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<baltimore-city-law heading="Subtitle 46 – Administration and Enforcement">
  <section prefix="§" num="46-1" heading="Standard license year; fees not prorated.">
    <text>Unless otherwise specified, wherever in &lt;cite data-path="|15"&gt;this article&lt;/cite&gt; or in any ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, an annual license fee is imposed, those provisions shall be construed to render the fee collectible in the 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; week of January in each and every year, and the entire charge prescribed for the entire year shall be collected when the license is issued.</text>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1927, art. 25, §62</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1950, art. 19, §73</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 16, §90</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 15, §108</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 27-1084</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 57-1147</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-526</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="46-2" heading="Interest and penalties for unpaid fees.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Imposition.">
      <para num="(1)">Except as where otherwise provided in &lt;cite data-path="|15"&gt;this article&lt;/cite&gt;, any person, firm, corporation, or other legal entity who, within 30 days from when it becomes due and payable, fails to pay any license or permit fee or any registration tax imposed by any provision of &lt;cite data-path="|15"&gt;this article&lt;/cite&gt;:<para num="(i)">is liable for interest on the amount of unpaid fee or tax at the rate of 1% per month or any fraction of a month during which the fee or tax remains unpaid; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">is also liable for a penalty of 10% of the unpaid fee or tax.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)">This interest and penalty shall be collected as a part of the fee or tax itself.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Waivers.">For good and sufficient cause shown, the Director of Finance may waive interest and penalty in connection with the payment of any fee or tax imposed by any provision of &lt;cite data-path="|15"&gt;this article&lt;/cite&gt;.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 15, §88(b), (c)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 74-761</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 84-017</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 10-337</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§§" num="46-3 to 46-10" reserved="true" />
  <section prefix="§" num="46-11" heading="Refusal, revocation of license.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Director of Finance.">Upon the approval of the Mayor, the Director of Finance shall have full power and authority to refuse to grant licenses under the provisions of &lt;cite data-doc="City of Balt., Md., Ord. 25-013" data-path="|15"&gt;the following subtitles of this article&lt;/cite&gt;, and also, when directed by the Mayor, shall have full power and authority to revoke any license granted by virtue of the following subtitles of &lt;cite data-doc="City of Balt., Md., Ord. 25-013" data-path="|15"&gt;this article&lt;/cite&gt;.<para num="(1)">Subtitle 10. Hotels; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">Subtitle 48. Short-Term Residential Rentals.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Director of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing.">Upon the approval of the Mayor, the Director of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing shall have full power and authority to refuse to grant licenses under the provisions of the following subtitles of this article, and also, when directed by the Mayor, shall have full power and authority to revoke any license granted by virtue of the following subtitles of this article:<para num="(1)">Subtitle 2. Amusements;</para>
      <para num="(2)">Subtitle 3. Amusement Device Location Permits;</para>
      <para num="(3)">Subtitle 6. Carriages, Wagons, Boats, and Scows;</para>
      <para num="(4)">Subtitle 7. Employment Agencies;</para>
      <para num="(5)">Subtitle 9. Late-Night Commercial Operations;</para>
      <para num="(6)">Subtitle 11. Massage Establishments;</para>
      <para num="(7)">Subtitle 12. Commercial Parking Facilities;</para>
      <para num="(8)">Subtitle 13. Special-Event Parking Lots;</para>
      <para num="(9)">Subtitle 15. Street Entertainers;</para>
      <para num="(10)">Subtitle 17. Street Vendors;</para>
      <para num="(11)">Subtitle 18. Itinerant Wholesale Produce Dealers;</para>
      <para num="(12)">Subtitle 20. Transient Merchants; and</para>
      <para num="(13)">Subtitle 22. Towing Services - Trespass Towing.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1879, art. 33, §17</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1893, art. 33, §17</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1927, art. 25, §17</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1950, art. 19, §19</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 15, §22</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 15, §22</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Rev. Ords. 1858-037</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-194</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 76-067</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="46-12" heading="Enforcement by Solicitor.">
    <text>Whenever the City Solicitor shall be notified of any violation of the provisions of &lt;cite data-path="|15"&gt;this article&lt;/cite&gt;, it shall be his duty immediately to institute legal proceedings against the offender or offenders to recover from him, her, or them, the penalty or penalties prescribed by &lt;cite data-path="|15"&gt;this article&lt;/cite&gt;.</text>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1879, art. 33, §18</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1893, art. 33, §18</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1927, art. 25, §18</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1950, art. 19, §20</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 15, §23</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 15, §23</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Rev. Ords. 1858-037</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
