Section 7-202 – Established

    There is a Division of State Documents in the Office of the Secretary of State.

Section 7-203 – Administrator

    (a)    The head of the Division is the Administrator, who shall be appointed by the Governor.     (b)    (1)    The Administrator holds office during good behavior.         (2)    Subject to the hearing requirements of this subsection, the Governor may remove the Administrator for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or misconduct in office.         (3)    Before the Governor removes the Administrator, the Governor shall:             (i)    prepare […]

Section 7-204 – General Responsibility of Division and Administrator

    (a)    The Division shall compile and edit:         (1)    the Code of Maryland Regulations; and         (2)    as a temporary supplement, the Maryland Register.     (b)    Subject to the limitations in this subtitle, the Administrator is responsible for the publication and distribution of the Code of Maryland Regulations and the Register.

Section 7-205 – Code of Maryland Regulations

    (a)    Except as otherwise provided by law, the Code of Maryland Regulations shall contain the text of:         (1)    each executive order that is generally permanent in nature;         (2)    each regulation;         (3)    each document that the General Assembly requires to be published with a regulation; and         (4)    unless otherwise privileged, each other document that the Committee permits to be published in […]

Section 7-206 – Maryland Register

    (a)    An issue of the Register shall contain:         (1)    on the first page:             (i)    the closing date and hour of the issue; and             (ii)    the issue date, which shall be the date of deposit in the United States mail and shall appear prominently;         (2)    the text of each of the following documents that has been submitted to the Division before […]

Section 7-206.2 – Databases

    (a)    The Division may arrange for databases derived from publications issued by the Division to be made available to the public for direct online searching by contracting with third–party or value–added resellers.     (b)    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Division shall make available to the public, at no cost, direct online searching of:         (1)    the Code of […]

Section 7-207 – Restrictions on Publication

    (a)    (1)    Unless the Committee provides otherwise, the Code of Maryland Regulations and the Register may not reprint any text from:             (i)    the Annotated Code of Maryland;             (ii)    the Session Laws;             (iii)    the United States Code;             (iv)    the United States Statutes at Large;             (v)    the Code of Federal Regulations;             (vi)    the Federal Register; or             (vii)    any other generally available publication that the Administrator specifies. […]

Section 7-208 – Annotations

    (a)    The Administrator may include in the Code of Maryland Regulations and the Register annotations of judicial decisions and other explanatory materials that relate to a document in the Code of Maryland Regulations or the Register.     (b)    The Administrator may prepare the annotations or obtain them by contract.

Section 7-209 – Deletion of Obsolete Regulations

    With the consent of the Attorney General, the Administrator may remove from the Code of Maryland Regulations:         (1)    a provision of a regulation that a court of final appeal has declared to be unconstitutional; or         (2)    a regulation if the unit that adopted the regulation has been abolished and the regulation does not transfer to a successor.

Section 7-210 – Frequency of Publication

    (a)    Except as otherwise provided in this section, an issue of the Register complying with the requirements of § 7-206 of this subtitle shall be published at least once every 2 weeks.     (b)    (1)    (i)    To avoid a conflict with a State or national holiday, with the approval of the Committee, the Administrator may alter the publication date of […]

Section 7-211 – Printing Contracts

    (a)    Subject to the conditions that the Board of Public Works sets, the Administrator shall contract for the prompt printing and distribution of the Code of Maryland Regulations, including its permanent supplements, and the Register.     (b)    The contract shall provide for a typographical arrangement that permits a unit or court to obtain, at reasonable cost, pamphlet reprints […]

Section 7-212 – Editorial Standards

    (a)    (1)    The Administrator may adopt a codification system and set editorial standards for the Code of Maryland Regulations and the Register, including a numbering system and captions or tag lines.         (2)    The numbering system, captions, or tag lines are not part of the official text of a document.     (b)    Except for rules of court, each document that is […]

Section 7-213 – Copies of Documents

    (a)    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:         (1)    for 1 year after the publication of the document, shall keep and permit inspection of the document; […]

Section 7-214 – Notices

    (a)    This subtitle does not affect any other requirement as to notice, including a time that is specifically set for the publication of the notice.     (b)    (1)    A unit shall submit a notice that sets a date for a hearing or meeting or for the termination of the opportunity to be heard in time for publication in an […]

Section 7-215 – Changes in Documents

    The Administrator may require a unit to reimburse the Division for the cost of a publication of a document in an issue of the Register if the unit submits, withdraws, or changes the document after the closing date and hour of that issue.

Section 7-216 – Distribution

    (a)    (1)    The Committee shall adopt guidelines for the Administrator to:             (i)    sell a subscription list for any publication of the Division; and             (ii)    set the price for:                 1.    a copy of or a subscription to the Code of Maryland Regulations and the Register; and                 2.    a copy of a database or other computer readable information on magnetic tape or some […]

Section 7-216.1 – Special Fund

    (a)    There is a special fund in the Division of State Documents.     (b)    The purpose of the fund is to pay the costs of publishing and distributing the products of the Division.     (c)    The Administrator of the Division shall administer the fund.     (d)    (1)    The fund is a special, nonlapsing fund that is not subject to § 7-302 of the […]

Section 7-217 – Official Text

    (a)    The official text of a document is:         (1)    until incorporation in the Code of Maryland Regulations, the text of the document in the most recent form in the Register; or         (2)    after incorporation in the Code of Maryland Regulations, the text of the document in the most recent form in the Code of Maryland Regulations.     (b)    Notwithstanding any […]

Section 7-218 – Publication Errors

    (a)    Subject to subsection (b) of this section, the Administrator shall correct an error in the official text of a document in the Code of Maryland Regulations or the Register by:         (1)    inclusion of the correction in an errata list in the Register; or         (2)    publication of a corrected form of the affected part of the document in […]

Section 7-219 – Constructive Notice

    Unless notice by publication is insufficient in law or unless otherwise specifically provided by law, publication of a document under this subtitle gives a person who is subject to or affected by the document notice of the contents of the document.