Baltimore City Council
File #: 16-0758    Version: 0 Name: Health - Hydraulic Fracturing Ban
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 9/19/2016 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 12/5/2016
Enactment #: 16-591
Title: Health - Hydraulic Fracturing Ban For the purpose of prohibiting hydraulic fracturing in Baltimore City; setting certain penalties; and generally relating to the regulation of hydraulic fracturing and its byproducts.
Sponsors: Robert Curran, Carl Stokes, Helen L. Holton, Bill Henry, Sharon Green Middleton, Mary Pat Clarke, Rochelle Spector, James B. Kraft
Indexes: Health, Hydraulic Fracturing
Attachments: 1. 16-0758~1st Reader, 2. DPW 16-0758, 3. City Solicitor 16-0758, 4. Health 16-0758, 5. 16-0758~3rd Reader

Introduced by: Councilmember Curran
A Bill Entitled

An Ordinance concerning
title
Health - Hydraulic Fracturing Ban
For the purpose of prohibiting hydraulic fracturing in Baltimore City; setting certain penalties; and generally relating to the regulation of hydraulic fracturing and its byproducts.
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By renaming
Article - Health
Title 7, Subtitle 5. Wastewater from Hydraulic Fracturing
to be
Title 7, Subtitle 5. Hydraulic Fracturing
Baltimore City Revised Code
(Edition 2000)

By adding
Article - Health
Section(s) 7-502
Baltimore City Revised Code
(Edition 2000)

By renumbering
Article - Health
Section(s) 7-502 and 7-503
to be
Article - Health
Section(s) 7-503 and 7-504
Baltimore City Revised 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 Revised Code

Article - Health


Title 7. Waste Control

Subtitle 5. [Wastewater from] Hydraulic Fracturing

§ 7-502. Hydraulic fracturing prohibited

No person may make use of hydraulic fracturing to extract oil, gas, or other hydrocarbons within the City of Baltimore.

§ 7-503. [§ 7-502.] Storing, treating, disposing, etc., wastewater prohibited.

No person may store, treat, discharge, or dispose of in the City or in or on any City-owned facility or property, wherever situated, any flow back or other wastewater resulting from hydraulic fracturing.

§ 7-504. [§ 7-503.] Penalties: $1,000 and 90 days.

(a) In general.

Any person who violates any provision of this subtitle is guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, is subject to a fine of not more than $1,000, imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or both fine and imprisonment for each offense.

(b) Each day a separate offense.

Each day that a violation continues is a separate offense.

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