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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 23-3 Prohibited conduct.">
  <section prefix="§" num="23-3" heading="Prohibited conduct.">
    <text>A person may not:</text>
    <para num="(1)">vandalize religious property that is owned, leased, or used by any religious entity;</para>
    <para num="(2)">obstruct, or attempt to obstruct by force or threat of force, a person in the free exercise of that person’s religious beliefs;</para>
    <para num="(3)">harass or commit a crime on a person or damage the property of a person because of that person’s race, color, religious beliefs, national origin, or sexual orientation;</para>
    <para num="(4)">harass or commit a crime on an institution or damage the property of an institution:<para num="(i)">because of the institution’s contacts or association with a person or group of a particular race, color, religious beliefs, national origin, or sexual orientation; or</para>
      <para num="(ii)">where there is evidence that exhibits animosity on the part of the person committing the act against a person or group because of that person’s or group’s race, color, religious beliefs, national origin, or sexual orientation;</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(5)">vandalize or burn or attempt to burn any object on the property of a person because of that person’s race, color, religious beliefs, national origin, or sexual orientation;</para>
    <para num="(6)">vandalize or burn or attempt to burn any object on the property of an institution:<para num="(i)">because of the institution’s contacts or association with a person or group of a particular race, color, religious beliefs, national origin, or sexual orientation; or</para>
      <para num="(ii)">where there is evidence that exhibits animosity on the part of the person committing the act against a person or group because of that person’s or group’s race, color, religious beliefs, national origin, or sexual orientation.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 19, §254</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 98-380</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
