(a)   At the end of each calendar or fiscal year, each code county shall
furnish in a convenient and legible compilation a complete set of all
local laws enacted, amended, or repealed by the code county during that
year.
  (b)   Copies of this compilation shall be made available for inspection at
the office of the board of county commissioners during normal business
hours; and copies shall be kept on permanent record at the office of
the board of county commissioners. Copies also shall be furnished to
the State Archives, to 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 code county,
without charge, shall furnish 4 copies of this 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 code county shall provide 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 code county inquiring whether
or not during that calendar year or its latest fiscal year it has
enacted, amended or repealed any portion of its public local laws. The
code 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 code 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 code county is entitled to
receive under State law. This section refers specifically to all funds,
grants or State aid which the code 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 code 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 code 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 a code 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
code county 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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