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INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL
Introduced by: Council President Rawlings-Blake
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Advertising Circulars
FOR the purpose of extending the prohibition on placing circulars to encompass those who cause the placement; specifying persons presumptively responsible for a violation; increasing the criminal penalty for violation; and generally relating to the placement of advertising circulars in or no vehicles or residential property.
Body
BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article 19 - Police Ordinances
Section(s) 1-2 through 1-4
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 19. Police Ordinances
Subtitle 1. Advertising Circulars
ยง 1-2. [Placement prohibited without permission] PROHIBITED PLACEMENTS.
A person may not affix, [or] place, OR CAUSE TO BE AFFIXED OR PLACED any advertising circular:
(1) in or on any vehicle in the City[, except with the express permission of the owner or operator of the vehicle]; or
(2) in or on any residential property in the City (whether in or on a fence, railing, door, porch, lawn, sidewalk, or otherwise), except[:
(i) with the express permission of the owner or occupant of that property; or
(ii)] by placing the advertising circular into a door slot or a nonlockable bin...
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