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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 7-1 Compliance required.">
  <section prefix="§" num="7-1" heading="Compliance required.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">No structure or other development may be located, erected, constructed, reconstructed, improved, repaired, extended, converted, enlarged, or altered except in full compliance with this Division I and all other applicable Federal, State, and City laws, rules, and regulations.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Noncompliance presumed without documentation.">A structure or other development without the required design certifications, elevation certificates, or other evidence of compliance is presumed to be noncompliant with and in violation of this Division I until the required documentation is provided.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Noncompliant structures as public nuisance.">Any structure or other development that is located, erected, constructed, reconstructed, improved, repaired, extended, converted, enlarged, or altered in violation of this Division I or of any other applicable Federal, State, and City law, rule, or regulation is declared to be a public nuisance and abatable as such.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 7, §8 (3rd par.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">2000, art. 7, §7-1</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 88-188</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 11-516</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 14-208</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 14-307</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
