City of Baltimore - File #: 08-0127

• File #: 08-0127
• Version: 0
• Name: Accident and Disabled-Vehicle Towing
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 5/19/2008
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 10/2/2008
• Enactment #: 08-77
• Title: Accident and Disabled-Vehicle Towing FOR the purpose of clarifying and revising the laws governing accident and disabled-vehicle towing to, among other things, further protect the public from unauthorized, predatory towers; conforming these laws to current practices; correcting, clarifying, and conforming related provisions; increasing certain penalties; authorizing the issuance of civil citations, subject to certain penalties, for violations; and generally relating to the towing of vehicles disabled by accident.
• Sponsors: Robert Curran, Rochelle Spector, President Young, James B. Kraft, Bill Henry, Warren Branch, Helen L. Holton, Sharon Green Middleton, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Mary Pat Clarke, Agnes Welch, Edward Reisinger
• Indexes: Disabled Vehicles, Towing

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/2/2008	0	Mayor	Signed by Mayor
9/8/2008	0	City Council	Approved and Sent to the Mayor
8/11/2008	0	City Council	Amended
7/21/2008	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Recommended Favorably with Amendment
7/21/2008	0	City Council	Amended
7/21/2008	0	City Council	Advanced to 3rd Rdr., Adopted Comm. Report
6/16/2008	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
5/22/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
5/22/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
5/22/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
5/22/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
5/22/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
5/22/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
5/22/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
5/19/2008	0	City Council	Introduced
5/19/2008	0	City Council	Assigned

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: Councilmembers Curran, Spector

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Accident and Disabled-Vehicle Towing

FOR the purpose of clarifying and revising the laws governing accident and disabled-vehicle towing to, among other things, further protect the public from unauthorized, predatory towers; conforming these laws to current practices; correcting, clarifying, and conforming related provisions; increasing certain penalties; authorizing the issuance of civil citations, subject to certain penalties, for violations; and generally relating to the towing of vehicles disabled by accident.
Body
BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article 31 - Transit and Traffic
Section(s) 22-1 to 22-19, to be under the renamed subtitle designation,
“Subtitle 22. Towing Services – Accident Towing”
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)

BY renaming
Article 15 - Licensing and Regulation
Subtitle 22. Towing Services
to be
Subtitle 22. Towing Services – Trespass Towing
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)

BY adding
Article 1 - Mayor, City Council, and Municipal Agencies
Section(s) 41-14(4)(Subtitle 22)
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 31. Transit and Traffic
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