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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 1-208 Uses – generic, specific, and prohibited.">
  <section prefix="§" num="1-208" heading="Uses – generic, specific, and prohibited.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Generic uses described.">Certain uses in this Code are defined to be inclusive of many specific uses so as to minimize overly detailed lists of uses for the various zoning districts established by this Code.  These inclusive uses are referred to in this Code as “generic uses”.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Relationship of generic to specific.">
      <para num="(1)">If a specific use is listed in any use table, that specific use cannot be interpreted as falling within any generic use that is listed in the same table.</para>
      <para num="(2)">If the definition of a generic use specifically excludes a specific use, the generic use cannot be interpreted as allowing that specific use.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Uses prohibited if not listed.">A use is prohibited in a zoning district unless:<para num="(1)">that use is specifically listed as a permitted or conditional use in the use table for that district; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">that use falls within the definition of a generic use that is itself listed as a permitted or conditional use in the use table for that district.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-581</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 18-171</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-125</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
