City of Baltimore - File #: 08-0213

• File #: 08-0213
• Version: 0
• Name: Vacant Lot Registration - Exceptions
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 10/6/2008
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 4/15/2010
• Enactment #: 10-269
• Title: Vacant Lot Registration - Exceptions FOR the purpose of excepting certain lots from the requirement to register vacant lots.
• Sponsors: Robert Curran, Helen L. Holton, Rochelle Spector, President Young, Sharon Green Middleton, Warren Branch, William H. Cole, IV, Bill Henry, Edward Reisinger, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Belinda Conaway, Agnes Welch, Mary Pat Clarke
• Indexes: Exceptions, Registration, Vacant Lot

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/15/2010	0	Mayor	Signed by Mayor
4/12/2010	0	City Council	Approved and Sent to the Mayor
3/22/2010	0	City Council	Advanced to 3rd Rdr., Adopted Comm. Report
3/8/2010	0	Taxation, Finance and Economic Development Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
9/14/2009	0	Taxation, Finance and Economic Development Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
10/15/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
10/9/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
10/9/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
10/6/2008	0	City Council	Introduced
10/6/2008	0	City Council	Assigned
10/6/2008	0	Taxation, Finance and Economic Development Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing

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:  Councilmembers Curran, Holton, Spector                                                                

      A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning

Title

Vacant Lot Registration - Exceptions

FOR the purpose of excepting certain lots from the requirement to register vacant lots.

Body

BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments

  Article 13 - Housing and Urban Renewal

  Section(s) 11-2

  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 13.  Housing and Urban Renewal

      Subtitle 11.  Registration of Vacant Lots

?ÿ112.  Registration required.

(a)  Owner to register annually.

[By] EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBSECTION (D) OF THIS SECTION, BY September 1 of each year, the owner of a vacant lot that is assessed for $100 or more must file a registration statement with the Commissioner on a form to be provided by the Commissioner.

  (b)  Registration fee.

(1)      The annual registration fee is $25 for each vacant lot, with a maximum fee of $5,000 for all lots titled to the same owner of record.

(2)      This fee must be paid at the time of registration.

  (c)  Purchaser to register on acquisition.

A new owner of a vacant lot must, at the time of acquisition:

(1)      file a registration statement; and

(2)      pay the annual registration fee, unless that fee already was paid by the prior owner.

  (D)  EXCEPTIONS.

THIS SECTION DOES NOT APPLY TO A VACANT LOT THAT:

(1)      ADJOINS A NON-VACANT LOT TITLED TO THE SAME OWNER OF RECORD AS THE VACANT LOT;

(2)      CONTAINS A PARKING PAD ACTIVELY USED BY A NEARBY PROPERTY OWNER; OR

(3)      EXTENDS INTO BALTIMORE COUNTY.

  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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