Baltimore City Council
File #: 08-0246    Version: 0 Name: Enticing Minors - Expanded Coverage
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 12/4/2008 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 3/20/2009
Enactment #: 09-143
Title: Enticing Minors - Expanded Coverage FOR the purpose of extending the prohibition against enticing, etc., certain younger children into a vehicle to encompass all minors; increasing the penalties for violations; conforming, correcting, and clarifying certain exceptions and related language; and generally relating to the protection of minors from predators.
Sponsors: James B. Kraft, President Young, Bill Henry, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Sharon Green Middleton, William H. Cole, IV, Mary Pat Clarke, Robert Curran, Belinda Conaway
Indexes: Minors, Solicitation
Attachments: 1. 08-0246 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Finance - 08-0246.pdf, 3. Youth Comm. - 08-0246.pdf, 4. Law - 09-0246.pdf, 5. Criminal Justice - 08-0246.pdf, 6. Police - 08-0246.pdf, 7. 08-0246 - 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
Enticing Minors - Expanded Coverage

FOR the purpose of extending the prohibition against enticing, etc., certain younger children into a vehicle to encompass all minors; increasing the penalties for violations; conforming, correcting, and clarifying certain exceptions and related language; and generally relating to the protection of minors from predators.
Body
BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article 19 - Police Ordinances
Section(s) 38-1
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 38. Minors – Miscellaneous

§ 381. Enticing child into vehicle.

(A) “MINOR” DEFINED.

“MINOR” MEANS ANY PERSON UNDER THE AGE OF 18 YEARS.

(B) [(a)] Prohibited conduct.

[It shall be unlawful for any] EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED IN THIS SECTION, NO person MAY, by any means, [to] solicit, coax, entice, or lure any [child under 14 years of age] MINOR to enter into any vehicle, regardless of whether [or not] the [offender] PERSON knows the age of the [child,] MINOR [unless:].



(C) EXCEPTIONS.

THIS SECTION DOES NOT APPLY TO:

(1) [the] A person WHO has [the] express OR IMP...

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