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<baltimore-city-law heading="Subtitle 4 – Penalties.">
  <section prefix="§" num="8-401" heading="Enforcement by citation.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">In addition to any other civil or criminal remedy or enforcement procedure, this title may be enforced by issuance of:<para num="(1)">an environmental citation under City Code &lt;cite data-doc="City of Balt., Md., Ord. 24-421" 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-doc="City of Balt., Md., Ord. 24-421" 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 title 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="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §§10(2nd sen.), 16, 21</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 19-232</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="8-402" heading="Penalties: Gas-powered debris removal equipment.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">Except as otherwise specified in this subtitle, an enforcement officer may issue a civil or an environmental citation for violating the provisions of &lt;cite data-path="health|§8-302"&gt;§ 8-302&lt;/cite&gt; {“Prohibition of gas-powered debris removal equipment”} of this title if the enforcement officer:<para num="(1)">witnesses the violation; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">receives from at least 1 witness a written complaint accompanied by photographic evidence and a signed affidavit in the form required by the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to &lt;cite data-path="health|§8-303"&gt;§ 8-303&lt;/cite&gt; of this title {“Rules and regulations”}</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Warning to cease and desist.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">An enforcement officer who finds that any person person, individual, contractor, or subcontractor violated the provisions of &lt;cite data-path="health|§8-302"&gt;§ 8-302&lt;/cite&gt; {“Prohibition of gas-powered debris removal equipment”} of this title shall order, on a first offense, that the person, individual, contractor, or subcontractor cease and desist the use of gas-powered debris removal equipment.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Requirements.">A special enforcement officer may find that a person, individual, contractor, or subcontractor has violated the provisions of &lt;cite data-path="health|§8-302"&gt;§ 8-302&lt;/cite&gt; {“Prohibition of gas-powered debris removal equipment”} of this title if the special enforcement officer:<para num="(i)">witnesses the violation; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">receives from at least 1 witness a written complaint accompanied by photographic evidence and a signed affidavit in the form required by the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to &lt;cite data-path="health|§8-303"&gt;§ 8-303&lt;/cite&gt; of this title{“Rules and regulations”}.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Subsequent offense.">
      <para num="(1)">A person, individual, contractor, or subcontractor who commits a subsequent offense is subject to a fine of $250 for each subsequent offense.</para>
      <para num="(2)">Each day that a violation continues is a separate offense.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 03-595</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §§10(2nd sen.), 16, 21</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 19-232</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
    <annotation type="History" />
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
