City of Baltimore - File #: 10-0197R

• File #: 10-0197R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - Is there Uniform Application of the Padlock Law?
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Failed - End of Term
• File created: 4/12/2010
• In control: City Council
• Title: Informational Hearing - Is there Uniform Application of the Padlock Law? FOR the purpose of requesting the Police Commissioner to report on the application of the padlock law, the number of instances in which the law has been used to address public nuisances, the neighborhoods in which businesses or residences have been closed as a result of the Commissioner enforcing the padlock law, and the number of complaints of public 222nuisances that met the criteria for application of the padlock law in comparison to the number of times the law has been applied in each Council District.
• Sponsors: Belinda Conaway, Warren Branch, Mary Pat Clarke, Bill Henry, Edward Reisinger, Agnes Welch, Sharon Green Middleton
• Indexes: Padlock Law, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/6/2010	0	The City Council	Reassigned
4/15/2010	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/12/2010	0	City Council	Introduced
4/12/2010	0	City Council	Assigned

* 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 R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Conaway

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Informational Hearing - Is there Uniform Application of the Padlock Law?

FOR the purpose of requesting the Police Commissioner to report on the application of the padlock law, the number of instances in which the law has been used to address public nuisances, the neighborhoods in which businesses or residences have been closed as a result of the Commissioner enforcing the padlock law, and the number of complaints of public 222nuisances that met the criteria for application of the padlock law in comparison to the number of times the law has been applied in each Council District.
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The Baltimore City Code’s padlock law gives the Police Commissioner the power to order the discontinuence of a public nuisance in the premises or to order the closing of a premises to the extent necessary to abate the nuisance where any premises that, on 2 or more separate occasions within a 24 month period, was used for prostitution, lewdness, or assignation; illegal adult entertainment; drug use, manufacture, or distribution or storage; gambling; possession or storage of stolen property or illegal firearms; furtherance of a crime of violence; or for gang-related activities.

In April 1991, media reports heralded the first successful application of the 1986 padlock law as a house on East 30th Street, linked to drug trafficking...