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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 7-10 Baseline City services.">
  <section prefix="§" num="7-10" heading="Baseline City services.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Agreement to maintain.">Before imposing and collecting the Supplemental Tax, the Authority shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Mayor regarding the level of services to be maintained by the City as the City’s partnership obligation to the Authority and the Distric’’s taxpayers.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Scope of agreement.">This memorandum shall:<para num="(1)">describe the existing levels of service within the District;</para>
      <para num="(2)">commit the City to the maintenance of such levels of service; and</para>
      <para num="(3)">outline the further undertakings of the City in response to the initiative represented by the creation of the District (the “Baseline Plus”).</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Governing principles.">The maintenance of existing services shall be governed by the  2 principles listed in this subsection (c).<para num="(1)">No decrease in such services shall occur except as part of an overall decrease in services necessitated by changes in funding, policy, or resources, and then only in proportion to the decreases implemented elsewhere in the City.</para>
      <para num="(2)">Any increase in such services generally throughout the City shall be matched with increases in such services within the District, in proportion to the increases implemented elsewhere in the City.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §266</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 95-613</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-432</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §267</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §268</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §269</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §270</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §271</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §272</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §273(a), (b)(1), (b)(3)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-435</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §273(b)(2), (c)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §273(d)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §273(e)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 04-672</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §273(f)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §274</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §275</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §276</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §277</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §278</annotation>
    <annotation type="Editor's Notes">By a series of enactments (the most recent being Resolution 20-017), the Mayor and City Council has continued the Authority and District through June 30, 2024.</annotation>
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  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
