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INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL
Introduced by: Councilmember Clarke
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Unsafe Vacant Structures - Posting Against Trespass
FOR the purpose of requiring unsafe vacant structures to be posted conspicuously against trespass; and generally relating to the required safeguarding of vacant structures.
Body
BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article - Building, Fire, and Related Codes
Section(s) 2-103 (IBC § 115.4.3)
Baltimore City Revised 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 Revised Code
Article - Building, Fire, and Related Codes
Part II. International Building Code
§ 2-103. City modifications.
The additions, deletions, amendments, and other modifications adopted by the City are as follows:
Chapter 1. Administration
Section 115 Unsafe Structures
115.4 Unsafe vacant structures. Every vacant structure, as defined in this § 115.4, is declared to be a fire hazard and a nuisance per se, and must be safeguarded and otherwise maintained as required in this § 115.4.
115.4.3 Required safeguarding. Every vacant structure must be cleaned, closed, and safeguarded as follows:
a. Before the structure is closed and secured, all litter, trash, and other debris must be removed from the premises.
2. All window...
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