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<section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="12-204" title_number="12" title_name="Baltimore City" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Board of License Commissioners">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Board or the Board’s designee governs, administers, and enforces this article in the City, including:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>supervising the activities and investigations of the inspectors and other employees of the Board;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>examining the location and general character of license holders in the City;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>reviewing the zoning of applicants and license holders during the license application, license transfer, and license renewal processes; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>subject to § 12–210 of this subtitle, adopting regulations concerning zoning of license holders and methods of enforcement to carry out the purposes and enforcement of this article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In accordance with Article VI, § 4 of the Baltimore City Charter, the Board shall provide to the Director of Finance of the City the estimates of the Board for the next fiscal year of the appropriations needed to effectively and efficiently achieve the mission and goals of the Board.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Board shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>submit a budget request to the City annually in the form that the Director of Finance of the City requires; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>provide additional budget justification material that the Director of Finance of the City requests.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Board shall establish annual performance measures using the CitiStat program of the City for activities such as:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>financial management;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>issuance of licenses; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>enforcement of alcoholic beverages laws.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Board shall make the performance measures available to the public on the Open Baltimore website.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>On request, the Board shall submit to the Office of Legislative Audits performance accountability reports to ensure that the Board is on track to meet its annual performance measures.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Board shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <level label="i">
        <text>digitize and post online all records for public review; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>adopt regulations to carry out this paragraph; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>prominently list on the website of the Board each fee or fine that the Board imposes and collects.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
