Baltimore City Council
File #: 08-0255    Version: 0 Name: Taxicabs and Other Common Carriers - Refusal to Pay Fare
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 12/4/2008 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 3/20/2009
Enactment #: 09-151
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.
Sponsors: James B. Kraft, William H. Cole, IV, Bill Henry, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Robert Curran, Belinda Conaway, Mary Pat Clarke
Indexes: Taxi
Attachments: 1. 08-0255 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Finance - 08-0255.pdf, 3. Law - 09-0255.pdf, 4. Police - 08-0255.pdf, 5. 08-0255 - 3rd Reader.pdf
EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

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THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
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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