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Hagerstown staff recommend cleaning up outdated loitering language; nuisance-abatement process explained
Summary
City staff reviewed two sections of city code Aug. 12: chapter 142 (loitering) and chapter 185 (nuisance abatement). Staff recommended removing or amending unconstitutional or outdated loitering provisions and summarized the city’s nuisance-abatement process, timelines (7/5/1 days), enforcement steps, billing and lien/collections procedures.
City staff and the police department reviewed two city-code topics at the Aug. 12 work session: Chapter 142 (loitering) and Chapter 185 (nuisance abatement, commonly called the weeds/trash/debris ordinance). Staff framed the loitering review as part of a broader code-cleanup effort and described portions of Chapter 142 that the city does not enforce because they were previously determined to be unconstitutional.
Loitering (Chapter 142): A police representative summarized the ordinance’s current language, noting the provision that prohibits standing or loitering within 50 feet of retail establishments that sell alcoholic beverages was determined by city legal counsel to be unconstitutional and is not enforced; staff recommended that the city amend the code to remove that obsolete…
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