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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 4-8 Registration fees.">
  <section prefix="§" num="4-8" heading="Registration fees.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Rooming houses.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="Base fee.">Except as otherwise specified in this section, an annual registration fee must be paid for rooming houses at the rate of $25 per rooming unit.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Increased fee.">For any rooming house that has had the term of its rental dwelling license reduced under § 5-9(c) or (d) {“Rental dwellings: Tiered license terms”} of &lt;cite data-path="|13"&gt;this article&lt;/cite&gt; to a 1-year term, the annual registration fee under paragraph (1) of this subsection for each succeeding registration year beginning after the start of each 1-year rental dwelling license term is increased by an additional $15 per rooming unit, which additional amount shall be deposited in the continuing, nonlapsing fund created by &lt;cite data-doc="City of Baltimore, Md., Charter" data-path="I|§14"&gt;City Charter Article I, § 14&lt;/cite&gt; {“Affordable Housing Trust Fund”}.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Non-owner-occupied dwelling units.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="Base fee.">Except as otherwise specified in this section, an annual registration fee must be paid for non-owner-occupied dwelling units at the following rates:

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                      &lt;p class="text-indent-3"&gt;(1) for properties with 1 and 2 dwelling units –&lt;/p&gt;
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                      &lt;p&gt;$30 per dwelling unit.&lt;/p&gt;
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                      &lt;p class="text-indent-3"&gt;(2) for multiple-family dwellings –&lt;/p&gt;
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                      &lt;p&gt;$35 per dwelling unit,&lt;br/&gt; plus $25 per rooming unit.&lt;/p&gt;
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            </para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Increased fee.">For any dwelling that has had the term of its rental dwelling license reduced under § 5-9(c) or (d) {“Rental dwellings: Tiered license terms”} of &lt;cite data-path="|13"&gt;this article&lt;/cite&gt; to a 1-year term, the annual registration fee under paragraph (1) of this subsection for each succeeding registration year beginning after the start of each 1-year rental dwelling license term is increased by an additional $15 per dwelling or rooming unit, which additional amount shall be deposited in the continuing, nonlapsing fund created by &lt;cite data-doc="City of Baltimore, Md., Charter" data-path="I|§14"&gt;City Charter Article I, § 14&lt;/cite&gt; {“Affordable Housing Trust Fund”}.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Vacant structures.">Except as otherwise specified in this section, an annual registration fee, in addition to any fee that might also be required by subsection (a) or (b) of this section, must be paid for vacant structures at the following rates:

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                    &lt;p class="text-indent-2"&gt;(1) for residential structures –&lt;/p&gt;
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                    &lt;p&gt;$100 per structure.&lt;/p&gt;
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                    &lt;p class="text-indent-2"&gt;(2) for all other structures –&lt;/p&gt;
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                    &lt;p&gt;$250 per structure.&lt;/p&gt;
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          </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="When payable.">These fees must all be paid at the time of registration.</para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Exceptions.">No fee is charged for:<para num="(1)">any dwelling unit, rooming house, or vacant structure that is owned by a governmental entity or an instrumentality or unit of a governmental entity; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">any dwelling unit that is not in a vacant structure and is owned by a nonprofit religious, charitable, or educational institution or organization.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 02-475</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 10-342</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 10-372</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 18-130</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 19-332</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
