Baltimore City Council
File #: 15-0512    Version: 0 Name: Baltimore Day
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 3/30/2015 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 5/14/2015
Enactment #: 15-358
Title: Baltimore Day FOR the purpose of declaring August 8 of each year to be Baltimore Day; requiring the Mayor to proclaim Baltimore Day on August 8 of each year; and providing for a special effective date.
Sponsors: James B. Kraft, President Young, Helen L. Holton, Bill Henry, Sharon Green Middleton, Eric T. Costello, Brandon M. Scott, Edward Reisinger, Mary Pat Clarke, Nick Mosby, Carl Stokes, Robert Curran, William "Pete" Welch
Indexes: Baltimore Day
Attachments: 1. 15-0512~1st Reader, 2. City Solicitor 15-0512, 3. 15-0512~3rd Reader
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 Kraft
                                                                                                                                                           
 
      A BILL ENTITLED
 
AN ORDINANCE concerning
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Baltimore Day
FOR the purpose of declaring August 8 of each year to be Baltimore Day; requiring the Mayor to proclaim Baltimore Day on August 8 of each year; and providing for a special effective date.
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BY adding                                    
  Article 1 - Mayor, City Council, and Municipal Agencies
  Section(s) 36-1, to be under the new subtitle,
�Subtitle 36.  Commemorative Days�
  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 1.  Mayor, City Council, and Municipal Agencies
 
      SUBTITLE 36.  COMMEMORATIVE DAYS
 
��1.  BALTIMORE DAY.
 
AUGUST 8 OF EACH YEAR SHALL BE BALTIMORE DAY IN HONOR OF BALTIMORE�S FOUNDING ON AUGUST 8, 1729.  THE MAYOR ANNUALLY SHALL PROCLAIM THIS DAY AS BALTIMORE DAY, TO RECOGNIZE THIS IMPORTANT MOMENT IN THE CITY�S HISTORY.
 
  SECTION 2.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That the catchlines contained in this Ordinance are not law and may not be considered to have been enacted as a part of this or any prior Ordinance.
 
  SECTION 3.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance takes effect when it is enacted.
 
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