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<section article="gsg" article_name="State Government" number="7-213" title_number="7" title_name="Secretary of State" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Division of State Documents">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section and § 3–405(b) of this article, each document to be published in the Code of Maryland Regulations or the Register shall be submitted to the Administrator, who:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>for 1 year after the publication of the document, shall keep and permit inspection of the document; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>then shall deliver the document to the State Archives.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Clerk of the Supreme Court of Maryland shall submit to the Administrator:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>each rule of court that the Supreme Court of Maryland adopts or permits to be adopted; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>each administrative order or memorandum of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland or the Administrative Office of the Courts that the Chief Justice directs to be published.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Chief Clerk of the District Court shall submit to the Administrator each administrative regulation that the Chief Judge of the District Court adopts.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Administrator may require that any document required or permitted to be published in the Register be submitted electronically or on paper, or both.</text>
  </level>
</section>
