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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 15-11 Complaint to Community Relations Commission.">
  <section prefix="§" num="15-11" heading="Complaint to Community Relations Commission.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Complaint authorized.">
      <para num="(1)">Any person aggrieved by an alleged violation of this subtitle may file a complaint with the Baltimore Community Relations Commission.</para>
      <para num="(2)">The complaint shall be filed, investigated, and heard in the same manner as that provided in City Code &lt;cite data-path="|4"&gt;Article 4 {“Community Relations”}&lt;/cite&gt;, Subtitle 4 {“Enforcement”}, for alleged violations of that article’s unlawful discriminatory employment practices.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Decision and order.">In its decision and order, the Commission may award the aggrieved person:<para num="(1)">back pay for lost wages caused by the violation of this subtitle;</para>
      <para num="(2)">reinstatement;</para>
      <para num="(3)">compensatory damages, which may include:<para num="(i)">compensation for humiliation, embarrassment, and emotional distress; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">expenses incurred in seeking other employment; and</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(4)">reasonable attorney’s fees.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 14-221</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
