Baltimore City Council
File #: 08-0254    Version: 0 Name: Street Regulations - Sand, Water, etc.
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 12/4/2008 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 3/20/2009
Enactment #: 09-150
Title: Street Regulations - Sand, Water, etc. FOR the purpose of repealing obsolete or otherwise unnecessary provisions dealing with the use of sand and other materials on streets and alleys and with the discharge of water on repaved streets.
Sponsors: James B. Kraft, Bill Henry, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Robert Curran
Indexes: Regulation, Sand, Streets, Water
Attachments: 1. 08-0254 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Finance - 08-0254.pdf, 3. Law - 08-0254.pdf, 4. Police - 08-0254.pdf, 5. 08-0254 - 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 Kraft                                                                                               
 
      A BILL ENTITLED
 
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Street Regulations - Sand, Water, etc.
 
FOR the purpose of repealing obsolete or otherwise unnecessary provisions dealing with the use of sand and other materials on streets and alleys and with the discharge of water on repaved streets.
Body
BY repealing
  Article 50 - Police Ordinances
  Subtitle 50, Part 9, in its entirety
  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 9.  Sand, Water, etc.]
 
[§ 5061.  Sand, ashes, etc., prohibited on streets.
 
  (a)  In general.
 
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, or corporation, to deposit or scatter sand, ashes, or other matter on any part of the streets or alleys of the City of Baltimore, excepting sidewalks thereof, in time of ice or sleet.
 
  (b)  Exceptions.
 
Provided, that nothing in this section shall be construed as to prevent street railway companies from placing sand on their rails at heavy grades.
 
 
 
  (c)  Penalties.
 
Any person or persons, or corporation, violating the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a fine of $10 for each and every offense, to be recovered as other fines and forfeitures for the violation of City ordinances are recovered.]
 
[§ 5062.  Water on repaved streets.
 
(a)  In general.
 
It shall not be lawful for any person or persons or body corporate to discharge or permit to be discharged, any water from any street washer or hose on the sidewalk or street bed of any portion of any street while such portion of said street is being repaved, nor for 2 weeks after such repaying has been completed.
 
  (b)  Penalties.
 
Any person or persons or body corporate violating the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay the sum of $10 for each and every such offense, to be recovered as other fines and penalties are recovered.]
 
  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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