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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 1-307 “Government facility” to “Industrial boat repair”.">
  <section prefix="§" num="1-307" heading="“Government facility” to “Industrial boat repair”.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Government facility.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Government facility” means a structure or land that is operated by a government agency.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Inclusions.">“Government facility” includes agency offices, storage yards, public works facilities, recreation: indoor, and utility facilities that are operated by a government agency.</para>
      <para num="(3)" heading="Exclusion.">“Government facility” does not include a private detention center.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Greenhouse.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">&lt;strong&gt;“&lt;/strong&gt;Greenhouse” means a structure that is:<para num="(i)">devoted to the protection or cultivation of flowers or other tender plants; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">constructed chiefly of glass, glass-like or translucent material, cloth, or lath.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="By any other name.">“Greenhouse” includes a “high tunnel”, “hoop-house”, “cold-frame”, or similar structure.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Gross floor area.">&lt;em&gt;See&lt;/em&gt; “Floor area: Gross”.</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Gym.">&lt;em&gt;See &lt;/em&gt;“Health and fitness center”&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;</para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Ham radio equipment.">&lt;em&gt;See &lt;/em&gt;“Amateur (ham) radio equipment”.</para>
    <para num="(f)" heading="Health-care clinic.">“Health-care clinic” means a facility for the examination and treatment of individuals on an outpatient basis by 1 or more physicians, dentists, chiropractors, physical therapists, or other licensed healthcare practitioners.</para>
    <para num="(g)" heading="Health and fitness center.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">&lt;strong&gt;“&lt;/strong&gt;Health and fitness center” means a gym or other facility that:<para num="(i)">is designed for physical fitness or weight reduction; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">contains equipment, such as weight resistance machines, treadmills, stationary bicycles, whirlpools, saunas, showers, and lockers, for that purpose.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Inclusions.">&lt;strong&gt;“&lt;/strong&gt;Health and fitness center” includes the following accessory uses designed and intended primarily for patrons of the facility:<para num="(i)">retail sales; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">a restaurant or refreshment stands.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(h)" heading="Heavy sales, rental, or service.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Heavy sales, rental, or service” means a sales, rental, or service establishment that maintains a service or storage area that is outdoors or in a structure that is only partially enclosed.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Inclusions.">“Heavy sales, rental, or service” includes:<para num="(i)">large-scale home improvement centers;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">industrial supply stores;</para>
        <para num="(iii)">lumberyards;</para>
        <para num="(iv)">heavy equipment parts, sales and rental; and</para>
        <para num="(v)">playground equipment, sales and rental.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(i)" heading="Heliport.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">&lt;strong&gt;“&lt;/strong&gt;Heliport” means a designated landing area for discharging or picking up passengers or goods by helicopter or similar vertical-lift aircraft.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Inclusions.">“Heliport” includes terminal facilities for passengers, goods, aircraft servicing, or storage.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(j)" heading="Helistop.">“Helistop” means an area of land, water, or structure that is used or intended to be used for the landing and take-off of helicopters or similar vertical-lift aircraft, but without facilities for servicing or basing these aircraft.</para>
    <para num="(k)" heading="Holiday sales lot.">&lt;em&gt;See&lt;/em&gt; “Seasonal or holiday sales lot”.</para>
    <para num="(l)" heading="Home occupation.">“Home occupation” means an occupation that:<para num="(1)">is carried on in a dwelling unit by a resident of the dwelling unit; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">is secondary to the use of the dwelling unit for residential purposes.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(m)" heading="Homeless shelter.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Homeless shelter” means a facility that provides temporary housing to homeless or transient individuals.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Inclusions.">“Homeless shelter” includes accessory services such as counseling or vocational training.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(n)" heading="Horse stable.">“Horse stable” means any structure or land within the City at or from which horses are boarded, bred, sold, or rented for riding, driving, or other purposes.</para>
    <para num="(o)" heading="Hospital.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Hospital” means an institution that provides health services, primarily inpatient medical or surgical care for the sick or injured.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Inclusions.">“Hospital” includes related facilities integral to the hospital, such as laboratories, outpatient centers, health-care clinics, helistops, training facilities, classrooms, staff offices, on-site medical waste and storage facilities, and central service facilities.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(p)" heading="Hotel; Motel.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="“Guest unit” defined.">In this section, “guest unit” means any room or group of rooms that forms a single habitable unit occupied or designed or intended to be occupied for sleeping or living purposes.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="In general.">“Hotel” or “motel” means a building that:<para num="(i)">is not a dwelling;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">contains 3 or more guest units occupied or designed or intended to be occupied by guests who, even though they might share common areas and facilities, do not form a single housekeeping unit and do not provide compensation under a single lease for occupancy of the facility; and</para>
        <para num="(iii)">offers lodging in these guest units to members of the general public.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(3)" heading="Exclusions.">“Hotel” or “motel” does not include a bed and breakfast or a rooming house.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(q)" heading="Housing Commissioner; Commissioner of Housing.">“Housing Commissioner” or “Commissioner of Housing” means the Commissioner of Housing and Community Development or the Commissioner’s designee.</para>
    <para num="(r)" heading="Impervious surface.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Impervious surface” means any surface that does not allow stormwater to infiltrate into the ground.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Inclusions.">“Impervious surface” includes rooftops, driveways, sidewalks, and pavement.</para>
      <para num="(3)" heading="Exclusions.">“Impervious surface” does not include ballasted railroad tracks.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(s)" heading="Incinerator.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Incinerator” means a combustion unit that uses controlled flame combustion for the thermal destruction of solid waste, including municipal waste, industrial waste, hazardous waste, special medical waste, or sewage sludge.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Inclusions.">“Incinerator” includes any:<para num="(1)">infrared incinerator; or</para>
        <para num="(2)">plasma arc incinerator.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(t)" heading="Indoor entertainment.">&lt;em&gt;See&lt;/em&gt; “Entertainment: Indoor”.</para>
    <para num="(u)" heading="Indoor recreation.">&lt;em&gt;See &lt;/em&gt;“Recreation: Indoor”.</para>
    <para num="(v)" heading="Industrial arts studio.">&lt;em&gt;See &lt;/em&gt;“Arts studio: Industrial”.</para>
    <para num="(w)" heading="Industrial boat repair facility.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Industrial boat repair facility” means a facility with 5 or more slips (wet or dry) used solely for the manufacture, assembly, or repair of commercial or recreational watercraft.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Exclusions.">“Industrial boat repair facility” does not include docking, storage, or sales of recreational watercraft.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-581</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 17-015</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 18-171</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-181</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
    <annotation type="History" />
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</baltimore-city-law>
