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<baltimore-city-law heading="Subtitle 9 – Miscellaneous Requirements">
  <section prefix="§" num="5-901" heading="Cleaning sidewalks and gutters.">
    <text>The person in charge of any premises or lot must keep the sidewalk and gutters bounding on the premises or lot open and free from waste or obstructions and clean at all times.</text>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §118, art. 19, §175</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="5-902" heading="Keeping offensive materials on property.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">No person may use or keep on that person’s property any liquid or solid matter that is or that, after exposure to the atmosphere or otherwise, is likely to become offensive or otherwise a nuisance.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Illustrations.">This section applies to, among other things, any:<para num="(1)">blood;</para>
      <para num="(2)">refuse coal oil;</para>
      <para num="(3)">dead animal or part of an animal;</para>
      <para num="(4)">domestic or sanitary sewage;</para>
      <para num="(5)">excrement;</para>
      <para num="(6)">filth;</para>
      <para num="(7)">foul or nauseous liquid;</para>
      <para num="(8)">garbage;</para>
      <para num="(9)">slaughter house or other trade cleanings;</para>
      <para num="(10)">stagnant water; or</para>
      <para num="(11)">other offensive matter of any kind.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §§119, 120, 123, 125</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="5-903" heading="Livestock.">
    <text>Every person who keeps a cow, horse, or other livestock in the City must keep the animal and its stable or other housing in such a way that no filth or stench becomes offensive to or annoys any neighbor or other person.</text>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §122</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="5-904" heading="Deposit on streets, etc. prohibited.">
    <text>No person may place or cause or allow to be placed on any street any noxious or objectionable matter that from its acid content or otherwise might be injurious or harmful to any person or to the clothing, household furnishings, or personal effects of any person.</text>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §121(1st sen.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="5-905" heading="Plastic  bags.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="“Plastic bag” defined.">“Plastic bag” means any bag that is:<para num="(1)">intended for household use or for packaging garments or other articles intended for household use;</para>
      <para num="(2)">larger than 6 inches in diameter at the open end; and</para>
      <para num="(3)">made of film less than 1 mil (0.001 inch) thick.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Printed warning required.">No person may package, deliver, or sell in a plastic bag any article for use in or around the household or sell or distribute any plastic bag for use in or around the household unless the bag bears a warning as required by this section.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Text of warning.">The warning must warn the consumer against the hazard of suffocation by children in the following or substantially equivalent wording:</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Placement and size.">
      <para num="(1)">The warning must be printed on, attached to, or accompany each plastic bag or each package of plastic bags delivered to the consumer.</para>
      <para num="(2)">The warning must be prominently and conspicuously displayed in bold face type, in accordance with the following table:

              &lt;table&gt;
                &lt;thead&gt;
                  &lt;tr&gt;
                    &lt;th&gt;Combined length and width of bag&lt;/th&gt;
                    &lt;th&gt;Minimum Size of Lettering&lt;/th&gt;
                  &lt;/tr&gt;
                &lt;/thead&gt;
                &lt;tbody&gt;
                  &lt;tr&gt;
                    &lt;td&gt;Less than 30 inches&lt;/td&gt;
                    &lt;td&gt;10 points&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;/tr&gt;
                  &lt;tr&gt;
                    &lt;td&gt;30 inches or more, but less than 40 inches&lt;/td&gt;
                    &lt;td&gt;14 points&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;/tr&gt;
                  &lt;tr&gt;
                    &lt;td&gt;40 inches or more, but less than 60 inches&lt;/td&gt;
                    &lt;td&gt;18 points&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;/tr&gt;
                  &lt;tr&gt;
                    &lt;td&gt;60 inches or more&lt;/td&gt;
                    &lt;td&gt;24 points&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;/tr&gt;
                &lt;/tbody&gt;
              &lt;/table&gt;
            </para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 19, §118</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="5-906" heading="Abandoned refrigerators, etc.">
    <text>No person may place or permit anyone else to place in any location that is outside of a dwelling or other building and accessible to children any abandoned, unattended, or uncrated ice box, refrigerator, or freezer cabinet equipped with a door or lock that cannot be opened from the inside.</text>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 19, §33(1st sen.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§§" num="5-907 to 5-909" reserved="true" />
  <section prefix="§" num="5-910" heading="Penalties.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">Any person who violates any provision of this subtitle is guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, is subject to the penalties specified in this section.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Basic penalty: $500.">Except as otherwise specified in this section, the penalty for a violation is a fine of not more than $500 for each offense.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Violation after notice: $1,000.">For a person who receives a notice under Subtitle 2 of this title to correct a violation of any provision of this subtitle and fails to comply with that notice, the penalty is a fine of not more than $1,000 for each offense.</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Abandoned refrigerators: $500 and 30 days.">
      <para num="(1)">For a person who violates any provision of &lt;cite data-path="|health|§5-906"&gt;§ 5-906 {“Abandoned refrigerators, etc.”} of this subtitle&lt;/cite&gt;, the penalty is a fine of not more than $500 or imprisonment for not more than 30 days or both fine and imprisonment for each offense.</para>
      <para num="(2)">Each day that a violation of § 5-906 continues is a separate offense.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 19, §33(2nd, 3rd sens.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
