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 Clarke
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Property Maintenance Code - Rain Barrels
FOR the purpose of excepting certain rain barrels from the requirement to elevate objects and materials stored outdoors; clarifying, correcting, and conforming certain language; and generally relating to the outdoor storage of objects and materials.
Body
BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article - Building, Fire, and Related Codes
Section(s) 7-102 (PMC § 304.7)
Baltimore City Revised 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 Revised Code
Article - Building, Fire, and Related Codes
Part VII. International Property Maintenance Code
§ 7-102. City modifications.
The additions, deletions, amendments, and other modifications adopted by the City are as follows:
Chapter 3. General Requirements
Section 304 Exterior Sanitary Maintenance - General
304.7 Outdoor storage. Outdoor storage must be neat and orderly.
304.7.1 ELEVATION REQUIRED - GENERAL. [All] EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED IN THIS § 304.7, ALL stored objects and materials must be elevated at least 1 foot off the ground to prevent rat harborage.
304.7.2 ELEVATION REQUIRED - EXCEPTIONS. THE REQUIREMENTS OF § 304.7.1 DO NOT APPLY TO:
A. RAIN BARRELS STORED ON A HARD AND IMPERVIOUS SURFACE, OR
B. [unless] ANY OTHER OBJECTS OR MATERIALS FOR WHICH THE CODE OFFICIAL DETERMINES THAT elevation is [determined] unnecessary [by the commissioner].
303.7.3 [304.7.1] Caveat. Nothing in this section authorizes any outdoor storage that is otherwise prohibited by law.
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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