1. (a)

   1. (1) After each regular session, the Department shall compile and index:

      1. (i) the laws that are enacted during that session;
      2. (ii) the executive orders that have been adopted pursuant to Article II, § 24 of the Maryland Constitution since the last compilation; and
      3. (iii) the certificates of the State Board of Elections as to the referendum vote on a law, if the vote has not been published previously.
   2. (2) After each special session, the Department shall compile and index the laws that are enacted during that session.

2. (b)

   1. (1) After completion of the compilation and index, the Department shall deliver copies of the laws, executive orders adopted pursuant to Article II, § 24 of the Maryland Constitution, certificates, and titles to the printer who is designated to print the session laws.

   2. (2) The printer shall print promptly:

      1. (i) the documents delivered under this section; and
      2. (ii) with the compilation for a regular session, the statement of receipts and expenditures of public money delivered under § 2-103 of the State Finance and Procurement Article.
   3. (3) The printer shall deliver the volumes to the Executive Director.
   4. (4) The Department shall publish other executive orders delivered to it in accordance with § 3-406(b) of this article.

3. (c) The Department shall:

   1. (1) create and maintain, in the form of a statutory database, a code comprising the public general laws of the State; and
   2. (2) maintain the structural integrity and textual accuracy of that code.

Added as State Government § 2-1309 by Acts 1984, c. 284, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1984. Amended by Acts 1984, c. 311, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1984; Acts 1985, c. 717, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1985; Acts 1987, c. 11, § 1, eff. April 2, 1987; Acts 1988, c. 6, § 1, eff. Feb. 18, 1988; Acts 1996, c. 10, § 1, eff. April 9, 1996; Acts 1997, c. 14, § 1, eff. April 8, 1997. Renumbered as State Government § 2-1243 by Acts 1997, c. 635, § 2, eff. July 1, 1997; Acts 1997, c. 636, § 2, eff. July 1, 1997. Amended by Acts 1997, c. 635, § 2, eff. July 1, 1997; Acts 1997, c. 636, § 2, eff. July 1, 1997; Acts 2002, c. 303, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 2003; Acts 2003, c. 416, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2003. Renumbered as State Government § 2-1254 by Acts 2019, c. 510, § 1, eff. July 1, 2019; Acts 2019, c. 511, § 1, eff. July 1, 2019. Amended by Acts 2019, c. 263, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2019.

Formerly Art. 19, § 25; Art. 41, § 82.