 4–310(c) or (d) of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the Department of Legislative Services certifies noncompliance, the Comptroller may discontinue all funds, grants, or State aid that the municipality is entitled to under State law relating to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the income tax;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the tax on racing;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the recordation tax;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>the admissions and amusement tax; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>license taxes or fees.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Department of Legislative Services shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>arrange in a logical and convenient order the titles or the full text of the laws of the municipalities that amend the municipal charters; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>publish on the General Assembly website each title, identified as a title of the laws of the municipality,  or the full text of each law of the municipalities that amends the municipal charters.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
