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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 17 Supplementary criminal apprehension and conviction fund.">
  <section prefix="§" num="17" heading="Supplementary criminal apprehension and conviction fund.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Fund established; Scope.">There is a continuing, nonlapsing  Supplementary Criminal Apprehension and Conviction Fund, to be used exclusively for purposes of supplementing rewards offered to the public from time to time by the Baltimore Police Department or a non-profit organization for the successful apprehension, arrest, and conviction of criminal suspects.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Limitations on use.">The  Supplementary Criminal Apprehension and Conviction Fund:<para num="(1)">shall only be used to supplement rewards; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">may not be used to substitute for or replace existing funding for rewards provided by the Baltimore Police Department or any non-profit organizations as described in &lt;cite data-path="I|§17|(a)"&gt;subsection (a) of this section&lt;/cite&gt;.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Revenue sources.">The fund established under &lt;cite data-path="I|§17"&gt;this section&lt;/cite&gt; may consist of:<para num="(1)">money appropriated to the fund in the annual Ordinance of Estimates; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">grants or donations made to the fund.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Continuing nature of fund.">Notwithstanding any other provision of this Charter, unspent portions of the fund established under &lt;cite data-path="I|§17"&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>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Implementation.">By Ordinance, the Mayor and City Council may provide for the oversight, governance, and administration of the fund described in &lt;cite data-path="I|§17"&gt;this section&lt;/cite&gt;.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Res. 22-001, ratified Nov. 8, 2022</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
