1. (a) The State Reporter, under the direction and supervision of the Supreme Court of Maryland, shall let the necessary contracts for publishing the Maryland Reports, containing opinions of the Supreme Court of Maryland, and the Maryland Appellate Reports, containing opinions of the Appellate Court of Maryland. The contracts may be awarded on the terms and conditions the State Reporter deems necessary.
2. (b) The publisher shall deliver to the State Reporter copies of the Maryland Reports and Maryland Appellate Reports, including advance reports, in the number and with the binding specified in the contracts.
3. (c) The State Reporter shall have the Maryland Reports and Maryland Appellate Reports distributed as appropriate and may deliver any excess copies to the Thurgood Marshall State Law Library.

Added by Acts 1973, 1st Sp. Sess., c. 2, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1979, c. 619; Acts 1992, c. 93, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1992; Acts 2019, c. 38, § 1, eff. July 1, 2019; Acts 2019, c. 39, § 1, eff. July 1, 2019; Acts 2023, c. 49, § 6.

Formerly Art. 80, § 4.