Baltimore City Council
File #: 07-0648    Version: 0 Name: Multiple-Family Dwellings - First Amendment Accommodations
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 4/16/2007 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 11/8/2007
Enactment #: 07-529
Title: Multiple-Family Dwellings - First Amendment Accommodations FOR the purpose of preserving the constitutional rights of occupants of multiple-family dwellings; prohibiting bylaws, rules, regulations, or actions that impair certain constitutional rights or that prohibit or deny reasonable accommodation for religious practices; imposing certain penalties; providing for a special effective date; and generally relating to the regulation of apartment houses, condominiums, and other multiple-family dwellings.
Sponsors: Rochelle Spector, Robert Curran, Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, James B. Kraft, Sharon Green Middleton, Helen L. Holton, Agnes Welch, Edward Reisinger, Keiffer Mitchell, President Young, Vernon E. Crider, Mary Pat Clarke
Indexes: Accomodations, Dwellings, Multiple-Family
Attachments: 1. 07-0648 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. 07-0648 - 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 Spector


A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Multiple-Family Dwellings - First Amendment Accommodations

FOR the purpose of preserving the constitutional rights of occupants of multiple-family dwellings; prohibiting bylaws, rules, regulations, or actions that impair certain constitutional rights or that prohibit or deny reasonable accommodation for religious practices; imposing certain penalties; providing for a special effective date; and generally relating to the regulation of apartment houses, condominiums, and other multiple-family dwellings.
Body
BY repealing and reordaining, without amendments
Article 13 - Housing and Urban Renewal
Section(s) 5-1(d)
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)

BY adding
Article 13 - Housing and Urban Renewal
Section(s) 5-22, under the amended subtitle designation,
"Subtitle 5. Multiple-Family Dwellings and Rooming Houses"
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)

BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article 13 - Housing and Urban Renewal
Section(s) 5-21
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 13. Housing and Urban Renewal



Subtitle 5. [Licensing of] Multiple-Family Dwellings and Rooming Houses

ยง 5-1. Definitions.

(d) ...

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