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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 3-9 Council action – Limitations.">
  <section prefix="§" num="3-9" heading="Council action – Limitations.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Scope of section.">This section applies to any of the following actions by the City Council:<para num="(1)">any modification to the boundary lines set forth in an ordinance proposed by the Commission under &lt;cite data-path="|6|§3-3"&gt;§ 3-3 {“CHAP to prepare proposed ordinance and findings”} of this subtitle&lt;/cite&gt;; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">unless by and in accordance with an ordinance initiated at the request of the Commission under this subtitle:<para num="(i)">any initial designation of an area as:<para num="(i)">a Historical and Architectural Preservation District; or</para>
          <para num="(ii)">a Historical Conservation District; or</para>
        </para>
        <para num="(ii)">any modification to the boundary lines of an existing:<para num="(i)">Historical and Architectural Preservation District; or</para>
          <para num="(ii)">Historical Conservation District.</para>
        </para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Referral to CHAP.">The City Council may not take any action described in subsection (a) of this section without first referring that action to the Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation for:<para num="(1)">the Commission’s written report and recommendations; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">the Commission’s findings of fact affirming, at a minimum, that the proposed action will not adversely affect the District’s compliance with the requirements, standards, procedures, and guidelines specified in &lt;cite data-path="|6|§3-1|(b)"&gt;§ 3-1(b) {“Ordinance ... required: Findings of fact”} of this subtitle&lt;/cite&gt;.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Action by Council.">If, within 100 days of the referral, the Commission fails to submit its written report or recommendations, or fails or is unwilling to make the findings of fact required by &lt;cite data-path="|6|§3-1|(b)"&gt;§ 3-1(b) {“Ordinance ... required: Findings of fact”} of this subtitle&lt;/cite&gt;, the City Council:<para num="(1)">may proceed to hear and consider the action, subject to the requirements of § 3-6 {“Council action – Public notice and hearing”} and &lt;cite data-path="|6|§3-8"&gt;§ 3-8 {“Council action – Amendments”} of this subtitle&lt;/cite&gt;; but</para>
      <para num="(2)">may not adopt the action without preparing and adopting its own written findings of fact affirming that the action will not adversely affect the District’s compliance with the requirements, standards, procedures, and guidelines specified in &lt;cite data-path="|6|§3-1|(b)"&gt;§ 3-1(b) {“Ordinance ... required: Findings of fact”} of this subtitle&lt;/cite&gt;.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-408</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
