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<baltimore-city-law heading="Part IV – Enforcement; Penalties">
  <section prefix="§" num="7-627" heading="Grants for reports of violations.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">The City Housing Commissioner must establish a grants program for rewarding community and neighborhood associations that have registered for this purpose with the Housing Commissioner and have been designated by citizens reporting illegal disposal or other violations of this subtitle.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Grant awards.">
      <para num="(1)">Funds for these grants are as provided in the Ordinance of Estimates.</para>
      <para num="(2)">The amount of the grants, the criteria for allocating and awarding them, and the purposes for which they may be used are as set forth in the rules and regulations adopted by the Commissioner under &lt;cite data-path="|health|§2-106"&gt;§ 2-106 {“Rules and regulations”} of this article&lt;/cite&gt;.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 09-202</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Text Conformed 03/10/21</annotation>
    <annotation type="Editor's Notes">Text conformed to include express cross-reference to § 2-106.  Cf. Editor’s Note to that section.</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="7-628" heading="Liability for costs and expenses.">
    <text>Any person who, in violation of &lt;cite data-path="|health|§7-608"&gt;§ 7-608 {“Dumping on public property”} of this subtitle&lt;/cite&gt; or in violation of any other provision of law, dumps or otherwise disposes of matter in or on property owned, leased, or controlled by the City is liable to the City for the costs of:</text>
    <para num="(1)">removing the matter dumped or disposed of; and</para>
    <para num="(2)">repairing any damage caused by the dumping or disposal.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 11-478</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 12-065</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§§" num="7-629 to 7-630" reserved="true" />
  <section prefix="§" num="7-631" heading="Enforcement by Environmental or Civil Citation.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">In addition to any other civil or criminal remedy or enforcement procedure, this subtitle may be enforced by issuance of:<para num="(1)">an environmental citation under City Code &lt;cite data-path="|1"&gt;Article 1&lt;/cite&gt;, Subtitle 40 {“Environmental Control Board”}; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">a civil citation under City Code &lt;cite data-path="|1"&gt;Article 1&lt;/cite&gt;, Subtitle 41 {“Civil Citations”}.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Process not exclusive.">The issuance of a citation to enforce this subtitle does not preclude pursuing any other civil or criminal remedy or enforcement action authorized by law.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 03-595</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 08-044</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 09-202</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="7-632" heading="Criminal penalties.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Basic penalty: $1,000 and 90 days.">Except as specified in subsection (b) of this section, any person who violates any provision of this subtitle or who authorizes any employee or agent to violate any provision of this subtitle is guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, is subject to any one or more of the following for each offense:<para num="(1)">a fine of not more than $1,000; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">imprisonment for not more than 90 days.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Enhanced penalty: $1,000 and 12 months.">If the violation entails the disposal, in any 24-hour period, of material that weighs 25 or more pounds or material that comprises 10 or more cubic feet, the penalty for a violation of this subtitle is any one or more of the following for each offense:<para num="(1)">a fine of not more than $1,000;</para>
      <para num="(2)">imprisonment for not more than 12 months; and</para>
      <para num="(3)">revocation of the privilege of seeking a building permit in the City.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §136(1st sen.), art. 19, §176</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 08-044</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 09-202</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 11-478</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
