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<section article="glg" article_name="Local Government" number="9-206" title_number="9" title_name="General and Administrative Provisions" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Charter Counties">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>At the end of each calendar or fiscal year, each charter county shall compile a complete set of all local laws enacted during that year under the Express Powers Act, Title 10 of this article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The laws in the compilation shall be in numerical order, beginning with No. 1, and in a separate series for each year.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (3) of this subsection, copies of the compilation shall be:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>kept on permanent record at the office of the county council, county executive, or county manager;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>made available for inspection during regular business hours at that office; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>provided in printed form without charge to the State Archives and the Maryland Thurgood Marshall State Law Library.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Annually, each charter county shall provide each member of the General Assembly representing any part of the county with:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>notice that a digital copy of the compilation is available on the Internet; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a printed copy of the compilation without charge.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The charter county may make other copies of the compilation available at a reasonable cost to any person.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>On or before March 1 of each year, the charter county shall provide without charge four printed copies of the compilation to the Department of Legislative Services.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Each charter county shall provide to the Department of Legislative Services a statement that includes information on:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the results of any referendum on a proposed local law held during the year; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>any actual or potential pending referendum that had not been held by the end of the year.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
