City of Baltimore - File #: 07-0701

• File #: 07-0701
• Version: 0
• Name: Dwelling Units - Utility Cut-Offs
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Failed - End of Term
• File created: 6/4/2007
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 12/5/2007
• Title: Dwelling Units - Utility Cut-Offs FOR the purpose of requiring gas and electric utilities to provide certain notices before terminating service to a dwelling; requiring the Fire Department to inspect for and, if needed, install smoke detectors in dwellings to which the electricity has been cut off; requiring the Housing Commissioner to revoke the occupancy permit of a dwelling to which the gas or electricity has been cut off; and generally relating to the termination of gas or electric service.
• Sponsors: Belinda Conaway, President Young, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Robert Curran, Helen L. Holton, Mary Pat Clarke, Edward Reisinger, Keiffer Mitchell, Sharon Green Middleton, James B. Kraft, Agnes Welch, Vernon E. Crider
• Indexes: Cut-off, Dwellings, Utility

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
7/16/2007	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
6/7/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
6/7/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
6/7/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
6/4/2007	0	City Council	Introduced
6/4/2007	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: Councilmember Conaway

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Dwelling Units - Utility Cut-Offs

FOR the purpose of requiring gas and electric utilities to provide certain notices before terminating service to a dwelling; requiring the Fire Department to inspect for and, if needed, install smoke detectors in dwellings to which the electricity has been cut off; requiring the Housing Commissioner to revoke the occupancy permit of a dwelling to which the gas or electricity has been cut off; and generally relating to the termination of gas or electric service.
Body
BY adding
Article 13 - Housing and Urban Renewal
Section(s) 10A-1 to 10A-7, to be under the new subtitle,
"Subtitle 10A. Utility Cut-Offs"
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 10A. UTILITY CUT-OFFS

§ 10A-1. DEFINITIONS.

(A) IN GENERAL.

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

(B) COMMISSIONER.

"COMMISSIONER" MEANS THE COMMISSIONER OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OR THE COMMISSIONER'S DESIGNEE.



(C) DWELLING UNIT.

"DWELLING UNIT" HAS THE MEANING STATED IN § 202.2 OF THE PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE OF BALTIMORE CITY.

§ 10A-2. IN GENERAL.

B...