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<section article="gsg" article_name="State Government" number="2-1254" title_number="2" title_name="General Assembly" subtitle_number="12" subtitle_name="Staff and Services -- Department of Legislative Services">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>After each regular session, the Department shall compile and index:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the laws that are enacted during that session;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the executive orders that have been adopted pursuant to Article II, § 24 of the Maryland Constitution since the last compilation; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the certificates of the State Board of Elections as to the referendum vote on a law, if the vote has not been published previously.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>After each special session, the Department shall compile and index the laws that are enacted during that session.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>After completion of the compilation and index, the Department shall deliver copies of the laws, executive orders adopted pursuant to Article II, § 24 of the Maryland Constitution, certificates, and titles to the printer who is designated to print the session laws.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The printer shall print promptly:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the documents delivered under this section; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>with the compilation for a regular session, the statement of receipts and expenditures of public money delivered under § 2–103 of the State Finance and Procurement Article.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The printer shall deliver the volumes to the Executive Director.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The Department shall publish other executive orders delivered to it in accordance with § 3–406(b) of this article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Department shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>create and maintain, in the form of a statutory database, a code comprising the public general laws of the State; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>maintain the structural integrity and textual accuracy of that code.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
