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<baltimore-city-law heading="Subtitle 19 – Grading and Paving Permits">
  <section prefix="§" num="19-1" heading="Requirements for grading or paving.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to do any grading, paving, or repaving of any public street, lane, or alley, or of any private street, lane, or alley used or intended to be used by the public:<para num="(1)">without first obtaining from the Director of Transportation a permit for that work;</para>
      <para num="(2)">without conforming to the construction requirements of the Director of Transportation for these streets, lanes, and alleys; or</para>
      <para num="(3)">without conforming to the true lines and established grades of such streets, lanes, and alleys.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Intent.">Noncompliance with any 1 of the 3 requirements described in subsection (a) of this section constitutes a violation of this section.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1950, art. 35, §21</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 26, §43</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 26, §47</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 49-580</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 76-139</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-435</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="19-2" heading="Director’s powers.">
    <text>The Director of Transportation is authorized and empowered:</text>
    <para num="(1)">to refuse to issue a permit for any grading, paving. or repaving that, if done or constructed as proposed, would menace the public safety, security, or health;</para>
    <para num="(2)">to require that all grading, paving, and repaving work conform to the true lines and established grades of the streets, lanes, and alleys; and</para>
    <para num="(3)">to require that all grading, paving, and repaving work shall be done under the Director’s supervision and in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the Director.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1950, art. 35, §22</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 26, §44</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 26, §48</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 49-580</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 76-139</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-435</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="19-3" heading="Considerations.">
    <text>In determining whether any proposed grading, paving, or repaving would menace the public safety, security, or health and in approving or disapproving plans and specifications, the Director of Transportation shall consider the following:</text>
    <para num="(1)">the plans and specifications for the proposed work;</para>
    <para num="(2)">the traffic of all kinds that may be reasonably expected on the streets, lanes, and alleys;</para>
    <para num="(3)">current practice in such grading, paving, and repaving work;</para>
    <para num="(4)">experience with grading, paving, and repaving theretofore done and installed;</para>
    <para num="(5)">the probable life of the proposed paving or repaving;</para>
    <para num="(6)">the estimated cost of the grading, paving or repaving;</para>
    <para num="(7)">the cost of maintenance of any such paving or repaving;</para>
    <para num="(8)">whether proper and adequate drainage is existing or will be provided;</para>
    <para num="(9)">what utilities are to be installed before any paving or repaving is to be done;</para>
    <para num="(10)">whether the proposed grading, paving, or repaving conforms to the true lines and established grades of the streets, lanes, or alleys involved;</para>
    <para num="(11)">any risks, hazards, and dangers to the traveling public which may be involved in the proposed grading, paving, or repaving, or any failure or inadequacy thereof; and</para>
    <para num="(12)">the probability of any of the private streets, lanes, and alleys becoming public highways in the future by operation of law or otherwise.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1950, art. 35, §23</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 26, §45</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 26, §49</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 49-580</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 76-139</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-435</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="19-4" heading="Paving procedures.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Per Director’s requirements.">All grading, paving, and repaving work shall be done in accordance with the requirements of the Director of Transportation as to construction, line, and grade.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Stop work.">The Director of Transportation is further authorized and empowered:<para num="(1)">to stop, at any time or times, any grading, paving, or repaving work that:<para num="(i)">is being done without a permit from the Director; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">is not being done in accordance with the Director’s requirements as to construction, line, or grade; and</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)">to continue the work stoppage until the nonconformities are corrected by and at the cost and expense of the person, firm, or corporation for whom the work is being done or constructed.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Failure to correct.">If the nonconformities are not corrected within a reasonable time or, in the judgment of the Director of Transportation, the work actually done has created conditions that menace the public safety, security, or health in the use of the streets, lanes, or alleys as thoroughfares, then the Director of Transportation is authorized and empowered to do any and all work, acts, and things that, in the Director’s judgment, are necessary to eliminate the menace to the public safety, security, or health at the cost and expense of the person, firm, or corporation creating the conditions, which cost and expense shall be a lien on the abutting property of that person, firm, or corporation, until paid.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1950, art. 35, §24</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 26, §46</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 26, §50</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 49-580</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 76-139</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-435</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="19-5" heading="Public Works sole authority.">
    <text>No approval of any application nor the issuance of any permit by any municipal officer, department, bureau, or agency other than the Director of Transportation may be construed to authorize the doing of any of the grading, paving, or repaving work described in this subtitle or to relieve any person, firm, or corporation from compliance with the provisions of this subtitle.</text>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1950, art. 35, §25</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 26, §47</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 26, §51</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 49-580</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 76-139</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-435</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="19-6" reserved="true" />
  <section prefix="§" num="19-7" heading="Penalties.">
    <text>Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions of this subtitle or any order or requirement of the Director of Transportation under this subtitle is guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, is subject to a fine of $50 for each offense and a like sum of $50 for each and every day the violation continues.</text>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1950, art. 35, §26</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 26, §48</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 26, §52</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 49-580</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 76-139</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-435</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
