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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 16-1 Definitions.">
  <section prefix="§" num="16-1" heading="Definitions.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">In this subtitle, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Community Relations Commission; Commission.">“Community Relations Commission” or “Commission” means the Baltimore Community Relations Commission established by City Code &lt;cite data-path="|4"&gt;Article 4 {“Community Relations”}&lt;/cite&gt;, Subtitle 2 {“Community Relations Commission”}.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Employee.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Employee” means, except as otherwise provided in this subsection, any individual who works in Baltimore City for an employer.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Exclusions.">“Employee” does not include:<para num="(i)">an individual engaged in the activities of an educational, charitable, religious, or other nonprofit organization where the services rendered to that organization are on a voluntary basis or in return for charitable aid conferred on the individual;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">an individual who is employed by his or her parent, spouse, or child; or</para>
        <para num="(iii)">an individual who is employed as a domestic within a private residence.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Employer.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Employer” means, except as otherwise provided in this subsection, any person who employs 2 or more full-time equivalent employees working in the City of Baltimore.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Exclusions.">“Employer” does not include the federal government, the State government, or any instrumentality or unit of either.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Lactation accommodation.">“Lactation accommodation” means both lactation break and lactation location.</para>
    <para num="(f)" heading="Lactation break.">“Lactation break” means the break time that an employer is required by this subtitle to provide an employee for purposes of expressing breast milk.</para>
    <para num="(g)" heading="Lactation location.">“Lactation location” means the space, room, or location that an employer is required by this subtitle to provide an employee for purposes of expressing breast milk.</para>
    <para num="(h)" heading="Person.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Person” has the meaning stated in &lt;cite data-path="|general|1|1|1-107|(a)"&gt;§ 1-107(a) {“Person: In general”}&lt;/cite&gt; of the City Code’s &lt;cite data-path="|general"&gt;General Provisions Article&lt;/cite&gt;.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Qualified inclusion of City governmental units.">Notwithstanding &lt;cite data-path="|general|1|1|1-107|(b)"&gt;§ 1-107(b) {“Person: Exclusion”}&lt;/cite&gt; of the &lt;cite data-path="|general"&gt;General Provisions Article&lt;/cite&gt;, in this subtitle “person” also includes, except as used in &lt;cite data-path="|11|§16-30"&gt;§ 16-30 {“Criminal penalties”} of this subtitle&lt;/cite&gt;, any department, board, commission, council, authority, committee, office, or other unit of City government.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 18-213</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-125</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
