[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of County Commissioners of
Worcester County 8-25-1981 by Bill No. 81-5 as Title 4 of the General Provisions Article
of the 1981 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The County Commissioners shall periodically prepare or cause
to be prepared supplements or otherwise revise the Code of Public
Local Laws of Worcester County, Maryland, noting which sections have
been repealed, amended or otherwise changed, generally updating the
Code. The County Commissioners may enter into contracts with attorneys,
publishing companies, printers or other third parties for the purposes
hereof.
(a)
Appointment; duties. The County Commissioners
are hereby authorized and empowered to appoint a Code Revisor by resolution
for the purpose of periodically editing the Code for the purposes
of clarity. The Code Revisor, in performing such function, shall not
alter the sense, meaning or effect of any enactment of the County
Commissioners but shall have the authority to do the following:
(1)
Renumber and/or rearrange Titles, Subtitles or sections or any
part thereof.
(2)
Transfer any Titles, Subtitles, sections or part thereof or
divide the same so as to give distinct subject matters separate designations
but without changing the meaning.
(3)
Insert or change the wording of headnotes.
(4)
Change reference numbers to agree with renumbered Titles, Subtitles,
sections or divisions thereof.
(5)
Substitute the proper designation for the terms "this act,"
"the preceding section" and the like.
(6)
Strike out figures where they are merely a repetition of written
words and vice versa.
(7)
Change capitalization for the purpose of uniformity.
(8)
Correct manifest typographical and grammatical errors or spelling
errors.
(9)
Make any other purely formal or clerical changes which said
Code Revisor may deem necessary and appropriate for the sake of clarity
in keeping with the purpose of the revision.
(b)
Omission of enacting clauses. The Code Revisor
may omit all titles of acts, all enacting, resolving and repealing
clauses, all appropriation measures and all validity, declaration
of policy and construction clauses, except when the retention thereof
is necessary to preserve the full meaning and intent of the law or
it is clear from the bill enacted by the Commissioners that such were
intended to be codified.
