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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 26-4 Considerations for certification.">
  <section prefix="§" num="26-4" heading="Considerations for certification.">
    <text>To determine whether to certify an area as a “drug-free zone”, the Commissioner shall consider the following:</text>
    <para num="(1)">arrests or other statistical criteria for reporting crime accepted and relied upon by law enforcement agencies which indicate a disproportionately high occurrence of illegal drug possession or distribution activity in the proposed drug-free zone;</para>
    <para num="(2)">1 homicide or more than 1 instance of violent crime verified to have been related to the possession or distribution of illegal drugs committed within the previous 6-month period within the proposed drug-free zone;</para>
    <para num="(3)">reliable, objective, and verifiable information that indicates illegal drug activity is occurring in an area listed in § 26-1 herein or any other identifiable area legally accessible to the public;</para>
    <para num="(4)">any other verifiable information accepted by law enforcement agencies that indicates to the Commissioner that the health or safety of residents that live in or near the proposed drug-free zone are endangered by the possession or distribution of illegal drugs.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 19, §58C(e)(2)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 89-375</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 90-561A</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
