Baltimore City Council
File #: 10-0483    Version: 0 Name: Public Ethics Law - Persons "Doing Business with City"
Type: Ordinance Status: Failed - End of Term
File created: 4/19/2010 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action:
Enactment #:
Title: Public Ethics Law - Persons "Doing Business with City" FOR the purpose of requiring the annual list of persons "doing business with the City" to be available in an integrated, easily searchable electronic database; clarifying certain terms; providing for a special effective date; and generally relating to ethics in the public sector.
Sponsors: Helen L. Holton, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, William H. Cole, IV, Bill Henry, Sharon Green Middleton, President Young, Belinda Conaway, Agnes Welch, Robert Curran, James B. Kraft, Carl Stokes
Indexes: Public Ethics
Attachments: 1. 10-0483 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Ethics - 10-0483.pdf, 3. Finance - 10-0483.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 Holton                                                                                             
 
      A BILL ENTITLED
 
AN ORDINANCE concerning
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Public Ethics Law - Persons "Doing Business with City"
 
FOR the purpose of requiring the annual list of persons "doing business with the City" to be available in an integrated, easily searchable electronic database; clarifying certain terms; providing for a special effective date; and generally relating to ethics in the public sector.
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BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
  Article 8 - Ethics
  Section(s) 7-1(d)
  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 8.  Ethics
 
      Subtitle 7.  Financial Disclosure
 
§ 7-1.  Certifications.
 
  (d)  Entities doing business with City.
 
(1)      The Finance Director must annually [certify] COMPILE AND SUBMIT to the Ethics Board, [a] IN AN INTEGRATED, EASILY SEARCHABLE ELECTRONIC DATABASE, AN ALPHABETIZED list of all business entities [doing] WHO DID business with the City, AS DEFINED IN § 25(A)(1)(I) AND (2) OF THIS ARTICLE, DURING THE PRECEDING CALENDAR YEAR.
 
(2)      The Ethics Board must [keep] POST this list on [file and] ITS WEBSITE, available to all persons subject to this subtitle.
 
 
  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  the later of (i) the date this Ordinance is enacted, and (ii) the date on which this Ordinance is approved by the State Ethics Commission.
 
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