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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 18-1 Definitions.">
  <section prefix="§" num="18-1" heading="Definitions.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">In this subtitle, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Affected employee.">“Affected employee” means a service employee performing work for an entity that is being, or has been, terminated as a service provider and is being replaced with a successor entity performing similar services at the same site.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Awarding authority.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Awarding authority” means any person that awards or enters into a service contract or subcontract with a contractor to be performed in the City.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Inclusion of City, other governmental units.">“Awarding authority” includes the City of Baltimore and any governmental unit, agency, or other entity as to which the City has the power to legislate.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Contractor.">“Contractor” means any person, including a subcontractor, that:<para num="(1)">enters into a service contract to perform work in the City; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">employs more than 20 employees.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Commission.">“Commission” means the Wage Commission established by &lt;cite data-path="|11|§2-1"&gt;§ 2-1 {“Commission established”} of this article&lt;/cite&gt;, or the Commission’s designee.</para>
    <para num="(f)" />
    <para num="(g)" heading="Service contract.">“Service contract” means a contract between an awarding authority and a contractor to provide security, janitorial, building maintenance, or food preparation in a facility located in the City that is used as a:<para num="(1)">private elementary or secondary school;</para>
      <para num="(2)">public or private college or university;</para>
      <para num="(3)">convention, sports, or entertainment institution, such as a museum, casino, convention center, arena, stadium, or music hall;</para>
      <para num="(4)">multi-family residential building or complex with more than 30 units;</para>
      <para num="(5)">commercial building or office building occupying more than 50,000 square feet;</para>
      <para num="(6)">industrial facility, such as a pharmaceutical laboratory, research and development facility, or product fabrication facility; or</para>
      <para num="(7)">distribution center.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(h)" heading="Service employee.">
      <para num="(1)">“Service employee” means an individual employed on a full-  or part-time basis as a:<para num="(i)">building service employee, including a janitor, security officer, groundskeeper, concierge, door staffer, maintenance technician, handyman, superintendent, elevator operator, window cleaner, or building engineer; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">food service worker, including a cafeteria attendant, line attendant, cook, butcher, baker, server, cashier, catering worker, dining attendant, dishwasher, or merchandise vendor.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)">“Service employee” does not include:<para num="(i)">a managerial or confidential employee; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">an employee who works in an executive, administrative, or professional capacity.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(i)" heading="Successor entity.">“Successor entity” means an entity that:<para num="(1)">is awarded a service contract to provide, in whole or in part, services that are substantially similar to those provided to the awarding authority at any time during the previous 90 days;</para>
      <para num="(2)">has purchased or acquired control of a property located in the City where service employees were employed at any time during the previous 90 days; or</para>
      <para num="(3)">terminates a service contract and, within 90 days of the termination, hires service employees as its direct employees to perform services that are substantially similar to those provided under the terminated service contract.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 17-028</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-125</annotation>
    <annotation type="Editor's Notes">For the Code-wide standard definition of “person”, see &lt;cite data-path="|general"&gt;City General Provisions Article&lt;/cite&gt;, &lt;cite data-path="|general|1|1|1-107"&gt;§ 1-107&lt;/cite&gt;.</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
