Baltimore City Council
File #: 08-0221    Version: 0 Name: Baltimore Small Business Opportunity Program
Type: Ordinance Status: Withdrawn
File created: 10/27/2008 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 1/11/2010
Enactment #:
Title: Baltimore Small Business Opportunity Program FOR the purpose of establishing the Baltimore Small Business Opportunity Program; providing for the certification and decertification of small businesses; establishing certain procurement reserves and procedures; requiring certain reports; prohibiting certain conduct and setting penalties for violations; defining certain terms; affirming the Charter-granted authority of the Board of Estimates; and generally relating to a small business opportunity program for Baltimore City.
Sponsors: Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, President Young, Sharon Green Middleton, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Bill Henry, William H. Cole, IV, Warren Branch, Agnes Welch, Rochelle Spector, Mary Pat Clarke, Helen L. Holton, Belinda Conaway, Robert Curran, James B. Kraft, Edward Reisinger
Indexes: Small Business Opportunity Program
Attachments: 1. 08-0221 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. MWBOO - 08-0221.pdf, 3. Minority & Women-Owned Bus. Dev. - 08-0221.pdf, 4. Finance - 08-0221.pdf, 5. DPW - 08-0221.pdf, 6. Transportation - 08-0221.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: President Rawlings-Blake

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Baltimore Small Business Opportunity Program

FOR the purpose of establishing the Baltimore Small Business Opportunity Program; providing for the certification and decertification of small businesses; establishing certain procurement reserves and procedures; requiring certain reports; prohibiting certain conduct and setting penalties for violations; defining certain terms; affirming the Charter-granted authority of the Board of Estimates; and generally relating to a small business opportunity program for Baltimore City.
Body
BY adding
Article 5 - Finance, Property, and Procurement
Section(s) 27-1 through 27-36, to be under the new subtitle designation,
“Subtitle 27. Baltimore Small Business Opportunity Program”
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 5. Finance, Property, and Procurement

SUBTITLE 27. BALTIMORE SMALL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM

PART I. DEFINITIONS; GENERAL PROVISIONS

§ 27-1. DEFINITIONS.

(A) IN GENERAL.

IN THIS SUBTITLE, THE FOLLOWING TERMS HAVE THE MEANINGS INDICATED UNLESS THE CONTEXT CLEARLY REQUIRES A DIFFERENT MEANING.


(B) CHIEF.

“CHIEF” MEANS THE CHIEF OF THE MINORI...

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