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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 43A-1 Definitions.">
  <section prefix="§" num="43A-1" heading="Definitions.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">In this subtitle, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Commissioner.">“Commissioner” means the Police Commissioner of Baltimore City or the Commissioner’s designee.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Neighborhood nuisance.">
      <para num="(1)">“Neighborhood nuisance” means any premises where, on 2 or more separate occasions within a 6-month period before the start of a proceeding under this subtitle, an owner or tenant of the premises engaged in acts or created or maintained conditions that:<para num="(i)">significantly affected neighboring residents by being disorderly in manner; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">disturbed the peace of neighboring residents by:<para num="(A)">making an unreasonably loud noise ; or</para>
          <para num="(B)">the unreasonable use of profanity, cursing, or swearing.</para>
        </para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)">The 2&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt;  report by a police officer, written in the regular course of business, of behavior or action of the type described in paragraph (1) of this subsection is prima facie evidence that a neighborhood nuisance has occurred.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Operator.">“Operator” means any person who has charge, care, or control of a premises or structure.</para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Owner.">“Owner” means the person in whose name a premises is recorded in the Land Records of Baltimore City.</para>
    <para num="(f)" heading="Premises.">“Premises” means all or any part of any land, building, or other structure.</para>
    <para num="(g)" heading="Tenant.">
      <para num="(1)">“Tenant” means a lessee or any person occupying property, whether or not a party to a lease.</para>
      <para num="(2)">“Tenant” includes a lessee or a person occupying a mobile home, whether or not a party to a lease.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 07-532</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-125</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
