# § 10-1 Definitions.

Current through 2026-07-17. Source: City of Balt., Md., Ord. 26-129. Published by the Baltimore City Department of Legislative Reference.

## § 10-1 Definitions.

Balt., Md., Code art. 15, § 10-1 (2026)

(a) In this subtitle, the following terms have the meanings indicated.

(b) “Hotel” means any building, including any motel, that:

  (1) contains sleeping accommodations for more than 5 persons; and

  (2) is open to the transient public.

(c) “Housing Department” or “Department” means the City Department of Housing and Community Development.

(d) “Human trafficking” means:

  (1) 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

  (2) 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.

(e)

*History: Ord. 15-353*

*History: Ord. 16-503*

*History: Ord. 19-332*

*History: Ord. 22-125*