Baltimore City Council
File #: 06-0539    Version: 0 Name: Metal Detectors for City Buildings
Type: Ordinance Status: Failed - End of Term
File created: 10/30/2006 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 12/5/2007
Enactment #:
Title: Metal Detectors for City Buildings FOR the purpose of requiring metal detectors in City buildings; defining certain terms; specifying certain exemptions; and generally relating to the safety of those who work in, visit, or otherwise occupy City buildings.
Sponsors: Belinda Conaway, President Young, Paula Johnson Branch, Kenneth Harris, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Keiffer Mitchell
Indexes: City Buildings, Metal Detectors
Attachments: 1. 06-0539 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. 06-0539 - Plat.tif

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 Conaway                                                                                        

 

                     A BILL ENTITLED

 

AN ORDINANCE concerning

Title

Metal Detectors for City Buildings

 

FOR the purpose of requiring metal detectors in City buildings; defining certain terms; specifying certain exemptions; and generally relating to the safety of those who work in, visit, or otherwise occupy City buildings.

Body

BY adding

Article 5 - Finance, Property, and Procurement

Section(s) 22-1 through 22-3, to be under the new subtitle heading,

"Subtitle 22.  Metal Detectors in City Buildings"

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 5.  Finance, Property, and Procurement

 

                     SUBTITLE 22.  METAL DETECTORS IN CITY BUILDINGS

 

§ 22-1.  DEFINITIONS.

 

(A)  IN GENERAL.

 

IN THIS SUBTITLE, THE FOLLOWING TERMS HAVE THE MEANINGS INDICATED.

 

(B)  CITY BUILDING.

 

"CITY BUILDING" MEANS ANY BUILDING OR PART OF A BUILDING THAT IS:

 

(1) OWNED BY THE CITY; OR

 

(2)                     OCCUPIED, WHETHER UNDER A LEASE OR OTHERWISE, BY A CITY AGENCY.

 

 

 

(C)  METAL DETECTOR.

 

"METAL DETECTOR" MEANS A DEVICE, WHETHER WALK-THROUGH OR HAND-HELD, THAT ACTIVATES AN ALARM OR OTHER SIGNAL WHEN IT DETECTS METAL AT A SETTING SPECIFIED BY THE POLICE COMMISSIONER.

 

§ 22-2.  EXEMPTIONS.

 

THIS SUBTITLE DOES NOT APPLY TO ANY PART OF A CITY BUILDING THAT IS:

 

(1)                     OCCUPIED AS A RESIDENCE; OR

 

(2)                     OCCUPIED BY A PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL OR BUSINESS.

 

§ 22-3.  DETECTORS REQUIRED.

 

EVERY  ENTRANCE TO A CITY BUILDING MUST BE MONITORED AT ALL TIMES BY AN ADEQUATELY SUPERVISED  METAL DETECTOR.

 

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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