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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 5-507 Minors urinating or defecating in public.">
  <section prefix="§" num="5-507" heading="Minors urinating or defecating in public.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Order to stop.">A police officer who finds any minor violating &lt;cite data-path="|health|§5-503"&gt;§ 5-503 {“Urinating or defecating in public places — in general”} of this subtitle&lt;/cite&gt; must order the minor to stop the violation.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Failure to comply.">
      <para num="(1)">If the minor fails to comply with the order, the police officer may take him or her into custody.</para>
      <para num="(2)">After the information needed to carry out the purposes of this subtitle has been recorded, the minor must be:<para num="(i)">promptly released to his or her parent or guardian, with written notice to the parent or guardian of the violation; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">referred to the Baltimore City Police Department’s court sanctioned pre-intake adjustment program.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 19, §171A(b)(1), (2)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
