City of Baltimore - File #: 06-0219R

• File #: 06-0219R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - City Process - Auctioning Off Cars Before Their Time?
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Failed - End of Term
• File created: 9/25/2006
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 12/5/2007
• Title: Informational Hearing - City Process - Auctioning Off Cars Before Their Time? FOR the purpose of requesting that the Director of Transportation brief the Council on the current Department of Transportation vehicle auctioning policies, provide information on recent reports that hundreds of cars are being sold before their proper time or without appropriate reason to do so, and how the Department of Transportation and the Police Department plan to fix communication gaps that are allowing the vehicles of Baltimore City citizens to be towed and auctioned off without cause or before there is an appropriate, reasonable opportunity for retrieval.
• Sponsors: President Young, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, James B. Kraft, Helen L. Holton, Edward Reisinger, Mary Pat Clarke, Keiffer Mitchell, Agnes Welch, Kenneth Harris, President Dixon, Stephanie Rawlings Blake
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
2/12/2007	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
9/28/2006	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
9/28/2006	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
9/28/2006	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
9/25/2006	0	City Council	Introduced
9/25/2006	0	City Council	Assigned

* 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 R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Young


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Informational Hearing - City Process - Auctioning Off Cars Before Their Time?

FOR the purpose of requesting that the Director of Transportation brief the Council on the current Department of Transportation vehicle auctioning policies, provide information on recent reports that hundreds of cars are being sold before their proper time or without appropriate reason to do so, and how the Department of Transportation and the Police Department plan to fix communication gaps that are allowing the vehicles of Baltimore City citizens to be towed and auctioned off without cause or before there is an appropriate, reasonable opportunity for retrieval.
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Recent reports have shown that the Baltimore City Department of Transportation has sold 10,176 cars in the last year. A few of these vehicles were obtained through seizures by police for drug and other various criminal activities. The majority of these vehicles, however, were obtained because they were considered abandoned or disabled vehicles. The major issue is that many of these vehicles were not abandoned at all. In many cases these cars were simply impounded for parking violations, and the owner failed to retrieve his or her vehicle within the allotted frame of time the City offers before the car can be sold.

One of the major problems with the current system is...