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<section article="gsg" article_name="State Government" number="7-206" title_number="7" title_name="Secretary of State" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Division of State Documents">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An issue of the Register shall contain:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>on the first page:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the closing date and hour of the issue; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the issue date, which shall be the date of deposit in the United States mail and shall appear prominently;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the text of each of the following documents that has been submitted to the Division before the closing date and hour and has not been published previously:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>during each session of the General Assembly:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>a synopsis of each bill that is introduced; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>a synopsis of each bill that is enacted;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>unless posted promptly on the website of the Maryland Judiciary:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>each proposed rule of court that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland directs to be published;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>each rule of court that the Supreme Court of Maryland adopts or permits to be adopted;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>the hearing calendar of the Supreme Court of Maryland;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>each administrative order or memorandum of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland or of the Administrative Office of the Courts that the Chief Justice directs to be published;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="5">
          <text>the hearing calendar of the Appellate Court of Maryland; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="6">
          <text>each administrative regulation that the Chief Judge of the District Court adopts;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>each executive order;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>each designation of an official State agency under a federal program;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>except for notaries public and special police, a list of gubernatorial appointments that states:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the office;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the name of the appointee;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>the county where the appointee resides;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>the effective date of appointment;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="5">
          <text>the term of office; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="6">
          <text>the salary;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>for a proposed regulation:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the notice of the proposed adoption of the regulation; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the text of the proposed regulation;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>each notice of a public hearing that a unit issues;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>unless otherwise exempted, each other document that is required by law to be published in the Code of Maryland Regulations;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <text>each other document that is required to be published in the Register;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="x">
        <text>each notice or other document issued by an agency of a county or municipal government that the Committee permits to be published in the Register; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xi">
        <text>unless otherwise privileged, each other document that the Committee permits to be published in the Register;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>a table of contents; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>an index to each title of the Code of Maryland Regulations that a document in the issue affects.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Each issue of the Register shall contain a certification of the Administrator that the issue contains all of the documents that have been submitted to the Division as of the closing date and hour of the issue.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The certification of the Administrator in the Register is conclusive evidence of this fact.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If the Committee permits a unit or an agency of a county or municipal government to publish a document in the Register and publication otherwise would not be required, the Committee may require the unit or agency to reimburse the Division for the cost of the publication.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Division shall bill for and collect the reimbursement.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
