§ 17-1. Definitions.

(a) In general.

In this subtitle, the following terms have the meanings indicated.

(b) Covered employer.

"Covered employer" means any person that employs 5 or more full-time equivalent employees in the City of Baltimore.

(c) Human trafficking.

"Human trafficking" means:

(1) sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform a commercial sex act has not attained 18 years of age; or

(2) the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.

(d) {Repealed}