Baltimore City Council
File #: 11-0003    Version: 0 Name: Public Ethics - Financial Disclosures - Online Posting of Elected Officials' Statements
Type: Ordinance Status: Withdrawn
File created: 12/8/2011 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 1/28/2013
Enactment #:
Title: Public Ethics - Financial Disclosures - Online Posting of Elected Officials' Statements FOR the purpose of requiring disclosure statements filed by elected officials to be posted on the Ethics Board's Website; excepting these statements from a certain record of inspections; deleting erroneous references to the copying of disclosure statements; and generally relating to the financial disclosure provisions of the City Ethics Code.
Sponsors: Carl Stokes
Indexes: Disclosures, Elected Officials, Financial, Public Ethics
Attachments: 1. 11-0003 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Law - 11-0003.pdf, 3. Ethics - 11-0003.pdf, 4. MOIT - 11-0003.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 Stokes                                                                                              
 
      A BILL ENTITLED
 
AN ORDINANCE concerning
title
Public Ethics - Financial Disclosures - Online Posting of Elected Officials' Statements
 
FOR the purpose of requiring disclosure statements filed by elected officials to be posted on the Ethics Board's Website; excepting these statements from a certain record of inspections; deleting erroneous references to the copying of disclosure statements; and generally relating to the financial disclosure provisions of the City Ethics Code.
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BY adding
  Article 8 - Ethics
  Section 7-4
  Baltimore City Code
   (Edition 2000)
 
BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
  Article 8 - Ethics
  Section 7-4
  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
 
§ 7-4.  ONLINE POSTING OF ELECTED OFFICIALS' STATEMENTS.
 
 
ON OR BEFORE MAY 15 OF EACH YEAR, THE ETHICS BOARD MUST  POST ON ITS WEBSITE ALL STATEMENTS FILED BY ELECTED OFFICIALS FOR THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR.  THESE STATEMENTS MUST REMAIN POSTED UNTIL 1 YEAR AFTER THE ELECTED OFFICIAL LEAVES OFFICE AND, IF REQUIRED, HAS FILED A DEPARTURE STATEMENT UNDER § 7-11 OF THIS SUBTITLE.
 
§ 7-5. [§ 7-4.]  Record of inspections.
 
[The] EXCEPT FOR STATEMENTS POSTED ONLINE IN ACCORD WITH § 7-4 OF THIS SUBTITLE, THE Executive Director must require each person who inspects [or copies] a statement filed under this subtitle to:
 
(1)      identify himself or herself; and
 
(2)      record:
 
(i)      his or her name, home address, telephone number, and organization represented; and
 
(ii)      the name of the person whose statement was inspected [or copied].
 
  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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