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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 10-1 Notice to property owners.">
  <section prefix="§" num="10-1" heading="Notice to property owners.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Scope.">This section applies whenever the Director of Transportation:<para num="(1)">finds that any footway, in whole or in part, of any paved street, lane, or alley of the City:<para num="(i)">is not properly graded and paved;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">is in bad repair;</para>
        <para num="(iii)">is otherwise in a defective condition; or</para>
        <para num="(iv)">is inconsistent with a streetscape plan approved in accordance with Subtitle 10A of &lt;cite data-doc="City of Balt., Md., Ord. 24-348" data-path="|26"&gt;this article&lt;/cite&gt;; and</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)">determines, in his or her judgment, that the footway:<para num="(i)">needs grading, paving, repaving, or repairing; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">otherwise needs to be brought into compliance with the approved streetscape plan.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Notice.">
      <para num="(1)">The Director must:<para num="(i)">provide each person whose property binds or abuts on the footway with a written notice of the Director’s intention to improve, grade, pave, repave, or repair it; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">give all persons whose property binds or abuts on the footway an opportunity 30 days after the date of notice to show cause, if any, why the footway should not be improved, graded, paved, repaved, or repaired.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)">If the owner of any property cannot be found by the Director of Transportation, the Director must cause the notice to be conspicuously posted on the premises.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Service alternatives.">
      <para num="(1)">The Director of Transportation must cause the notice provided for in this section to be given to the owner of each lot adjacent to which a footway is required to be improved, graded, paved, repaved, or repaired.</para>
      <para num="(2)">For this purpose, notice may be:<para num="(i)">left at any house on the lot;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">served personally on the owner or the owner’s tenant, agent, or guardian;</para>
        <para num="(iii)">left at the owner’s residence;</para>
        <para num="(iv)">published in 1 or more newspapers of the City; or</para>
        <para num="(v)">posted or set up on the premises.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(3)">Notice given in any of these ways suffices for the purposes of this section and §§ 11-1 and 17-4 of &lt;cite data-doc="City of Balt., Md., Ord. 24-348" data-path="|26"&gt;this article&lt;/cite&gt;.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1879, art. 47, §§50, 51</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1893, art. 48, §§51, 52</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1927, art. 45, §§68(1st, 2nd sens.), 69</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1950, art. 35, §§28(1st, 2nd sens.), 29</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 26, §§23(1st, 2nd sens.), 24</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 26, §§26(1st, 2nd sens.), 28</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Rev. Ords. 1858-013</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 12-102</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 21-573</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-711</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 48-319</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 76-139</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 00-010</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-435</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
    <annotation type="History" />
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
