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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 23-16 Required permit and authorizations.">
  <section prefix="§" num="23-16" heading="Required permit and authorizations.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Permit required.">Use of the conduit system for facility installations  is available only to persons to whom the Department has issued one or more permits that expressly authorize those facility installations.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Additional authorizations.">In addition to permits, the Department may require the person responsible for the installation to obtain other authorizations, including lease agreements, prior to any installation.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Unlawful to install without authorizations.">No person may install facilities in the conduit system without the permit and other authorizations required under this section.</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Removal of unauthorized installations.">
      <para num="(1)">The procedures in paragraph (2) of this subsection for the removal of an unauthorized installation are in addition to any other civil or criminal enforcement action or penalty authorized by Part 4 {“Civil and Criminal Penalties”} of this subtitle or otherwise authorized by law.</para>
      <para num="(2)">If an installation is determined to have been installed without the required permit or other authorizations:<para num="(i)">the Department shall notify the person responsible for the installation and order its removal;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">the person responsible for the installation shall remove the installation within 30 days of the notice; and</para>
        <para num="(iii)">if the installation is not removed within the required period:<para num="(i)">the Department may remove the installation; and</para>
          <para num="(ii)">the person responsible for the installation is liable to the Department for all expenses of the removal and of any consequent repairs needed to be made to the conduit.</para>
        </para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 19-263</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
