City of Baltimore - File #: 10-0602

• File #: 10-0602
• Version: 0
• Name: Marriage License Fees - Domestic Violence Shelters
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 9/20/2010
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 1/31/2011
• Enactment #: 11-412
• Title: Marriage License Fees - Domestic Violence Shelters FOR the purpose of increasing the additional fee for a marriage license to be dedicated and used for operating domestic violence shelters; and correcting an obsolete cross-reference.
• Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, William H. Cole, IV, Sharon Green Middleton, Bill Henry, Robert Curran, James B. Kraft, Rochelle Spector, Belinda Conaway, Agnes Welch
• Indexes: License Fees, Shelters, Violence

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/31/2011	0	Mayor	Signed by Mayor
1/24/2011	0	City Council	Approved and Sent to the Mayor
1/10/2011	0	Taxation, Finance and Economic Development Committee	Recommended Favorably
1/10/2011	0	City Council	Advanced to 3rd Rdr., Adopted Comm. Report
12/6/2010	0	Taxation, Finance and Economic Development Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
9/23/2010	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
9/23/2010	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
9/20/2010	0	City Council	Introduced
9/20/2010	0	City Council	Assigned

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 Clarke


A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
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Marriage License Fees - Domestic Violence Shelters

FOR the purpose of increasing the additional fee for a marriage license to be dedicated and used for operating domestic violence shelters; and correcting an obsolete cross-reference.
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BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article 5 - Finance, Property, and Procurement
Section(s) 48-1
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 48. Miscellaneous Fees

§ 481. Marriage license fees for domestic violence shelters.

(a) Collection and remittance.

Pursuant to State Family Law Article [§ 2404(h)] § 2404(D), the Clerk of the Circuit Court shall:

(1) collect an additional fee of [$25] $75 for the issuance of a marriage license in Baltimore City, and

(2) transmit the proceeds from this additional fee to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore on a monthly basis.



(b) Use of proceeds.

(1) The proceeds so transmitted shall be segregated in a special fund and available for appropriation for the sole purpose of operating domestic violence shelters which have a 24hour intake ability.

(2) The Dir...