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INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL
Introduced by: Councilmember Kraft
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Mass Transit Vehicles - Obsolete Provisions
FOR the purpose of repealing obsolete or otherwise unnecessary provisions that duplicate prohibitions imposed by State law.
Body
BY repealing
Article 19 - Police Ordinances
Section(s) 29-1, 29-3, and 29-5
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 29. Mass Transit Vehicles
[§ 291. Eating and drinking.
(a) Prohibited conduct.
It shall be unlawful for any person to consume food or drink aboard a public passenger motor bus.
(b) Penalties.
Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine not exceeding $50 for each and every such violation.]
[§ 293. Radios and other electronics.
(a) Prohibited conduct.
It is unlawful for any person who is a passenger or rider upon any public passenger motor bus, streetcar, or other mass transit vehicle to operate and to make audible sounds with any radio, transistor radio, or other electronic equipment or device.
(b) Penalties.
Any person violating the provisions of this sect...
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