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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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