COMAR Online is searchable and available at no charge.
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Advisory Opinions
Advisory Opinions of the State Ethics Commission are searchable and available as part of COMAR Online. Since August 2003, they are no longer printed in COMAR Title 19A.
Executive Orders
Executive Orders of the Executive Department are searchable and available below.
Emergency Actions in Effect
List of Emergency actions in effect within COMAR (pdf)
What Is COMAR?
Maryland State agency regulations are compiled in the
Code of Maryland Regulations (COMAR). COMAR contains 36 Titles, with each Title corresponding to a department or agency. Each regulation is assigned a unique four-part codification number.
COMAR Codification System
Under the COMAR codification system, every regulation is assigned unique four-part codification number by which it may be identified. All regulations are arranged by title. Each title is divided into numbered chapters, and each chapter into numbered regulations. |
A regulation may be divided into lettered sections, a section divided into numbered subsections, a subsection divided into lettered paragraphs, and a paragraph divided into numbered subparagraphs.
Effective Dates
- COMAR regulations are effective to date.
- COMAR is updated biweekly corresponding with the effective dates in the most current Maryland Register issue.
Official Text
Under State Government Article, §7-217, Annotated Code of Maryland, the printed version of COMAR is the official and enforceable text. Only the official text may be judicially noticed under Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article, §10-203 Annotated Code of Maryland.
Please Note (Proposed Regulations)
Regulations proposed but not yet adopted are published biweekly in the Maryland Register, available by print or electronic subscription from the Division of State Documents. See the
Maryland Register Online for the online version of the Maryland Register. Only the 3 most current issues of the Maryland Register are available online for viewing.
Please Note (Viewing Regulations in COMAR Online)
In COMAR Online, you view regulations individually, and not as part of the larger chapter designation. You must open each regulation individually to see its entire text, and then hit the back button on your browser to locate and access the next regulation in a chapter. Excerpts of each regulation have been provided in the search results to better assist you.
