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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 5-15 Denial, suspension, or revocation of license – In general.">
  <section prefix="§" num="5-15" heading="Denial, suspension, or revocation of license – In general.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="“Nuisance property” defined.">In this section, “nuisance property” means any property that is maintained or operated so as to cause or allow a nuisance of the sort described in any 1 or another of the following definitions:<para num="(1)">State Code &lt;cite data-doc="Md. Code" data-path="grp|14-120"&gt;Real Property Article, § 14-120(a)(5) &lt;/cite&gt;{defining “nuisance”};</para>
      <para num="(2)">City Code &lt;cite data-path="|19|§43-1|(l)"&gt;Article 19, § 43-1(l) {defining “public nuisance”}&lt;/cite&gt;;</para>
      <para num="(3)">City Code &lt;cite data-path="|19|§43B-1|(b)"&gt;Article 19, § 43B-1(b) {defining “neighborhood nuisance”}&lt;/cite&gt;; and</para>
      <para num="(4)">City Code &lt;cite data-path="|19|§43B-1|(o)"&gt;Article 19, § 43B-1(o) {defining ”unruly social event”}&lt;/cite&gt;.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Causes for denial, suspension, or revocation.">Subject to the hearing provisions of &lt;cite data-path="13|§5-16"&gt;§ 5-16&lt;/cite&gt; of this subtitle, the Housing Commissioner may deny, suspend, or revoke a rental dwelling license or renewal license for any of the following causes:<para num="(1)">making any material false statement in an application for an initial or renewal license;</para>
      <para num="(2)">fraudulently or deceptively obtaining a rental dwelling license for oneself or for another;</para>
      <para num="(3)">fraudulently or deceptively using a rental dwelling license;</para>
      <para num="(4)">falsifying any inspection report or certificate;</para>
      <para num="(5)">refusal by a record owner or operator of a rental dwelling to allow the Commissioner to conduct a routine, spot, quality-control, proactive, or other inspection of the rental dwelling as authorized by this subtitle or the &lt;cite data-path="|codes"&gt;City Building, Fire, and Related Codes Article&lt;/cite&gt;;</para>
      <para num="(6)">failing to abate within 120 days of issuance any violation notice, order, or citation for violating any provision of the &lt;cite data-path="|codes"&gt;City Building, Fire, and Related Codes Article&lt;/cite&gt;, the City Health Article, or the Zoning Code of Baltimore City;</para>
      <para num="(7)">failing to abate any violation notice issued during a priority inspection within the time required;</para>
      <para num="(8)">failing to comply with any provision of this subtitle or of any rule or regulation adopted under this subtitle; or</para>
      <para num="(9)">if the Housing Commissioner finds, or if the Fire Chief, Health Commissioner, or Police Commissioner certify to the Housing Commissioner, that:<para num="(i)">the record owner, operator, or lessee of a rental dwelling has failed to comply with any lawful notice, order, or citation to correct a violation that affects the health, safety, morals, or general welfare of the occupants of the property or of the general public; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">the record owner, operator, or lessee of a rental dwelling, or any agent of the owner or lessee:<para num="(A)">has allowed the premises to be used as a nuisance property; or</para>
          <para num="(B)">knew or should have known that the premises were being used as a nuisance property and failed to prevent them from being so used.</para>
        </para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 02-475</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 18-130</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
    <annotation type="History" />
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</baltimore-city-law>
