Baltimore City Council
File #: 08-0213    Version: 0 Name: Vacant Lot Registration - Exceptions
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 10/6/2008 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 4/15/2010
Enactment #: 10-269
Title: Vacant Lot Registration - Exceptions FOR the purpose of excepting certain lots from the requirement to register vacant lots.
Sponsors: Robert Curran, Helen L. Holton, Rochelle Spector, President Young, Sharon Green Middleton, Warren Branch, William H. Cole, IV, Bill Henry, Edward Reisinger, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Belinda Conaway, Agnes Welch, Mary Pat Clarke
Indexes: Exceptions, Registration, Vacant Lot
Attachments: 1. 08-0213 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. HCD - 08-0213.pdf, 3. Law - 08-0213.pdf, 4. Finance - 08-0213.pdf, 5. Finance - 08-0213 (2nd reports) .pdf, 6. 08-0213 - 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: Councilmembers Curran, Holton, Spector

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Vacant Lot Registration - Exceptions

FOR the purpose of excepting certain lots from the requirement to register vacant lots.
Body
BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article 13 - Housing and Urban Renewal
Section(s) 11-2
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 13. Housing and Urban Renewal

Subtitle 11. Registration of Vacant Lots

?ΓΏ112. Registration required.

(a) Owner to register annually.

[By] EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBSECTION (D) OF THIS SECTION, BY September 1 of each year, the owner of a vacant lot that is assessed for $100 or more must file a registration statement with the Commissioner on a form to be provided by the Commissioner.

(b) Registration fee.

(1) The annual registration fee is $25 for each vacant lot, with a maximum fee of $5,000 for all lots titled to the same owner of record.

(2) This fee must be paid at the time of registration.


(c) Purchaser to register on acquisition.

A new owner of a vacant lot must, at the time of acquisition:

(1) file a registration statement; and

(2) pay the annual registration fee, unless that fee already was paid by the prior owner.

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