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<baltimore-city-law heading="Subtitle 4 – Designation of Landmarks">
  <section prefix="§" num="4-1" heading="List components.">
    <text>The Landmark List consists of two components:</text>
    <para num="(1)">a Landmark List: Exteriors; and</para>
    <para num="(2)">a Landmark List: Public Interiors.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-408</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="4-2" heading="Ordinance required.">
    <text>An ordinance of the Mayor and City Council is required to:</text>
    <para num="(1)">add a structure and its appurtenant property to the Landmark List: Exteriors or the Landmark List: Public Interiors; or</para>
    <para num="(2)">for a structure already on the Landmark List: Exteriors, to modify the boundaries of the appurtenant land or other property that is included in the Landmark designation.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §40(l)(3)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">2000, Art. 6, §3-2(d)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 67-939</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-547</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 07-550</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-408</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="4-3" heading="Criteria for designation.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Landmark List: Exteriors.">
      <para num="(1)">The Landmark List: Exteriors comprises those structures that, in accordance with the Commission’s Historic Preservation Procedures and Guidelines, are considered to be of such special historical or architectural significance that, even if not located within an Historical and Architectural Preservation District, those structures and their exteriors (with or without, as the case may be, their appurtenant land and other property) should be extended the same protections as apply to structures within a District.</para>
      <para num="(2)">The boundaries of a structure on the Landmark List: Exteriors are as indicated by Ordinance, as follows:<para num="(i)">by street address, which indicates that all appurtenant land or other property at that street address and on the same lot is included in and protected by the Landmark designation;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">by Section, Block, and Lot Number, which indicates that all land or other property on that lot is included in the Landmark designation; or</para>
        <para num="(iii)">by a metes and bounds description or other clear delineation, which indicates that less than all land or other property at a street address or on a lot is included in the Landmark designation.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Landmark List: Public Interiors.">The Landmark List: Public Interiors comprises those structures with public interiors that, in accordance with the Commission’s Historic Preservation Procedures and Guidelines, are considered to be of such special historical or architectural significance that, even if not within an Historical and Architectural Preservation District, those interiors should be extended the same protections as apply to the exteriors of structures within a District.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §40(k)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">2000, Art. 6, §3-2(a)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 67-939</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 07-550</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-408</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="4-4" reserved="true" />
  <section prefix="§" num="4-5" heading="Council action – Agency referrals.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Required referrals.">On introduction of any proposed ordinance to add a structure to the Landmark List: Exteriors or Landmark List: Public Interiors or to modify the boundaries of a structure on the Landmark List: Exteriors, the City Council must refer the bill to the following for their written reports and recommendations:<para num="(1)">the Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation;</para>
      <para num="(2)">the Planning Commission; and</para>
      <para num="(3)">any other agency that the Council President designates.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Reports, etc., prerequisite to second reading.">The City Council may not place the bill on the Council’s second reading calendar until the Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation and the Planning Commission:<para num="(1)">submit their reports and recommendations to the Council; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">fail to do so within 100 days of the referral.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-408</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="4-6" heading="Council action – Public notice and hearing.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Hearing required.">The City Council may not place the bill on its second reading calendar until the Council committee to which the bill is assigned has conducted a public hearing at which parties in interest and the general public are afforded an opportunity to be heard on the bill.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Notice required.">Notice of the hearing must be given as follows:<para num="(1)">by posting in a conspicuous place on the subject property; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">by first-class mail to each person who appears on the tax records of the City as an owner of the subject property.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Contents of notice.">The notice must include:<para num="(1)">the identifying number of the bill to be heard;</para>
      <para num="(2)">the name and address of the person requesting the bill;</para>
      <para num="(3)">the date, time, place, and purpose of the public hearing; and</para>
      <para num="(4)">the address of the subject property.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Timing of notice.">The notice must be posted and mailed at least 15 days before the public hearing.</para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Number and manner of posted notices.">The number of posted notices and the manner of their posting are as follows:<para num="(1)">at least 1 sign must be visible from each of the property’s street frontages;</para>
      <para num="(2)">each sign must be posted at a prominent location, near the sidewalk or public right-of-way, so that it is visible to passing pedestrians and motorists;</para>
      <para num="(3)">a window-mounted sign must be mounted inside the window glass and placed so that it is clearly visible to passing pedestrians and motorists; and</para>
      <para num="(4)">each sign must be at least 3 feet by 4 feet in size.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(f)" heading="Responsibility for notice.">The notices required by this section are the responsibility of the following:<para num="(1)">for a bill requested by the Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation, the notices must be given by and at the expense of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore;</para>
      <para num="(2)">for a bill requested by or on behalf of an owner of the subject property, the notices must be given by and at the expense of the requester; and</para>
      <para num="(3)">in all other cases, the notices must be given by and at the expense of the City Council.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §40(l)(2)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">2000, Art. 6, §3-2(c)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 67-939</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 76-022</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-547</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 07-550</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-408</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="4-7" heading="Council action – Disposition.">
    <text>Subject to the requirements of &lt;cite data-path="|6|§4-8"&gt;§ 4-8 {“Council action – Limitations”} of this subtitle&lt;/cite&gt;, the City Council may:</text>
    <para num="(1)">adopt, reject, or modify an ordinance proposed to add a structure to the Landmark List: Exteriors or the Landmark List: Public Interiors; and</para>
    <para num="(2)">as necessary or appropriate from time to time, adopt an ordinance to modify the boundaries of a structure on the Landmark List: Exteriors.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-408</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="4-8" 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 boundaries of a structure proposed by the Commission for addition to the Landmark List: Exteriors, as provided in &lt;cite data-path="|6|§4-3|(a)"&gt;§ 4-3(a) {“Landmark List: exteriors”} 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 proposal to add a structure to the Landmark List: Exteriors or the Landmark List: Public Interiors; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">any modification to the boundaries of a structure on the Landmark List Exteriors.</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 the Commission’s written report and recommendations.</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, the City Council may proceed to hear and consider the action, subject to the requirements of &lt;cite data-path="|6|§4-6"&gt;§ 4-6 {“Council action – Public notice and hearing”} of this subtitle&lt;/cite&gt;.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-408</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
