Baltimore City Council
File #: 08-0251    Version: 0 Name: Parades - Permit Requirements
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 12/4/2008 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 3/20/2009
Enactment #: 09-147
Title: Parades - Permit Requirements FOR the purpose of increasing the penalty for parading without permit; repealing certain obsolete or otherwise unnecessary provisions relating to parades by political organizations and to parades of drum corps, bands, or other bodies; providing for the issuance of these permits by the Department of General Services and authorizing the adoption of rules and regulations for that purpose; and providing for a special effective date.
Sponsors: James B. Kraft, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Robert Curran
Indexes: parades, Permits
Attachments: 1. 08-0251 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Finance - 08-0251.pdf, 3. DPW - 08-0251.pdf, 4. Law - 08-0251.pdf, 5. Police - 08-0251.pdf, 6. 08-0251 - 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
Title
Parades - Permit Requirements

FOR the purpose of increasing the penalty for parading without permit; repealing certain obsolete or otherwise unnecessary provisions relating to parades by political organizations and to parades of drum corps, bands, or other bodies; providing for the issuance of these permits by the Department of General Services and authorizing the adoption of rules and regulations for that purpose; and providing for a special effective date.
Body
BY repealing
Article 19 - Police Ordinances
Section(s) 50-31 and 50-33
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)

BY renumbering, with amendments
Article 19 - Police Ordinances
Section(s) 50-32
to be
Section(s) 50-31
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 50. Street Regulations

Part 5. Parades


[ยงย 5031. Political organizations.

(a) Permit required.

It shall not be lawful for any political organization to parade through the streets of the City without first obtaining a permit from the Mayor.

(b) Issuance.

And the Mayor shall at his discretion issue said permit to any and all polit...

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