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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="9-1001" title_number="9" title_name="Fire Protection and Prevention" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Miscellaneous Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Barbecue grill” means equipment used for outdoor cooking that uses as its heat source electricity or the burning of charcoal, liquid propane gas, or other fuel.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>“Residential dwelling” means a building or part of a building that provides living or sleeping facilities for one or more individuals.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>“Residential dwelling” includes a multifamily residential dwelling, hotel, motel, boardinghouse, lodging house, rooming house, inn, club, or dormitory.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>“Residential dwelling” does not include:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>a single family residential dwelling; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>a multifamily residential dwelling in which the individual dwelling units are arranged in a row, side by side, and not constructed above each other.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>In Charles County and Wicomico County, a person may not use a barbecue grill:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>on a balcony of a residential dwelling; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>within 20 feet of any part, including a balcony, of a residential dwelling.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A person who violates this section is subject to the penalties of § 6-601 of this article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
