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[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.
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THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL
Introduced by: Councilmember Kraft
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Parades - Permit Requirements
FOR the purpose of increasing the penalty for parading without permit; repealing certain obsolete or otherwise unnecessary provisions relating to parades by political organizations and to parades of drum corps, bands, or other bodies; providing for the issuance of these permits by the Department of General Services and authorizing the adoption of rules and regulations for that purpose; and providing for a special effective date.
Body
BY repealing
Article 19 - Police Ordinances
Section(s) 50-31 and 50-33
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)
BY renumbering, with amendments
Article 19 - Police Ordinances
Section(s) 50-32
to be
Section(s) 50-31
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 50. Street Regulations
Part 5. Parades
[§ 50 31. Political organizations.
(a) Permit required.
It shall not be lawful for any political organization to parade through the streets of the City without first obtaining a permit from the Mayor.
(b) Issuance.
And the Mayor shall at his discretion issue said permit to any and all political organizations applying for the same.
(c) Conditions of permit.
(1) Provided permits are not issued to political organizations of different political parties to parade on the same day or night.
(2) And provided also that it shall not be lawful for any organization, after having obtained said permit, to carry transparencies or other devices having painted or in any other manner exhibited thereon any writing or inscription except the names of the candidates and the names of ward organizations.
(d) Penalties.
Any person or persons violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of misdemeanor and liable to a penalty of not less than $5 nor more than $25.]
§ 50 31. [§ 50 32. Other organizations.] PERMIT REQUIRED.
(a) [Permit required] IN GENERAL.
It [shall not be lawful] IS UNLAWFUL for any organization or persons to parade through the streets of the City [of Baltimore] without first obtaining a permit TO DO SO from the [Mayor,] DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES.
(B) SPECIFICATIONS.
[stating] THE PERMIT SHALL SPECIFY the streets through which, and the hours within which, the parade is to pass.
(C) [(b)] Notice.
Before a permit is granted, the [Mayor] DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES shall make reasonable efforts to notify the local community and business groups, as listed in the Community Association Directory published by the Department of Planning, [who may] THAT MIGHT be affected by the proposed parade.
(D) RULES AND REGULATIONS.
(1) THE DIRECTOR OF GENERAL SERVICES MAY ADOPT RULES AND REGULATIONS TO CARRY OUT THIS SECTION.
(2) A COPY OF THESE RULES AND REGULATIONS MUST BE FILED WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BEFORE THEY TAKE EFFECT.
(E) [(c)] Penalties.
Any person [or persons violating the provisions of] WHO VIOLATES this section [shall be] IS guilty of a misdemeanor and, ON CONVICTION, [liable to pay a penalty] SUBJECT TO A FINE OF not [less than $1 nor] more than [$5] $500 OR TO IMPRISONMENT FOR NOT MORE THAN 60 DAYS OR TO BOTH FINE AND IMPRISONMENT FOR EACH OFFENSE.
[§ 50 33. Bands and drum corps.
(a) Permit required for certain hours.
There shall be no parade of drum corps, bands, or other bodies blowing horns and beating drums through the streets between the hours of 6 p.m. and 6 a.m., unless said band, drum corps, or other bodies shall, prior to every such parade, obtain a permit in writing therefor from the Mayor of the City.
(b) Collecting money prohibited.
And it shall be unlawful for any band of music or drum corps to play upon the streets and collect money for the same from the passersby or residents along the line of said streets.
(c) Penalties.
Each and every person violating the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a fine of $10, to be collected as other fines are now collected.]
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 July 1, 2009.
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