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<section article="gsg" article_name="State Government" number="3-406" title_number="3" title_name="Governor and Lieutenant Governor" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Executive Orders">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The publisher of the Code of Public General Laws shall codify each executive order that is issued in statutory form under Article II, § 24 of the Maryland Constitution, as statutes are codified.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Executive Director of the Department of Legislative Services shall publish all other executive orders and all proclamations that are required to be published.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Executive Director shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>to the extent possible, arrange each of these executive orders or proclamations by the article of the Code to which the executive order or proclamation relates; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>publish these executive orders and proclamations in a volume.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Executive Director is not required to publish any executive order that has been rescinded or has expired.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Executive Director shall establish a procedure to remove from the Code an executive order or proclamation that has been rescinded or has expired.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
