City of Baltimore
Baltimore City Code

§ 10-1. Definitions.

(a) In general.

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

(b) Hotel.

"Hotel" means any building, including any motel, that:

(1) contains sleeping accommodations for more than 5 persons; and

(2) is open to the transient public.

(c) Housing Department; Department.

"Housing Department" or "Department" means the City Department of Housing and Community Development.

(d) 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.

(e) {Repealed}