§ 93. Department of Legislative Reference: Director – Powers and Duties.

The Director:

{(i)} {Legislative matters.}

shall investigate and report upon the laws of this and other states and cities relating to any subject requested by the Mayor, any committee of the City Council or the head of any department;

accumulate data in relation to the practical operation and effect of such laws;

investigate and collect all available information relating to any matter which is the subject of proposed legislation by the General Assembly of Maryland, or the City Council of Baltimore;

examine acts, ordinances and records of any state or city, and report the result thereof to the Mayor, any committee of the City Council or the head of any department requesting the same;

prepare or advise in the preparation of any bill, ordinance or resolution when requested so to do by any member of the City Council; and

preserve and collect all information obtained, carefully indexed and arranged so as to be at all times easily accessible to city officers and open to the inspection of the general public.

{(ii)} {Records and archives.}

shall keep all the books, documents, archives, records, official plats, papers and proceedings of the City except those in current use or whose custody the Board of Estimates shall by resolution otherwise direct or authorize;

carefully collect, arrange and safely keep a complete series of the ordinances, resolutions and proceedings of the City;

receive and keep all other documents pertaining to the City which the Director may deem of historic value or be instructed so to do by ordinance or by resolution of the Board of Estimates;

provide for the retention of such books, documents, papers, plats or archives in the Department, and provide for their inspection and reproduction by the public under such reasonable regulations and supervision as the Director may prescribe;

carefully prepare and keep an index of all books, papers, records and documents in the custody of the Department; and

keep a current separate index of all rules and regulations of other departments and agencies of the City.

{(iii)} {Staff.}

may appoint such employees as may be provided in the Ordinance of Estimates.

{(iv)} {Duties prescribed by law.}

perform such other duties as prescribed by law.