Baltimore City Council
File #: 11-0003    Version: 0 Name: Public Ethics - Financial Disclosures - Online Posting of Elected Officials' Statements
Type: Ordinance Status: Withdrawn
File created: 12/8/2011 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 1/28/2013
Enactment #:
Title: Public Ethics - Financial Disclosures - Online Posting of Elected Officials' Statements FOR the purpose of requiring disclosure statements filed by elected officials to be posted on the Ethics Board's Website; excepting these statements from a certain record of inspections; deleting erroneous references to the copying of disclosure statements; and generally relating to the financial disclosure provisions of the City Ethics Code.
Sponsors: Carl Stokes
Indexes: Disclosures, Elected Officials, Financial, Public Ethics
Attachments: 1. 11-0003 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Law - 11-0003.pdf, 3. Ethics - 11-0003.pdf, 4. MOIT - 11-0003.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 Stokes

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
title
Public Ethics - Financial Disclosures - Online Posting of Elected Officials' Statements

FOR the purpose of requiring disclosure statements filed by elected officials to be posted on the Ethics Board's Website; excepting these statements from a certain record of inspections; deleting erroneous references to the copying of disclosure statements; and generally relating to the financial disclosure provisions of the City Ethics Code.
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BY adding
Article 8 - Ethics
Section 7-4
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)

BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article 8 - Ethics
Section 7-4
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 8. Ethics

Subtitle 7. Financial Disclosure

§ 7-4. ONLINE POSTING OF ELECTED OFFICIALS' STATEMENTS.


ON OR BEFORE MAY 15 OF EACH YEAR, THE ETHICS BOARD MUST POST ON ITS WEBSITE ALL STATEMENTS FILED BY ELECTED OFFICIALS FOR THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR. THESE STATEMENTS MUST REMAIN POSTED UNTIL 1 YEAR AFTER THE ELECTED OFFICIAL LEAVES OFFICE AND, IF REQUIRED, HAS FILED A DEPARTURE STATEMENT UNDER § 7-11 OF THIS SUBTITLE.

§ 7-5. [§ 7-4.] Record of inspections.

[The] EXCEP...

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