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<section number="23-150" name="Duty to remove snow, ice, weeds, litter, and debris" law="code" slug="sec-23-150" node_id="PTIITI17PULOLAPRGECOMA_SUBTITLE_23ROSI_DIV4RERESNICWELIDESIDERO_S23-150DURESNICWELIDE">
  <level label="a">
    <text>For the purposes of this Section only, "commercial property" shall mean any property that is used to conduct a trade or business that provides goods or services to the public. It shall also include properties that are zoned industrial or commercial (or, collectively, nonresidential), residential, rural and agricultural, Transit-Oriented/Activity Center, or planned development under the provisions of Subtitle 27 of this Code that are used to provide goods or services to the public.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>It shall be the duty of the owner or lessor, as the case may be, of a residential dwelling unit or commercial property, unless such duty has been delegated to a lessee in actual possession, to remove snow and ice from any sidewalk abutting the subject property within forty-eight (48) hours after snow has fallen or ice has formed as a result of inclement weather or runoff from abutting surfaces.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>It shall be the duty of the owner or lessor, as the case may be, of a residential dwelling unit or commercial property, unless such duty has been delegated to a lessee in actual possession, to remove litter and debris from the property line of that building, lot, or land to the edge of the concrete curb and gutter adjoining the roadway in the case of an urban (closed) section roadway, and from the private property line to the edge of the paved roadway surface in the case of a rural (open) section roadway.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>It shall be the duty of the owner or lessor, as the case may be, of a residential dwelling unit or commercial property, unless such duty has been delegated to a lessee in actual possession, to keep all weeds, as defined in Section 23-102 of this Subtitle, located in the public space set forth in Subsection (c) of this Section, cut to a height of not over six (6) inches.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The Police Department or other appropriate County enforcement agency shall be responsible for enforcing the provisions of this Section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>Any person primarily responsible for the removal of snow, ice, weeds, or debris who breaches said duty shall be subject to a civil fine not to exceed One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for each separate offense. Any person primarily responsible for the removal of litter who breaches said duty shall be subject to a civil fine of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for each separate offense.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>This Section shall not apply to materials left within the public right-of-way as a result of a lawfully executed eviction action, from a single family rental facility as defined in Section 13-138 of the Code or for bulky trash left in the right-of-way as a result of illegal dumping by others.</text>
  </level>
</section>
