Baltimore City Council
File #: 08-0257    Version: 0 Name: Vandalism - Street Lights and Other Utility Structures
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 12/4/2008 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 3/20/2009
Enactment #: 09-152
Title: Vandalism - Street Lights and Other Utility Structures FOR the purpose of increasing the penalties for damaging or injuring street lighting or other public utility structures; correcting, clarifying, and conforming related language; and generally relating to vandalism of street lighting and other public utility structures, their equipment, parts, and appurtenances.
Sponsors: James B. Kraft, William H. Cole, IV, Bill Henry, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, President Young, Robert Curran, Sharon Green Middleton, Belinda Conaway, Helen L. Holton, Mary Pat Clarke
Indexes: Lights, Street Lamps, Utility, Vandalism
Attachments: 1. 08-0257 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Law - 08-0257.pdf, 3. Finance - 08-0257.pdf, 4. Police - 08-0257.pdf, 5. 08-0257 - 3rd Reader.pdf

EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

 

                     * WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.

                     THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.

                     INTRODUCTORY*                     

 

                     CITY OF BALTIMORE

                     COUNCIL BILL          

                                                                                                                                                           

Introduced by:  Councilmember Kraft                                                                                              

 

                     A BILL ENTITLED

 

AN ORDINANCE concerning

Title

Vandalism - Street Lights and Other Utility Structures

 

FOR the purpose of increasing the penalties for damaging or injuring street lighting or other public utility structures; correcting, clarifying, and conforming related language; and generally relating to vandalism of street lighting and other public utility structures, their equipment, parts, and appurtenances.

Body

BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments

   Article 19 - Police Ordinances

   Section(s) 57-3

   Baltimore City Code

   (Edition 2000)

 

   SECTION 1.  BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Laws of Baltimore City read as follows:

 

                     Baltimore City Code

 

                     Article 19.  Police Ordinances

 

                     Subtitle 57.  Vandalism

 

§ 573.  Utility structures, etc.

 

   (A)  PROHIBITED CONDUCT.

 

[If any] NO person [shall] MAY wilfully break, defile, remove, deface, [or] carry away, OR OTHERWISE DAMAGE OR INJURE any street lighting or other public utility structure, OR ANY equipment, [or any] part, or appurtenance [thereof, installed at any place in the City, or otherwise damage or injure the same,] OF A PUBLIC UTILITY STRUCTURE.

 

   (B)  LIABILITY.

 

 

[every] ANY person [so offending, aiding, or assisting in such offense, shall be subject to a penalty not exceeding $50 and shall also be] WHO VIOLATES THIS SECTION IS, IN ADDITION TO ANY OTHER APPLICABLE PENALTY, liable to the City or other owner of [such] THE structure, equipment, etc., for the [cost and] expense of repairing, cleaning, and restoring [the same] IT.

 

   (C)  PENALTIES.

 

(1)                     ANY PERSON WHO VIOLATES THIS SECTION IS GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR AND, ON CONVICTION, IS SUBJECT TO A FINE OF NOT MORE THAN $1,000 OR TO IMPRISONMENT FOR NOT MORE THAN 12 MONTHS OR TO BOTH FINE AND IMPRISONMENT FOR EACH OFFENSE.

 

(2)                     EACH STRUCTURE DAMAGED OR INJURED UNDER THIS SECTION IS A SEPARATE OFFENSE.

 

   SECTION 2.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That the catchlines contained in this Ordinance are not law and may not be considered to have been enacted as a part of this or any prior Ordinance.

 

   SECTION 3.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance takes effect on the 30th day after the date it is enacted.

 

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