Baltimore City Council
File #: 15-0540    Version: 0 Name: Social Host Regulation - Neighborhood Nuisances and Unruly Social Events
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 6/1/2015 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 6/24/2015
Enactment #: 15-389
Title: Social Host Regulation - Neighborhood Nuisances and Unruly Social Events FOR the purpose of extending the provisions governing the issuance of citations for certain "neighborhood nuisances" to include various types of "unruly social events"; specifying the responsibilities of owners, operators, tenants, and occupants of and persons with possessory interests in a premises to prevent use of those premises for neighborhood nuisances and unruly social events; prohibiting these persons from conducting, causing, permitting, aiding, or condoning neighborhood nuisances and unruly social events on their premises; providing for the civil liability of the parents and legal guardians of juveniles who violate this prohibition; repealing criminal penalties for violations and providing for enforcement by civil citations; defining certain terms; providing for a special effective date; and generally relating to the civil enforcement of certain activities involving conduct that disturbs the quiet enjoy...
Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Bill Henry, Sharon Green Middleton, Eric T. Costello, Brandon M. Scott, James B. Kraft, President Young, Carl Stokes, William "Pete" Welch, Edward Reisinger, Rochelle Spector, Warren Branch, Robert Curran, Helen L. Holton, Nick Mosby
Indexes: Neighborhood, Nuisance, Social Events, Social Host Regulation
Attachments: 1. 15-0540~1st Reader, 2. HCD 15-0540, 3. Police 15-0540, 4. City Solicitor 15-0540, 5. Environmental Control Board 15-0540, 6. 15-0540~3rd Reader, 7. 2nd Reader Amendments 15-0540
Date Ver.Action ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsVideo
7/20/20150 Mayor Signed by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/15/20150 City Council Approved and Sent to the Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/15/20150 City Council Advanced to 3rd Reader, for Final Passage  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/15/20150 Judiciary and Legislative Investigations Recommended Favorably with Amendment  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/9/20150 Judiciary and Legislative Investigations Recommended Favorably with AmendmentPass Action details Meeting details Not available
6/4/20150 The City Council Refer to Dept. of Housing and Community Development  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/4/20150 The City Council Refer to Environmental Control Board  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/4/20150 The City Council Refer to Police Department  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/4/20150 The City Council Refer to City Solicitor  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/1/20150 City Council Assigned  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/1/20150 City Council Introduced  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/1/20150 Judiciary and Legislative Investigations Scheduled for a Public Hearing  Action details Meeting details Not available
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: Councilmembers Clarke and Henry

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
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Social Host Regulation - Neighborhood Nuisances and Unruly Social Events
FOR the purpose of extending the provisions governing the issuance of citations for certain "neighborhood nuisances" to include various types of "unruly social events"; specifying the responsibilities of owners, operators, tenants, and occupants of and persons with possessory interests in a premises to prevent use of those premises for neighborhood nuisances and unruly social events; prohibiting these persons from conducting, causing, permitting, aiding, or condoning neighborhood nuisances and unruly social events on their premises; providing for the civil liability of the parents and legal guardians of juveniles who violate this prohibition; repealing criminal penalties for violations and providing for enforcement by civil citations; defining certain terms; providing for a special effective date; and generally relating to the civil enforcement of certain activities involving conduct that disturbs the quiet enjoyment by others of private or public property or that includes underage consumption of alcoholic beverages.
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BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article 19. Police Ordinances
Subtitle 43B. Neighborhood Nuisances ? Citations, in its entirety, to be under the
new subtitle designation, Subtitle 43B. Neighborhood Nuisances and...

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