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<section article="gsg" article_name="State Government" number="9-1009" title_number="9" title_name="Miscellaneous Executive Agencies" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="State Archives and Artistic Property">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Archives may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>repair and preserve the records under the supervision of the State Archivist, as provided in the State budget;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>make a copy of any record in the Archives; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>certify the copy.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Archives may publish, electronically or in print, indices to records, descriptions, summaries of record material, or original record material, in whole or in part, that are not otherwise restricted from access under existing law.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Archives shall index or provide other finding aids for:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the historical records acquired under § 9–1010 of this subtitle; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the land records in its custody under § 9–1011 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, the Archives may charge a reasonable fee for providing a copy of a record and for certifying the record.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If, with the written approval of a judge of a circuit court, the clerk of court asks for a copy of a land record that a court has transferred to the Commission or Archives, the Archives shall provide, without charge, a micrographic copy of the land record.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
