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:  The Council President
At the request of:  The Administration (Department of Housing and Community Development)     
 
                     A BILL ENTITLED
 
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Environmental Citations - Electronic Signatures
 
FOR the purpose of authorizing the use of single documents and of electronic signatures for the issuance and verification of environmental citations; and providing for a special effective date.
Body
BY adding
Article 1 - Mayor, City Council, and Municipal Agencies
Section(s) 40-7(e) and (f)
Baltimore City Code 
(Edition 2000)
 
BY relettering
Article 1 - Mayor, City Council, and Municipal Agencies
Section(s) 40-7(e) 
   to be
Section(s) 40-7(g) 
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 1.  Mayor, City Council, and Municipal Agencies
 
                     Subtitle 40.  Environmental Control Board
 
 
§ 40-7.  Environmental Citations.
 
(E)  SINGLE DOCUMENT PERMISSIBLE.
 
A SINGLE DOCUMENT MAY BE USED TO ISSUE TWO OR MORE SEPARATELY NUMBERED CITATIONS.
 
(F)  ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE.
 
AN ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE MAY BE USED TO EXECUTE A CITATION AND TO SERVE AS AN AFFIRMATION, UNDER PENALTIES OF PERJURY, THAT THE FACTS STATED IN THE CITATION ARE TRUE.
 
(G) [(e)]  Record of citation to be kept.
 
The original or a copy of the citation must be filed and retained in the records of the Board.
 
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 date it is enacted.
 
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