Baltimore City Council
File #: 08-0256    Version: 0 Name: Ticket Sales - Public Carriers
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 12/4/2008 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 1/28/2009
Enactment #: 09-109
Title: Ticket Sales - Public Carriers FOR the purpose of repealing obsolete or otherwise unnecessary provisions prohibiting transactions involving certain tickets, reservations, or passenger accommodations issued by railroads or other public carriers.
Sponsors: James B. Kraft, Robert Curran
Indexes: Railroad, Ticket Resales, Ticket Sale
Attachments: 1. 08-0256 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Law - 08-0256.pdf, 3. Police - 08-0256.pdf, 4. Finance - 08-0256.pdf, 5. 08-0256 - 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 Kraft

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Ticket Sales - Public Carriers

FOR the purpose of repealing obsolete or otherwise unnecessary provisions prohibiting transactions involving certain tickets, reservations, or passenger accommodations issued by railroads or other public carriers.
Body
BY repealing
Article 19 - Police Ordinances
Section(s) 55-3 and 55-4
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 19. Police Ordinances

Subtitle 55. Ticket Sales

[ยงย 553. Partially used nontransferable railroad tickets.

(a) Prohibited trade.

It shall be unlawful for any person, association of persons, firm, or corporation, except such person or persons as may be the regularly authorized agents of a railroad company maintaining offices within the City of Baltimore:

(1) to engage in the business of buying and selling the unused portions of nontransferable railroad tickets whose use is restricted to the original purchasers thereof from the railroad company issuing them;

(2) to act as vendor or broker of partially used nontransferable railroad tickets; or



(3) to solicit personally or by sign or by advertisement or in any other manner to aid in the sale or purc...

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