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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 27-3 Limitations on award.">
  <section prefix="§" num="27-3" heading="Limitations on award.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">Such sum as may be awarded:<para num="(1)">shall be granted by the Board of Estimates as a matter of grace and not as a matter of right; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">shall be such compensation as the Board in its judgment deems to be right and proper under the circumstances, subject to the following limitations.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Personal injury.">
      <para num="(1)">In the case of personal injury, the award shall be limited:<para num="(i)">to the injured person’s medical, hospital, and other such expenses; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">to his loss of net earning or take-home pay, if any, during the time he is unable to work as a direct result of such injuries.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)">If such person received workmen’s compensation or other insurance payments as a result of such injuries, the award shall be reduced by the amount of such payments.</para>
      <para num="(3)">If such person is unemployed and not receiving unemployment insurance at the time of such injuries, the Board in its discretion may award him a sum not exceeding $1,000.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Property damage.">In the case of property damage, the award shall be limited to the actual value of the property damaged.</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Death.">
      <para num="(1)">In the case of the death of such person, the award shall be to:<para num="(i)">the surviving spouse;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">dependent child or children under the age of 18;</para>
        <para num="(iii)">the person responsible for payment of funeral expenses of the deceased citizen;</para>
        <para num="(iv)">other dependents or relatives of such deceased citizen to whom he at the time of death was contributing at least 50% financial support; or</para>
        <para num="(v)">any combination of the above in the discretion of the Board.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)">Such award may be a lump sum payment in the discretion of the Board or in its discretion may be made in periodic payments not exceeding the amount of such person’s net or take-home wages, salary, or other earned income at the time of such occurrence, or the amount of the special death benefits payable upon the death of a beginning or 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; -year patrolman of the Baltimore City Police Department, as provided, and in the manner provided in &lt;cite data-path="|22|§34|(i)"&gt;Article 22, § 34(i)&lt;/cite&gt; of the City Code, whichever is less.</para>
      <para num="(3)">The Board shall retain continuing jurisdiction over each such case and may change the amount of the periodic payments or stop them altogether at any time, in its best judgment.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §140(c)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 67-1126</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
