§ 27-6. New employees to be Baltimore City residents.

(a) In general.

At least 51% of the new jobs required to complete the contract or project must be filled by Baltimore City residents.

(b) Exceptions.

MOED may waive or lower the requirement of subsection (a) of this section if it finds that:

(1) a good faith effort to comply has been made by the beneficiary;

(2) the beneficiary is located outside the Baltimore Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area and none of the contract work is performed inside the Baltimore Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area;

(3) the beneficiary has entered into a satisfactory special workforce development training or placement arrangement with MOED; or

(4) there are insufficient numbers of Baltimore City residents in the labor market who possess the skills required by the new jobs needed to be filled for the contract or project.