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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 45-2 Required sequence.">
  <section prefix="§" num="45-2" heading="Required sequence.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Definitions.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="Off-site.">“Off-site” means not on the same property as the activity which is proposed, is occurring, or which has occurred.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="On-site.">“On-site” means the area located within the legal boundary of the property on which the regulated activity is proposed, is occurring, or has occurred.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Sequence for reforestation, etc.">The required sequence for reforestation, afforestation, or specimen tree mitigation, after techniques for retaining existing forest on the site have been exhausted, is as follows:<para num="(1)">on-site reforestation, afforestation, and/or specimen tree mitigation, as specified in the Baltimore City Forest Conservation Manual;</para>
      <para num="(2)">off-site reforestation, afforestation, and/or specimen tree mitigation within the City shall be as specified for on-site reforestation or specimen tree mitigation;</para>
      <para num="(3)">use of appropriate credits generated by a forest mitigation bank in the City; and</para>
      <para num="(4)">payment into the City Forest Conservation Fund.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 9A, §1-1(n), (o) and §7-2</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 93-170</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 20-401</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
