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INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL
Introduced by: Councilmember Kraft
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Street Regulations - Soliciting
FOR the purpose of extending certain prohibitions involving the solicitation of customers to apply to the solicitation of donations; increasing the penalties for a violation of these prohibitions; repealing certain obsolete or otherwise unnecessary sections involving solicitation activities; and correcting, clarifying, and conforming related language.
Body
BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article 19 - Police Ordinances
Subtitle 50, Part 8
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 8. Soliciting Customers OR DONATIONS
ยงย 5056. Obstructing passage prohibited.
[Any] IT IS UNLAWFUL FOR ANY person [who shall be found] in OR ON any [of the streets or highways] STREET or [upon any sidewalks or footways] SIDEWALK [engaged in obstructing the] TO OBSTRUCT passage along [any of said streets or highways or upon any of the said sidewalks or footways] THE STREET OR SIDEWALK by catching hold of or soliciting persons or in any way interfering with their free passage [along said streets, highways, sidewalks, or footways], for th...
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