Baltimore City Council
File #: 08-0255    Version: 0 Name: Taxicabs and Other Common Carriers - Refusal to Pay Fare
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 12/4/2008 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 3/20/2009
Enactment #: 09-151
Title: Taxicabs and Other Common Carriers - Refusal to Pay Fare FOR the purpose of increasing the penalty for wilful refusal to pay proper charges for transport in a taxicab or other common carrier; and correcting, conforming, and clarifying related language.
Sponsors: James B. Kraft, William H. Cole, IV, Bill Henry, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Robert Curran, Belinda Conaway, Mary Pat Clarke
Indexes: Taxi
Attachments: 1. 08-0255 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Finance - 08-0255.pdf, 3. Law - 09-0255.pdf, 4. Police - 08-0255.pdf, 5. 08-0255 - 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 Kraft                                                                                              

 

                     A BILL ENTITLED

 

AN ORDINANCE concerning

Title

Taxicabs and Other Common Carriers - Refusal to Pay Fare

 

FOR the purpose of increasing the penalty for wilful refusal to pay proper charges for transport in a taxicab or other common carrier; and correcting, conforming, and clarifying related language.

Body

BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments

   Article 19 - Police Ordinances

   Section(s) 52-2

   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 19.  Police Ordinances

 

                     Subtitle 52.  Taxicabs

 

§ 521.  Refusal to pay fare.

 

   (a)  Prohibited conduct[; penalties].

 

[Any] IT IS UNLAWFUL FOR ANY person who engages and accepts transportation in a [public] taxicab or other vehicle operated as a common carrier[, under any conditions whereby a charge therefor is not paid in advance, and who] TO wilfully [refuses] REFUSE to pay the proper charges at the conclusion of [such] THE transportation[, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine of not more than $50 for each such offense].

 

 

   (b)  Special arrangements allowed.

 

[Nothing in this] THIS section [shall be construed to] DOES NOT prevent the owner or operator of [any such] THE TAXICAB OR OTHER common carrier from [making a special agreement] ARRANGING with the person who engaged and accepted transportation[,] for [the] subsequent payment of THE charges due.

 

   (C)  PENALTIES.

 

ANY PERSON WHO VIOLATES A PROVISION OF THIS SECTION IS GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR AND, ON CONVICTION, IS SUBJECT TO A FINE OF $250 FOR EACH 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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