Baltimore City Council
File #: 11-0764    Version: 0 Name: Advertising Circulars - Presumption of Placement Without Permission
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 8/15/2011 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 11/17/2011
Enactment #: 11-523
Title: Advertising Circulars - Presumption of Placement Without Permission FOR the purpose of establishing that advertising circulars found on unattended property can be presumed to have been placed without permission; increasing the penalties for repeated violations of the prohibition on the placement of advertising circulars without permission; and generally relating to advertising circulars.
Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Bill Henry, Robert Curran, Carl Stokes, William H. Cole, IV, James B. Kraft, Sharon Green Middleton, Belinda Conaway, Warren Branch, Helen L. Holton
Indexes: Advertising, Circulars
Attachments: 1. 11-0764 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Law - 11-0764.pdf, 3. Police - 11-0764.pdf, 4. Environmental Control - 11-0764.pdf, 5. Finance - 11-0764.pdf, 6. 11-0764 - 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 Clarke
                                                                                                                                                            
 
      A BILL ENTITLED
 
AN ORDINANCE concerning
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Advertising Circulars - Presumption of Placement Without Permission
 
FOR the purpose of establishing that advertising circulars found on unattended property can be presumed to have been placed without permission; increasing the penalties for repeated violations of the prohibition on the placement of advertising circulars without permission; and generally relating to advertising circulars.
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BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments                                                      
  Article 19 - Police Ordinances
  Section(s) 1-2
  Baltimore City Code
   (Edition 2000)
 
BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments                                                      
  Article 1 - Mayor, City Council, and Municipal Agencies
  Section(s) 40-14(e)(3)(§1-2) and 41-14(2)(§1-2)
  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 1.  Advertising Circulars
 
§ 12.  Placement prohibited without permission.
 
(A)      IN GENERAL.
 
A person may not affix, place, or cause to be affixed or placed any advertising circular:
 
 
 
(1)      in or on any vehicle in the City, except with the express permission of the owner or operator of the vehicle; or
 
(2)      in or on any residential property in the City (whether in or on a fence, railing, door, porch, lawn, sidewalk, or otherwise), except:
 
(i)      with the express permission of the owner or occupant of that property; or
 
(ii)      by placing the advertising circular into a door slot or a nonlockable bin consistent with federal law.
 
(B)      LACK OF PERMISSION PRESUMED.
 
AN ADVERTISING CIRCULAR FOUND ON AN UNATTENDED PROPERTY OR VEHICLE IS PRESUMED TO HAVE BEEN PLACED THERE WITHOUT PERMISSION UNLESS THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS PLACEMENT CAN AFFIRMATIVELY ESTABLISH OTHERWISE.
 
      Article 1.  Mayor, City Council, and Municipal Agencies
 
      Subtitle 40.  Environmental Control Board
                          
§ 4014.  Violations to which subtitle applies.      
 
  (e)  Provisions and penalties enumerated.
 
(3)      Article 19.  Police Ordinances
 
§ 1-2.  Placement {of advertising circulars} without permission            [$  50]
1ST OFFENSE                                                                                    $50
2ND OFFENSE                                                                                    $100
3RD OR SUBSEQUENT OFFENSE                                                            $500
 
        .........
 
                                      Subtitle 41.  Civil Citations
                          
§ 4114.  Offenses to which subtitle applies - Listing.      
 
(2)      Article 19.  Police Ordinances
 
§ 1-2.  Placement {of advertising circulars} without permission            [$  50]
1ST OFFENSE                                                                                    $50
2ND OFFENSE                                                                                    $100
3RD OR SUBSEQUENT OFFENSE                                                            $500
 
     .........
        
   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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