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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 40-7 Environmental Citations.">
  <section prefix="§" num="40-7" heading="Environmental Citations.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Board to prescribe.">The Board must prescribe the form and wording of environmental citations.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Required contents.">In addition to any other matters that the Board prescribes, an environmental citation must include:<para num="(1)">the name, if known, of the person cited;</para>
      <para num="(2)">the violation with which the person is cited, including a reference to the specific law in question;</para>
      <para num="(3)">the manner and time in which the person must either:<para num="(i)">pay the prepayable fine prescribed for the violation; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">request a hearing on the violation;</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(4)">the time within which the violation, if ongoing, must be abated; and</para>
      <para num="(5)">a notice that failure to act in the manner and time stated in the citation may result in a default decision and order entered against the person.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Service of citations.">An environmental citation must be:<para num="(1)">issued by a Code Enforcement Officer; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">served on the person cited by 1 of the following methods:<para num="(i)">in person;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">certified mail, return receipt requested;</para>
        <para num="(iii)">delivery to a person of suitable age and discretion who resides at the cited person’s last known address; or</para>
        <para num="(iv)">for service on an occupant of the premises at which the violation occurred:<para num="(A)">posting on the main entrance of the premises; and</para>
          <para num="(B)">mailing by regular mail to the person cited, at that person’s last known address.</para>
        </para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Tenor of citation.">When issued and served, the citation or a copy of it:<para num="(1)">constitutes full and complete notice of the violation cited in it;</para>
      <para num="(2)">if abatement is ordered, constitutes a full and complete notice of the order of abatement; and</para>
      <para num="(3)">if sworn to or affirmed, is prima facie evidence of the facts contained in it.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Single document permissible.">A single document may be used to issue two or more separately numbered citations.</para>
    <para num="(f)" heading="Electronic signature.">An electronic signature may be used to execute a citation and to serve as an affirmation, under penalties of perjury, that the facts stated in the citation are true.</para>
    <para num="(g)" heading="Record of citation to be kept.">The original or a copy of the citation must be filed and retained in the records of the Board.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §301</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 98-326</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 02-362</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 07-425</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 12-084</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-503</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
