Baltimore City Council
File #: 07-0642    Version: 0 Name: Environmental Citations - Electronic Signatures
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 4/16/2007 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 5/1/2007
Enactment #: 07-425
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.
Sponsors: City Council President (Administration)
Indexes: Citations, Electronic Signatures, Environmental Citations
Attachments: 1. 07-0642 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. 07-0642 - 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:  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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