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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 10-1 Definitions.">
  <section prefix="§" num="10-1" heading="Definitions.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">In this subtitle, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Hotel.">“Hotel” means any building, including any motel, that:<para num="(1)">contains sleeping accommodations for more than 5 persons; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">is open to the transient public.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Housing Department; Department.">“Housing Department” or “Department” means the City Department of Housing and Community Development.</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Human trafficking.">“Human trafficking” means:<para num="(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</para>
      <para num="(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.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(e)" />
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-353</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-503</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 19-332</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>
