Baltimore City Council
File #: 10-0438    Version: 0 Name: Police Vehicles - Recording Devices
Type: Ordinance Status: Failed - End of Term
File created: 1/11/2010 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action:
Enactment #:
Title: Police Vehicles - Recording Devices FOR the purpose of requiring police vehicles to be equipped with digital video and audio recording devices.
Sponsors: Belinda Conaway, Warren Branch, President Young, Sharon Green Middleton, Robert Curran, Agnes Welch, Mary Pat Clarke, Helen L. Holton
Indexes: Police, Recording Devices, Vehicles
Attachments: 1. 10-0438 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Finance - 10-0438.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 Conaway

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
title
Police Vehicles - Recording Devices

FOR the purpose of requiring police vehicles to be equipped with digital video and audio recording devices.
body
BY adding
Article 19 - Police Ordinances
Section(s) 69-1, to be under the new subtitle,
"Subtitle 69. Police Vehicles"
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 69. POLICE VEHICLES

ยง 69-1. RECORDING DEVICES REQUIRED.

(A) NEW VEHICLES.

ALL VEHICLES NEWLY PUT INTO SERVICE BY OR FOR THE BALTIMORE POLICE DEPARTMENT MUST BE EQUIPPED WITH DIGITAL VIDEO AND AUDIO RECORDING DEVICES.

(B) EXISTING VEHICLES.

EACH YEAR, AT LEAST 20% OF ALL OTHER VEHICLES IN SERVICE BY OR FOR THE BALTIMORE POLICE DEPARTMENT MUST BE EQUIPPED WITH DIGITAL VIDEO AND AUDIO RECORDING DEVICES.


SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That the catchlines contained in this Ordinance are not law and may not be considered to have been enacted as a part of this or any prior Ordinance.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance takes effect on the 30th day after the date it is enacted.

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