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INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL
Introduced by: Councilmember Kraft
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Sporting Events - Offenses Involving
FOR the purpose of modifying the penalties for certain offenses involving sporting events; and correcting, clarifying, and conforming related language.
Body
BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article 19 - Police Ordinances
Section(s) 48-1 through 48-4
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 19. Police Ordinances
Subtitle 48. Sporting Events
§ 481. Throwing missiles.
(a) “Missile” defined.
[As used in] IN this section, [the word] “missile” means any object [or thing] capable of being thrown or used as a projectile, but does not include empty paper wrappers.
(b) Exclusions.
This section [shall] DOES not apply to a member of a team or AN official participating as a principal in a sporting event while engaged in the course of conduct required by [such] THAT sporting event.
(c) Prohibited conduct.
It [shall be] IS unlawful for any person [or persons] to toss, throw, fling, or project, or to cause the tossing, throwing, flinging, or projecting of any missile:
(1) [upon] ON or in the direction of any member of a team or official participating ...
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