Baltimore City Council
File #: 09-0302    Version: 0 Name: Parking Facilities - Enforcement
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 3/16/2009 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 5/7/2009
Enactment #: 09-169
Title: Parking Facilities - Enforcement FOR the purpose of increasing certain criminal penalties and providing for certain civil fines for violations of certain laws governing the licensing and operation of parking facilities.
Sponsors: William H. Cole, IV, President Young, Bill Henry, Sharon Green Middleton, James B. Kraft, Agnes Welch, Mary Pat Clarke, Warren Branch, Edward Reisinger, Robert Curran, Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake
Indexes: Enforcement, Parking, Parking Facilities
Attachments: 1. 09-0302 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Parking Authority - 09-0302.pdf, 3. Law - 09-0302.pdf, 4. Finance - 09-0302.pdf, 5. Transportation - 09-0302.pdf, 6. 09-0302 - 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 Cole                                                                                                
 
 
      A BILL ENTITLED
 
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Parking Facilities - Enforcement
 
FOR the purpose of increasing certain criminal penalties and providing for certain civil fines for violations of certain laws governing the licensing and operation of parking facilities.
Body
BY adding
  Article 15 - Licensing and Regulation
  Section(s) 12-9 and 12-10
  Baltimore City Code
   (Edition 2000)
 
BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
  Article 1 - Mayor, City Council, and Municipal Agencies
  Section(s) 40-14(e)(2) and 41-14(1)
  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 15.  Licensing and Regulation
 
      Subtitle 12.  Parking Facilities
 
§ 12-9.  ENFORCEMENT BY CITATION.
 
  (A)  IN GENERAL.
 
IN ADDITION TO ANY OTHER CIVIL OR CRIMINAL REMEDY OR ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURE, THIS SUBTITLE MAY BE ENFORCED BY ISSUANCE OF:
 
 
 
(1)      AN ENVIRONMENTAL CITATION UNDER CITY CODE ARTICLE 1, SUBTITLE 40 {"ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD"}; OR
 
(2)      A CIVIL CITATION UNDER CITY CODE ARTICLE 1, SUBTITLE 41 {"CIVIL CITATIONS"}.
 
(B)  PROCESS NOT EXCLUSIVE.
 
THE ISSUANCE OF A CITATION TO ENFORCE THIS SUBTITLE DOES NOT PRECLUDE PURSUING ANY OTHER CIVIL OR CRIMINAL REMEDY OR ENFORCEMENT ACTION AUTHORIZED BY LAW.
 
§ 12-10.  CRIMINAL PENALTIES.
 
  (A)  IN GENERAL.
 
ANY PERSON WHO VIOLATES ANY PROVISION OF THIS SUBTITLE OR OF A RULE OR REGULATION ADOPTED UNDER THIS SUBTITLE IS GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR AND, ON CONVICTION, IS SUBJECT TO A FINE OF NOT MORE THAN $1,000 OR IMPRISONMENT FOR NOT MORE THAN 6 MONTHS OR BOTH FINE AND IMPRISONMENT FOR EACH OFFENSE.
 
  (B)  EACH DAY A SEPARATE OFFENSE.
 
EACH DAY THAT A VIOLATION CONTINUES IS A SEPARATE OFFENSE.
 
 
      Article 1.  Mayor, City Council, and Municipal Agencies
 
      Subtitle 40.  Environmental Control Board
 
§ 4014.  Violations to which subtitle applies.
 
  (e)  Provisions and penalties enumerated.
 
     (2)  Article 15.  Licensing and Regulation
 
SUBTITLE 12.  PARKING FACILITIES                                                      $750
 
§ 1723.  Food vendors  Receptacles; clean-up                                    $100
 
 
      Subtitle 41.  Civil Citations
 
§ 41-14.  Offenses to which subtitle applies - Listing.
 
  (1)  Article 15.  Licensing and Regulation
 
SUBTITLE 12.  PARKING FACILITIES                                                            $750
 
Subtitle 17.  Street Vendors                                                                        $ 50
 
Subtitle 18.  Itinerant Wholesale Produce Dealers                                    $ 50
 
 
  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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