In this subtitle, the following terms have the meanings indicated. “Covered employer” means any person that employs 5 or more full-time equivalent employees in the City of Baltimore. “Human trafficking” means:sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform a commercial sex act has not attained 18 years of age; or the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. Ord. 15-359 Ord. 16-503 Ord. 22-125 For the Code-wide standard definition of “person”, see <cite data-path="|general">City General Provisions Article</cite>, <cite data-path="|general|1|1|1-107">§ 1-107</cite>.

A covered employer may not take or refuse to take a personnel action or otherwise retaliate or discriminate against any person as a reprisal for the person’s having made a good-faith report of a suspected act of human trafficking to that person’s employer or any appropriate agency. Ord. 15-359

Any person who violates any provision of this subtitle is guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, is subject to a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment for not more than 90 days or both fine and imprisonment for each offense. Ord. 15-359