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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 16 Special fund for equity assistance.">
  <section prefix="§" num="16" heading="Special fund for equity assistance.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Authorization.">
      <para num="(1)">By Ordinance, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may establish a continuing, nonlapsing fund for purposes of assisting efforts that reduce inequity based on race, gender, or economic status in Baltimore.</para>
      <para num="(2)">These purposes include supporting and augmenting programs and activities that are designed to:<para num="(i)">provide equity in housing;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">provide equitable access to education;</para>
        <para num="(iii)">assist efforts to redress past inequities in City capital budget spending; and</para>
        <para num="(iv)">eliminating structural and institutional racism and other forms of discrimination based on immutable characteristics.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Revenue sources.">The fund established under &lt;cite data-path="I|§16"&gt;this section&lt;/cite&gt; may consist of:<para num="(1)">money appropriated to the fund in the annual Ordinance of Estimates;</para>
      <para num="(2)">grants or donations made to the fund; and</para>
      <para num="(3)">proceeds from fines, fees, surcharges, or other revenues dedicated to the fund by ordinance.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Continuing nature of fund.">Notwithstanding any other provision of this Charter, unspent portions of the fund established under &lt;cite data-path="I|§16"&gt;this section&lt;/cite&gt;:<para num="(1)">remain in the fund, to be used exclusively for their ordained purposes;</para>
      <para num="(2)">do not revert to the general revenues of the City; and</para>
      <para num="(3)">their appropriations do not lapse.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Res. 18-014, ratified Nov. 6, 2018</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
