(a)   At the end of each calendar or fiscal year, each charter county shall
furnish in a convenient and legible compilation a complete set of all
laws enacted during that year under the "Express Powers Act" in §
5 of this article, whether to enact, amend, or repeal a local law. The
laws in the compilation shall be in numerical sequence, beginning with
No. 1, and in a separate series for each year.
  (b)   Copies of this compilation shall be made available for inspection at
the office of the county council, county executive, or county manager,
during normal business hours; and copies shall be kept on permanent
record in the same office. Copies also shall be furnished to the State
Archives, the State Law Library, and to each member of the legislative
delegation of the county. The foregoing copies shall be furnished
without charge, and the county also may make other copies available at
a reasonable cost to any person.
  (c)   Not later than March 1 of the next succeeding year, the charter county,
without charge, shall furnish 4 copies of the compilation to the State
Department of Legislative Services.
  (d)   In addition to furnishing copies of the compilation to the State
Department of Legislative Services, the charter county shall provide to
the Department a statement concerning any referendum on any proposed
local law. The statement shall include information on the results of
any referendum held during the year, and it shall include information
as to any referendum pending actually or potentially, but not yet held,
at the end of the year.
  (e)   At the end of each calendar year the State Department of Legislative
Services shall address an inquiry to each charter county inquiring
whether or not during that calendar year or its latest fiscal year it
has enacted, amended or repealed any portion of its laws under the
"Express Powers Act". The charter county shall promptly answer the
inquiry and shall verify that copies of all such enactments,
amendments, or repeals have already been sent to the Department.
  (f)   If the charter county fails or refuses to supply copies of this
compilation and of the results of any referenda thereon to the State
Department of Legislative Services by March 1 of the next succeeding
year, or fails or refuses to certify that there have been no such
enactments, amendments, or repeals, or referenda, during the last
calendar or fiscal year, the Department shall promptly certify that
fact to the State Comptroller, who then may order the discontinuance of
all funds, grants or State aid which the charter county is entitled to
receive under State law. This section refers specifically to all funds,
grants or State aid which the charter county is entitled to receive
under applicable provisions of State law relating to the income tax,
the tax on racing, the recordation tax, the admissions and amusement
tax, and the license tax.
  (g)   The State Department of Legislative Services shall receive the several
compilations and statements thus delivered to it. The titles of the
laws of the several charter counties which amend their codes of public
local laws shall be arranged in a logical and convenient order and
shall be delivered to the State printer for inclusion in the Session
Laws of the General Assembly for its regular session in that year. The
titles of the laws of the charter counties which amend their codes of
public local laws shall be printed and identified as such, and they
shall be indexed with or in a supplemental volume to the laws enacted
by the General Assembly.
  (h)   Whenever the county council of any county in this State publishes or
issues in printed, mimeographed, or similar duplicated form a code or
compilation containing all or a portion of the public local laws of the
county, the council shall deposit copies free of charge with the
following State agencies: State Archives, 1 copy; State Law Library, 1
copy; State Department of Legislative Services, 5 copies.
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