Baltimore City Council
File #: 08-0186    Version: 0 Name: Scrap - Collectors, Scavengers, Processors, and Others - Penalties
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 8/11/2008 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 9/29/2008
Enactment #: 08-76
Title: Scrap - Collectors, Scavengers, Processors, and Others - Penalties FOR the purpose of increasing the penalties for violations by scrap collectors, scavengers, scrap metal processors, and others who collect, buy, process, sell, transport, or otherwise deal in scrap; and correcting, conforming, and clarifying related provisions.
Sponsors: Belinda Conaway, President Young, Sharon Green Middleton, Bill Henry, Warren Branch, William H. Cole, IV, Mary Pat Clarke, Rochelle Spector, Agnes Welch, Helen L. Holton, James B. Kraft
Indexes: Collectors, Penalties, Processors, Scavengers, Scrap
Attachments: 1. 08-0186 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Finance - 08-0186.pdf, 3. Law - 08-0186.pdf, 4. MOCJ - 08-0186.pdf, 5. Police - 08-0186.pdf, 6. 08-0186 - 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 Conaway                                                                                         
 
      A BILL ENTITLED
 
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Scrap - Collectors, Scavengers, Processors, and Others - Penalties
 
FOR the purpose of increasing the penalties for violations by scrap collectors, scavengers, scrap metal processors, and others who collect, buy, process, sell, transport, or otherwise deal in scrap; and correcting, conforming, and clarifying related provisions.
Body
BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
  Article 2 - Consumer Protections
  Section(s) 7-10, 8-14
  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 2.  Consumer Protections
 
      Subtitle 7.  Scrap Collectors and Scavengers
 
§ 710.  Penalties.
 
  (a) In general.
 
Any scrap collector, scavenger, or other person who violates any provision of this subtitle OR OF A RULE OR REGULATION ADOPTED UNDER THIS SUBTITLE is guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, is subject to a fine of not more than [$500] $1,000 for each offense.
 
  (b) Each day a separate offense.
 
            Each day that a violation continues is a separate offense.
 
 
 
Subtitle 8.  Scrap Metal Processors
 
§ 814.  Penalties.
 
  (A)  IN GENERAL.
 
Any scrap metal processor or other person who [willfully or knowingly] violates any provision of this subtitle OR OF A RULE OR REGULATION ADOPTED UNDER THIS SUBTITLE is guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, is subject to a fine of not more than [$500] $1,000 for each offense.
 
  (B) EACH DAY A SEPARATE OFFENSE.
 
            EACH DAY THAT A VIOLATION CONTINUES IS A SEPARATE OFFENSE.
 
  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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