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INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL
Introduced by: Councilmember Kraft
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Taxicabs and Other Common Carriers - Refusal to Pay Fare
FOR the purpose of increasing the penalty for wilful refusal to pay proper charges for transport in a taxicab or other common carrier; and correcting, conforming, and clarifying related language.
Body
BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article 19 - Police Ordinances
Section(s) 52-2
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 52. Taxicabs
ยง 521. Refusal to pay fare.
(a) Prohibited conduct[; penalties].
[Any] IT IS UNLAWFUL FOR ANY person who engages and accepts transportation in a [public] taxicab or other vehicle operated as a common carrier[, under any conditions whereby a charge therefor is not paid in advance, and who] TO wilfully [refuses] REFUSE to pay the proper charges at the conclusion of [such] THE transportation[, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine of not more than $50 for each such offense].
(b) Special arrangements allowed.
[Nothing in this] THIS section [shall be construed to] DOES NOT prevent the owner or operator of [any such] ...
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