City of Baltimore - File #: 13-0214

• File #: 13-0214
• Version: 0
• Name: Change to Grow: 10-Year Plan - Excise Tax on Outdoor Advertising
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 4/22/2013
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 6/20/2013
• Enactment #: 13-139
• Title: Change to Grow: 10-Year Plan - Excise Tax on Outdoor Advertising FOR the purpose of imposing a tax on the privilege of exhibiting outdoor advertising displays in the City; providing for the administration and collection of the tax; defining certain terms; imposing certain penalties; making the provisions of this ordinance severable; and generally relating to a tax on the privilege of exhibiting outdoor advertising displays.
• Sponsors: City Council President (Administration)
• Indexes: Change to Grow: 10-Year Plan, Excise Tax, Outdoor Advertising

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/20/2013	0	Mayor	Signed by Mayor
6/17/2013	0	City Council	Adopt the Amendments as Read
6/17/2013	0	City Council	Approved and Sent to the Mayor
6/17/2013	0	City Council	Advanced to 3rd Reader, for Final Passage
6/13/2013	0	Taxation, Finance and Economic Development Committee	Recommended Unfavorably with Amendment
4/25/2013	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/25/2013	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/25/2013	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/25/2013	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/22/2013	0	City Council	Introduced
4/22/2013	0	City Council	Assigned
4/22/2013	0	Taxation, Finance and Economic Development Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing

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: The Council President
At the request of: The Administration (Department of Finance)

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
title
Change to Grow: 10-Year Plan - Excise Tax on Outdoor Advertising

FOR the purpose of imposing a tax on the privilege of exhibiting outdoor advertising displays in the City; providing for the administration and collection of the tax; defining certain terms; imposing certain penalties; making the provisions of this ordinance severable; and generally relating to a tax on the privilege of exhibiting outdoor advertising displays.
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BY authority of
Article II - General Powers
Section(s) (40) and (47)
Baltimore City Charter
(1996 Edition)

BY adding
Article 28 - Taxes
Section(s) 29-1 to 29-14 to be under the new subtitle designation,
“Subtitle 29. Outdoor Advertising Excise Tax”
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)

Recitals

Outdoor advertising constitutes a separate and distinct type of activity within the City that affects the use of City streets, sidewalks, and other public places while impacting many private places open to the public.

The unregulated display of outdoor advertising constitutes a public nuisance that imposes costs on the City beyond those caused by other activities by harming the health, safety, convenience, and welfare of the residents of the City.

The Council has determined that outdoor advertising e...