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<section article="glg" article_name="Local Government" number="9-309" title_number="9" title_name="General and Administrative Provisions" subtitle_number="3">
  <level label="a">
    <text>By public local law, the county commissioners of a code county shall establish a specified number of days, not exceeding 45 days, in each year on which the county commissioners may meet to enact public local laws.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Legislative days:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>need not be consecutive; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>may be designated by public local law.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If a legislative day is not specified or not determinable by public local law, the county commissioners shall publish notice of the legislative day in a newspaper of general circulation in the code county between 3 and 14 days before the legislative day.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The first legislative session of a code county shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>begin on the first business day 60 days after the effective date of code home rule; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>be 15 days long.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The 15 days of the first legislative session do not count as part of the annual 45 legislative days.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Each legislative session shall be open to the public.</text>
  </level>
</section>
