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<baltimore-city-law heading="Part I – Definitions; General Provisions">
  <section prefix="§" num="7-401" heading="Definitions.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">In this subtitle, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="License.">“License” means a license issued under this subtitle to operate a landfill.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Person.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Person” has the meaning stated in &lt;cite data-path="|general|1|1|1-107|(a)"&gt;§ 1-107(a) {“Person: In general”}&lt;/cite&gt; of the City Code’s &lt;cite data-path="|general"&gt;General Provisions Article&lt;/cite&gt;.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Qualified inclusion of governmental entities.">Notwithstanding &lt;cite data-path="|general|1|1|1-107|(b)"&gt;§ 1-107(b) {“Person: Exclusion”}&lt;/cite&gt; of the &lt;cite data-path="|general"&gt;General Provisions Article&lt;/cite&gt;, in this subtitle “person” also includes, except as used in &lt;cite data-path="|health|§7-419"&gt;§ 7-419 {“Penalties”} of this subtitle&lt;/cite&gt;, a governmental entity or an instrumentality or unit of a governmental entity.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-125</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="7-402" heading="Exceptions from subtitle.">
    <text>This subtitle does not apply to:</text>
    <para num="(1)">the random placement of broken stones or rubble as a foundation, sustaining wall, or similar structure to control erosion; or</para>
    <para num="(2)">to the otherwise lawful filling of land exclusively with earth fill material that contains:<para num="(i)">no more than 10% organic matter or rubble by volume; and</para>
      <para num="(ii)">no object larger than 12 inches in any dimension.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §§221(a)(2nd cl.), 221(1), 224</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§§" num="7-403 to 7-405" reserved="true" />
</baltimore-city-law>
