Baltimore City Council
File #: 10-0528    Version: 0 Name: Amusement Devices - Clarification
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 6/14/2010 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 8/10/2010
Enactment #: 10-356
Title: Amusement Devices - Clarification FOR the purpose of correcting an error in the stated scope of certain provisions allowing certain payments to be made quarterly; clarifying the intended scope of those provisions; providing for a special effective date; and generally relating to the licensing and regulation of amusement devices.
Sponsors: James B. Kraft, William H. Cole, IV, Carl Stokes, President Young, Sharon Green Middleton, Belinda Conaway, Rochelle Spector, Agnes Welch, Bill Henry, Robert Curran, Helen L. Holton
Indexes: Amusement, Devices, Slot Machines
Attachments: 1. 10-0528 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Law - 10-0528.pdf, 3. BMZA - 10-0528 .pdf, 4. Planning - 10-0528.pdf, 5. Finance - 10-0528.pdf, 6. 10-0528 - 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
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Amusement Devices - Clarification

FOR the purpose of correcting an error in the stated scope of certain provisions allowing certain payments to be made quarterly; clarifying the intended scope of those provisions; providing for a special effective date; and generally relating to the licensing and regulation of amusement devices.
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BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article 15 - Licensing and Regulation
Section(s) 2-15(e)
Baltimore City Code
(As amended by Ord. 10-____ {Bill 09-290})

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 15. Licensing and Regulation

Subtitle 1. Amusements

Part 3. Amusement Devices

ยงย 215. Fees and taxes.

(e) Quarterly payments FOR SIMULATED SLOT MACHINES.

(1) [Payments] FEES AND TAXES required TO BE PAID [by] UNDER this [subtitle] PART 3 FOR SIMULATED SLOT MACHINES may be made in equal quarterly installments if:

(i) an additional service charge is paid with each quarterly payment;

(ii) all payments required by this [subtitle] PART for the previous year have been made; and



(iii) by January [1st] 1 of the year in which quarterly payments are to be made the person ...

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