Baltimore City Council
File #: 06-0514    Version: 0 Name: Vacant Building Receivers
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 9/18/2006 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 3/19/2007
Enactment #: 07-401
Title: Vacant Building Receivers FOR the purpose of extending the provisions authorizing vacant building receivers to apply to all vacant buildings, as defined; and generally relating the appointment of and procedures applicable to vacant building receivers.
Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, James B. Kraft, President Young, Helen L. Holton, Rochelle Spector, Keiffer Mitchell, Kenneth Harris, Robert Curran, Stephanie Rawlings Blake, Belinda Conaway, Agnes Welch, President Dixon, Edward Reisinger
Indexes: Building, Receivers, Vacant
Attachments: 1. 06-0514 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. 06-0514 - 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 Clarke                                                                                             

 

                     A BILL ENTITLED

 

AN ORDINANCE concerning

Title

Vacant Building Receivers

 

FOR the purpose of extending the provisions authorizing vacant building receivers to apply to all vacant buildings, as defined; and generally relating the appointment of and procedures applicable to vacant building receivers.

Body

BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments

Article - Building, Fire, and Related Codes

Section(s) 2-103 (BC § 121.1)

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 II.  International Building Code

 

§ 2-103.  City modifications.

 

The additions, deletions, amendments, and other modifications adopted by the City are as follows:

 

 

                     Chapter 1.  Administration

 

Section 121 Vacant Building Receiver

 

121.1  Scope.  This § 121 applies to a vacant building, as defined in § 115.4, [that contains 1 or more dwelling units and] for which the owner has failed to comply with a notice or order to rehabilitate.

 

 

 

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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