Baltimore City Council
File #: 09-0373    Version: 0 Name: Food Service Facilities - Suspension or Nonrenewal of Licenses - Multiple or Unpaid Citations
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 7/13/2009 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 11/23/2009
Enactment #: 09-0243
Title: Food Service Facilities - Suspension or Nonrenewal of Licenses - Multiple or Unpaid Citations FOR the purpose of authorizing the suspension or nonrenewal of a license for a food service facility that has received multiple environmental or civil citations or is in default of an environmental or civil citation; requiring notice and an opportunity to be heard; and generally relating to the licensing and regulation of food service facilities.
Sponsors: Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, Mary Pat Clarke, Sharon Green Middleton, Bill Henry, Robert Curran, President Young, James B. Kraft, Edward Reisinger, Warren Branch, Agnes Welch, William H. Cole, IV, Helen L. Holton, Rochelle Spector, Belinda Conaway
Indexes: Citations, Facilities, Food Service, Licensing, Nonrenewal, Suspension
Attachments: 1. 09-0373 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Environmental Control - 09-0373.pdf, 3. HCD - 09-0373.pdf, 4. Health - 09-0373.pdf, 5. Police - 09-0373.pdf, 6. Law - 09-0373 - Revision.pdf, 7. Law - 09-0373.pdf, 8. 09-0373 - 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.

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                     CITY OF BALTIMORE

                     COUNCIL BILL          

                                                                                                                                                           

Introduced by:  President Rawlings-Blake                                                                                        

 

                     A BILL ENTITLED

 

AN ORDINANCE concerning

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Food Service Facilities - Suspension or Nonrenewal of Licenses - Multiple or Unpaid Citations

 

FOR the purpose of authorizing the suspension or nonrenewal of a license for a food service facility that has received multiple environmental or civil citations or is in default of an environmental or civil citation; requiring notice and an opportunity to be heard; and generally relating to the licensing and regulation of food service facilities.

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BY adding

   Article - Health

   Section(s) 6-603.1

   Baltimore City Revised 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 Revised Code

 

                     Article – Health

 

                     Title 6.  Food Service Facilities

                                               

§ 6-603.1.  SUSPENSION OR NONRENEWAL FOR MULTIPLE OR UNPAID CITATIONS.

 

   (A)  IN GENERAL.

 

THE COMMISSIONER MAY SUSPEND OR REFUSE TO RENEW THE LICENSE OF A FOOD SERVICE FACILITY IF:

 

(1)                     AT ANY TIME WITHIN THE PRECEDING 6 MONTHS, THE FACILITY HAS BEEN SERVED WITH 3 OR MORE CITATIONS UNDER EITHER OR BOTH OF:

 

(I)                     CITY CODE ARTICLE 1, SUBTITLE 40 {“ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD”}; OR

 

 

 

(II)                     CITY CODE ARTICLE 1, SUBTITLE 41 {“CIVIL CITATIONS”}; OR

 

                                                                (2)                     AT ANY TIME WITHIN THE PRECEDING 12 MONTHS, THE FACILITY BEEN DECLARED TO BE IN DEFAULT OF 1 OR MORE CITATIONS UNDER EITHER OF:

 

(I)                     CITY CODE ARTICLE 1, § 40-8 {“ENVIRONMENTAL CITATIONS: DEFAULT BY PERSON CITED”}; OR

 

(II)                     CITY CODE ARTICLE 1, §  41-10 {“CIVIL CITATIONS: DEFAULT”}.

 

   (B)  NOTICE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING.

 

BEFORE SUSPENDING A LICENSE UNDER THIS SECTION, THE COMMISSIONER MUST PROVIDE THE FACILITY WITH NOTICE AND AN OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING, AS PROVIDED IN TITLE 2, SUBTITLE 3 {“ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS”} OF THIS ARTICLE.

 

   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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