Baltimore City Council
File #: 12-0053    Version: Name: Biennial Agency Audits
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 3/19/2012 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 8/15/2012
Enactment #: 12-09
Title: Biennial Agency Audits FOR the purpose of requiring all City agencies to have their operations audited every second fiscal year; defining certain terms; specifying who may conduct the audits; requiring certain reports; providing for a stagger in undergoing the audits; and generally relating to the biennial audit of City agencies.
Sponsors: Carl Stokes, Bill Henry, Warren Branch, Mary Pat Clarke, President Young, William "Pete" Welch
Indexes: Agency, Audits, Biennial
Attachments: 1. 12-0053 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Law - 12-0053.pdf, 3. Audits - 12-0053.pdf, 4. Finance - 12-0053.pdf, 5. 12-0053 - 3rd Reader.pdf
Date Ver.Action ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsVideo
8/15/20120 Mayor Signed by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/13/20120 City Council Approved and Sent to the Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/13/20120 City Council Approved and Sent to the Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/16/20120 City Council Amended  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/16/20120 City Council Advanced to 3rd Reader, for Final Passage  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/25/20120 City Council Amended  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/25/20120 City Council Re-referred to Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/18/20120 Judiciary and Legislative Investigations Recommended Favorably with Amendment  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/18/20120 City Council Held for 1 meeting  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/4/20120 Judiciary and Legislative Investigations Scheduled for a Public Hearing  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/4/20120 The City Council Reassigned  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/14/20120 Budget and Appropriations Committee Scheduled for a Public Hearing  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/22/20120 The City Council Referred for a Report  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/22/20120 The City Council Referred for a Report  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/22/20120 The City Council Referred for a Report  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/19/20120 City Council Introduced  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/19/20120 City Council Assigned  Action details Meeting details Not available
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
Biennial Agency Audits

FOR the purpose of requiring all City agencies to have their operations audited every second fiscal year; defining certain terms; specifying who may conduct the audits; requiring certain reports; providing for a stagger in undergoing the audits; and generally relating to the biennial audit of City agencies.
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BY adding
Article 1 - Mayor, City Council, and Municipal Agencies
Section(s) 9-1 through 9-5, to be under the new subtitle,
“Subtitle 9. Agency Audits”
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 1. Mayor, City Council, and Municipal Agencies

SUBTITLE 9. AGENCY AUDITS

§ 9-1. DEFINITIONS.

(A) IN GENERAL.

IN THIS SUBTITLE, THE FOLLOWING TERMS HAVE THE MEANINGS INDICATED.

(B) AGENCY.

“AGENCY” MEANS:

(1) ANY DEPARTMENT, BOARD, COMMISSION, COUNCIL, AUTHORITY, COMMITTEE, OFFICE, OR OTHER UNIT OF CITY GOVERNMENT; AND



(2) ANY INDIVIDUAL NOT EMBRACED IN A UNIT OF CITY GOVERNMENT WHO EXERCISES AUTHORITY COMPARABLE TO THAT OF THE HEAD OF A UNIT OF CITY GOVERNMENT.

(C) AUDIT.

(1) “AUDIT” MEANS AN AUDIT UNDERTAKEN IN ACCORDANCE WITH GENERALLY ACCEPTED GOVERNMEN...

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