Baltimore City Council
File #: 09-0336    Version: 0 Name: Parking Fines - Penalties for Nonpayment
Type: Ordinance Status: Withdrawn
File created: 5/18/2009 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 1/24/2011
Enactment #:
Title: Parking Fines - Penalties for Nonpayment FOR the purpose of setting a limit on the amount of the penalty imposed for nonpayment of a citation issued for certain parking, stopping, standing, and related offenses; and generally relating to fines, penalties, and procedures for certain offenses.
Sponsors: President Young, Sharon Green Middleton, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, James B. Kraft, Warren Branch, Agnes Welch, Mary Pat Clarke, Edward Reisinger, Belinda Conaway, William H. Cole, IV
Indexes: Fines, Nonpayment, Parking, Penalties
Attachments: 1. 09-0336 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Parking - 09-0336.pdf, 3. Finance - 09-0336.pdf, 4. Law - 09-0336.pdf, 5. Transportation - 09-0336.pdf, 6. Police - 09-0336.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 Young                                                                                            
 
      A BILL ENTITLED
 
AN ORDINANCE concerning
title
Parking Fines - Penalties for Nonpayment
 
FOR the purpose of setting a limit on the amount of the penalty imposed for nonpayment of a citation issued for certain parking, stopping, standing, and related offenses; and generally relating to fines, penalties, and procedures for certain offenses.
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BY repealing and reordaining. with amendments
  Article 31 - Transit and Traffic
  Section(s) 36-22(b)(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 31.  Transit and Traffic
 
      Subtitle 36.  Parking, etc., Fines, Penalties, and Procedures
 
ยง 3622.  Imposition of penalties.
 
(b)  Penalties if not paid.
 
(1)      If, within 15 days from the date of the notice, the citation has not been satisfied, the person who received the citation is liable for a penalty EQUAL TO THE LESSER of:
 
(I)      $16 for each month or part of a month the citation remains unsatisfied; AND
 
(II)      5 TIMES THE AMOUNT OF THE FINE IMPOSED FOR THE VIOLATION FOR WHICH THE CITATION WAS ISSUED.
 
 
  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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