Baltimore City Council
File #: 13-0237    Version: 0 Name: Automated Purchasing Machines
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 6/3/2013 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 9/18/2013
Enactment #: 13-166
Title: Automated Purchasing Machines FOR the purpose of prohibiting the use of automated purchasing machines for the purchase of personal property; defining certain terms; establishing certain exceptions; imposing certain penalties; and generally relating to purchasing or offering to purchase personal property by means of an automated purchasing machine.
Sponsors: Bill Henry, James B. Kraft, Nick Mosby, Rochelle Spector, Helen L. Holton, Warren Branch, Sharon Green Middleton, Brandon M. Scott, William "Pete" Welch, Edward Reisinger, President Young, William H. Cole, IV, Mary Pat Clarke
Indexes: Purchasing
Attachments: 1. 13-0237 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Law - 13-0237.pdf, 3. Police - 13-0237.pdf, 4. BDC - 13-0237.pdf, 5. Finance - 13-0237.pdf, 6. Sustainability - 13-0237.pdf, 7. 13-0237 - 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: Councilmember Henry

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
title
Automated Purchasing Machines

FOR the purpose of prohibiting the use of automated purchasing machines for the purchase of personal property; defining certain terms; establishing certain exceptions; imposing certain penalties; and generally relating to purchasing or offering to purchase personal property by means of an automated purchasing machine.
body

BY adding
Article 2 - Consumer Protections
Section(s) 12A-1 through 12A-5, to be under the new subtitle designation,
“Subtitle 12A. Automated Purchasing Machines”
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 2. Consumer Protections

SUBTITLE 12A. AUTOMATED PURCHASING MACHINES

§ 12A-1. DEFINITIONS.

(A) IN GENERAL.

IN THIS SUBTITLE, THE FOLLOWING TERMS HAVE THE MEANINGS INDICATED.

(B) AUTOMATED PURCHASING MACHINE.

“AUTOMATED PURCHASING MACHINE” (ALSO KNOWN AS A “REVERSE VENDING MACHINE”) MEANS A SELF-SERVICE AUTOMATED DEVICE THAT, WITHOUT THE PHYSICAL PRESENCE OF A HUMAN AGENT, IS CAPABLE OF TAKING POSSESSION OF AND DISPENSING PAYMENT FOR ANY 1 OR MORE TYPES OF PERSONAL PROPERTY.



(C) PERSON.

(1) “PERSON” MEANS:

(I) AN INDIVIDUAL; OR ...

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