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<baltimore-city-law heading="Subtitle 16 – Records and Inventory of Real Property">
  <section prefix="§" num="16-1" heading="Record of conveyances and contracts.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Comptroller to maintain publicly accessible online database.">The Comptroller shall maintain a publicly accessible online database that includes:<para num="(1)">all deeds and leases made to the City, or sufficient extracts from those deeds and leases to fully identity the nature of the City’s interest in the specific property; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">all contracts and agreements made in relation to the property of the City.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Searchable index.">The database required by this section shall be searchable for easy reference to the deeds, leases, contracts, and agreements within the database.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1879, art. 1, §57</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1893, art. 1, §64</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1927, art. 1, §85</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1950, art. 1, §24</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 1, §92</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 1, §95</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 1858-009</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 21-032</annotation>
    <annotation type="Editor's Notes">This section was amended by Ordinance 21-032, effective January 10, 2022, to require that the record of all property conveyances to the City and of all contracts and agreements made in relation to City property be maintained in a publicly accessible online database (rather than, as has long been the practice, in a “well-bound record book”).</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="16-2" heading="Comprehensive inventory required.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Comptroller and Director of Finance to maintain.">The Comptroller and the Director of Finance must maintain jointly a comprehensive inventory of City-owned real property, which must be updated quarterly to reflect acquisitions and dispositions.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Information required.">For each parcel of property, the inventory must provide the following information:<para num="(1)">a street address or, if there is no street address, a description sufficient to identify the location of the property;</para>
      <para num="(2)">the date when the City acquired or took possession of the property;</para>
      <para num="(3)">the purchase price paid by the City;</para>
      <para num="(4)">the name of the grantor; and</para>
      <para num="(5)">an estimate of the market value of the property, which must be updated every 3 years.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Agencies to cooperate.">All City agencies that own, acquire, or dispose of real property must comply with requests of the Comptroller and the Director of Finance in maintaining the inventory.</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Inventory open to public inspection.">The inventory must be posted online for public inspection.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 5, §2A</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 97-144</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 21-032</annotation>
    <annotation type="Editor's Notes">Subsection (d) was amended by Ordinance 21-032, effective January 10, 2022, to require posting the inventory online (rather than, as has been the practice, “kept in the office of the Comptroller” and only open for public inspection “during regular office business hours”). Cf.  Editor’s Note to the preceding § 16-1.</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
