Baltimore City Council
File #: 08-0047    Version: 0 Name: "Dirt Bikes" - Unregistered Motorcycles and Similar Vehicles - Forfeiture Proceeding
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 2/25/2008 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 8/20/2008
Enactment #: 08-60
Title: "Dirt Bikes" - Unregistered Motorcycles and Similar Vehicles - Forfeiture Proceeding FOR the purpose of requiring a person who owns, controls, possesses, or has custody of a dirt bike or an unregistered motorcycle or similar vehicle to immobilize that vehicle while in Baltimore City; modifying certain restrictive provisions relating to published notice of a forfeiture petition; repealing certain provisions authorizing repossession of a vehicle pending a decision on forfeiture; prohibiting a secured party from selling a forfeited vehicle to the owner or other person from whom it was seized; correcting, clarifying, and conforming related language; and generally relating to dirt bikes or unregistered motorcycles or similar vehicles.
Sponsors: City Council President (Administration)
Indexes: Dirt Bikes, Forfeitures, Motorcycles, Unregistered
Attachments: 1. 08-0047 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. MOCJ - 08-0047.pdf, 3. Law - 08-0047.pdf, 4. Police - 08-0047.pdf, 5. 08-0047 - 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: The Council President
At the request of: The Administration (Law Department)

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
"Dirt Bikes" - Unregistered Motorcycles and Similar Vehicles - Forfeiture Proceeding

FOR the purpose of requiring a person who owns, controls, possesses, or has custody of a dirt bike or an unregistered motorcycle or similar vehicle to immobilize that vehicle while in Baltimore City; modifying certain restrictive provisions relating to published notice of a forfeiture petition; repealing certain provisions authorizing repossession of a vehicle pending a decision on forfeiture; prohibiting a secured party from selling a forfeited vehicle to the owner or other person from whom it was seized; correcting, clarifying, and conforming related language; and generally relating to dirt bikes or unregistered motorcycles or similar vehicles.
Body
BY repealing and reordaining, without amendments
Article 19 - Police Ordinances
Section(s) 40-6, 40-14(a) and (c)(1), and 40-17(b) and (c)
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)

BY repealing
Article 19 - Police Ordinances
Section(s) 40-16 and 40-17(d)
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 40. Unregistered Motorcycles and Similar Vehicles

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