Baltimore City Council
File #: 20-0612    Version: 0 Name: Explosive Material - Reporting
Type: Ordinance Status: Failed - End of Term
File created: 9/21/2020 In control: Public Safety Committee
On agenda: Final action: 12/7/2020
Enactment #:
Title: Explosive Material - Reporting For the purpose of requiring persons to report certain explosives to the Baltimore City Office of Emergency Management; defining certain terms; and providing for certain penalties.
Sponsors: Bill Henry, John T. Bullock, Zeke Cohen, Mary Pat Clarke, Ryan Dorsey, Kristerfer Burnett, Leon F. Pinkett, III, Sharon Green Middleton
Indexes: Explosive Material
Attachments: 1. 20-0612~1st Reader, 2. Law 20-0612, 3. BPD 20-0612
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 Henry

A Bill Entitled

An Ordinance concerning
title
Explosive Material - Reporting
For the purpose of requiring persons to report certain explosives to the Baltimore City Office of Emergency Management; defining certain terms; and providing for certain penalties.
body

By adding
Article 19 - Police Ordinances
Section(s) 18-1 through 18-3, to be under the new subtitle,
“Subtitle 18. Explosives”
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 18. Explosives

§ 18-1. Definitions.

(a) In general.

In this subtitle, the following terms have the meaning specified.

(b) Explosives.

(1) In general.

“Explosives” means gunpowder, powders for blasting, high explosives, blasting materials, fuses other than electric circuit breakers, detonators and other detonating agents, smokeless powder, and any chemical compound or mechanical mixture that contains oxidizing and combustible units or other ingredients in such proportions, quantities, or packing that ignition by fire, friction, concussion, percussion, or detonation of any part of the compound or mixture may and is intended to cause an explosion.

(2) Inclusions.

“Explosives” includes:

(i) bombs and destructive devices designed to operate...

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