Baltimore City Administrative Procedure Act - Regulations For the purpose of establishing a uniform procedure for the notice, publication, and adoption of regulations in Baltimore City government; establishing the Code of Baltimore Regulations Annotated (COBRA) and providing for its contents; defining certain terms; requiring that a proposed regulation cite the statutory authority under which it is being proposed and embrace only a single subject; requiring that proposed regulation be approved for form and legal sufficiency by the City Solicitor prior to its publication; requiring that agencies publish notice of the proposed regulation and allow for public comments to be submitted for a certain period of time; setting forth the modes of publication of a proposed regulation; establishing the contents of the notice of proposed regulation; allowing for any Councilmember to refer a proposed regulation for review by the Committee on Legislative Investigations and providing for the procedures for that review; requiring that, after the notice and comment period, an agency re-submit the proposed regulation to the City Solicitor for a determination of whether any material changes have been made to the regulation; requiring that proposed regulation be re-published if a material change has been made; providing for a certain period for which a proposed regulation must be adopted by a regulation before the proposed regulation is deemed withdrawn; providing for temporary regulations during certain emergencies; requiring that adopted regulations be submitted to the Director of Legislative Reference prior to the regulations taking effect; permitting the Director of Legislative Reference to make certain non-substantive changes to a regulation; allowing an agency to remove certain obsolete regulations; providing for the severability of certain regulations; providing for a special effective date; and generally relating to establishing an orderly and transparent administrative procedure for the adoption of regulations in Baltimore City.

Committee

Mayor

Introduced

July 6, 2020

Passed

November 16, 2020

Enactment no.

20-431