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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 2-2 Required elements and factors.">
  <section prefix="§" num="2-2" heading="Required elements and factors.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Elements of plan.">The plan must include, but need not be limited to:<para num="(1)">specific recommendations for equipment, personnel, and locations for the Department’s fire suppression companies and units, emergency medical care companies and units, and truck companies and units for the next fiscal year;</para>
      <para num="(2)">proposed future consolidations, relocations, or reductions of fire suppression companies and units, emergency medical care companies and units, and truck companies and units; and</para>
      <para num="(3)">the criteria used used to determine whether a fire suppression company or unit, emergency medical care company or unit, or truck company or unit should be consolidated, relocated, or closed.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Factors on which plan to be based.">The plan must be based on the following factors:<para num="(1)">population density;</para>
      <para num="(2)">street and traffic patterns;</para>
      <para num="(3)">geological and topographic considerations;</para>
      <para num="(4)">modernization of equipment;</para>
      <para num="(5)">types and uses of structures;</para>
      <para num="(6)">financial considerations;</para>
      <para num="(7)">the presence of any hazardous materials; and</para>
      <para num="(8)">any other factors the Chief determines to be connected with fire protection and emergency medical service.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 9, §8A(a)(2nd sen.), (b)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 89-261</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 12-063</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
