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<baltimore-city-law heading="Subtitle 2 – Cooperation with Department">
  <container prefix="Part" num="I" heading="Physicians; Police">
    <section prefix="§" num="2-201" heading="Physicians to report and assist.">
      <text>On notice from the Commissioner, any practicing physician in the City must provide information, advice, and assistance to the Commissioner in all matters that relate to the preservation of the health of the people and the prevention of communicable diseases.</text>
      <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §1(last cl.)</annotation>
      <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
    </section>
    <section prefix="§" num="2-202" heading="Police to execute orders.">
      <text>Baltimore City Police Officers are directed to execute all orders of the Commissioner that relate to the preservation of the health in the City.</text>
      <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §4</annotation>
      <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
    </section>
    <section prefix="§§" num="2-203 to 2-204" reserved="true" />
  </container>
  <container prefix="Part" num="II" heading="Prohibited Conduct">
    <section prefix="§" num="2-205" heading="Obstructing, etc., Departmental personnel.">
      <text>No person may knowingly obstruct, resist, or interfere with the Commissioner or any officer or employee of the Department while carrying out their powers and duties.</text>
      <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §5(1st cl.)</annotation>
      <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
    </section>
    <section prefix="§" num="2-206" heading="Impersonating Departmental personnel.">
      <text>No person may, without authority to do so:</text>
      <para num="(1)">use any identification issued to employees of the Department; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">otherwise represent him- or herself as an employee of the Department.</para>
      <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §3(3rd par., 1st cl.)</annotation>
      <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
    </section>
    <section prefix="§" num="2-207" heading="Failure to comply with Commissioner’s order or notice.">
      <text>No person may refuse, neglect, or otherwise fail to comply with any order or notice issued under &lt;cite data-path="|health"&gt;this article&lt;/cite&gt; by or under the authority of the Commissioner.</text>
      <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §6(1st cl.)</annotation>
      <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
    </section>
    <section prefix="§§" num="2-208 to 2-209" reserved="true" />
  </container>
  <container prefix="Part" num="III" heading="Penalties.">
    <section prefix="§" num="2-211" heading="Violation a misdemeanor.">
      <text>Any person who violates any provision of this subtitle is guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, is subject to the penalties provided in this Part III.</text>
      <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
    </section>
    <section prefix="§" num="2-212" heading="Basic penalty: $500.">
      <text>Except as otherwise specified in this Part III, the penalty for a violation of this subtitle is a fine of not more than $500 for each offense.</text>
      <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §3(3rd par.(last cl.)), §5(last cl.)</annotation>
      <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
    </section>
    <section prefix="§" num="2-213" heading="Failure to obey notice or order: $200 plus $50/day.">
      <text>Unless a higher penalty is specified in &lt;cite data-path="|health"&gt;this article&lt;/cite&gt; for the same offense, the penalty for a violation of &lt;cite data-path="|health|§2-207"&gt;§ 2-207 {“Failure to comply with order or notice”} of this subtitle&lt;/cite&gt; is a fine of not more than $200 for each offense, plus $50 for each day that the offense continues.</text>
      <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §6(last cl.)</annotation>
      <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
    </section>
  </container>
</baltimore-city-law>
