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Timestamp: 2019-04-21 12:16:52+00:00

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§ 135. Office of the Inspector General: Office established.
There is an Office of the Inspector General, the head of which is the Inspector General.
§ 136. Office of the Inspector General: Inspector General.
(ix) a member of the City Council selected by majority vote of the Council.
(2) A quorum of the advisory board consists of 5 members.
(3) An affirmative vote of at least 5 members shall be necessary to appoint an Inspector General.
(1) The Inspector General shall be appointed without regard to political affiliation and must have experience in accounting, financial analysis, law, management analysis, public administration, or investigations.
(2) The Inspector General shall hold at the time of appointment, or be required to obtain within 7 months after appointment, certification as a Certified Inspector General.
The Inspector General shall serve a term of 6 years commencing from the date of appointment.
(4) in the advisory board’s sole determination, demonstrated a pattern of incompetence and lack of fitness for the position.
The advisory board shall meet at least once annually to review the performance of the Inspector General.
(1) Whenever a vacancy occurs for the Inspector General, or whenever the Inspector General is incapacitated or otherwise unavailable for duty for any cause, the highest ranking employee of the Office of the Inspector General shall be the Acting Inspector General until the vacancy is filled or the Inspector General is again available for duty.
(ii) issue an additional progress report every 60 days thereafter until the vacancy is filled or the Inspector General returns to duty.
§ 137. Office of the Inspector General: Powers and duties of Office.
The Inspector General shall supervise and direct the Office of the Inspector General.
(b) Responsibilities of the Office.
(3) promoting ethical, fiscal, and legal accountability.
(6) external recipient of City funds, benefits, or services.
(d) Inspections, investigations, and evaluations.
(2) any other official act or function of any governmental entity under the jurisdiction of the Office.
(1) The Office of the Inspector General shall prepare and publish an annual report of the Office’s activities.
(2) The annual report may include recommendations regarding program weakness, contracting irregularities, or other institutional problems discovered by the Office.
(ii) after any redactions required by law, posted on the Office of the Inspector General’s website.
(f) Public reports of investigations.
The Inspector General may publish for public viewing a report of any investigation, inspection, or evaluation, except that any sensitive or confidential information must be redacted as required by law.
The Inspector General shall serve as the Executive Director of the Board of Ethics established under § 106(a) of this Article and modified under § 110 of this Article, and shall use the Office of the Inspector General’s staff and resources to support the Board of Ethics and fulfill the Executive Director’s responsibilities.
(h) Referrals and joint investigations.
(3) notify the City Solicitor and take further action in concurrence with the City Solicitor.
(i) Authority to cancel or suspend contracts.
(2) a contractor on the contract has provided false statements to a City official.
(1) The Inspector General shall take appropriate steps to build public awareness of the Office of the Inspector General and of all procedures established by the Inspector General for receiving complaints.
(2) The Inspector General shall provide information to City employees about the identification and prevention of fraud, waste, and abuse of office in City government.
The Inspector General may, on any matter of policy or practice, make recommendations to the Mayor or to the head of any City department or agency, if the Inspector General believes that the implementation of the recommendation would assist in the promotion of efficiency, accountability, and integrity in City government.
The Inspector General shall establish policies and procedures that guide the functions and processes conducted by the Office of the Inspector General.
§ 138. Office of the Inspector General: Funding.
The Board of Estimates shall annually include in the Ordinance of Estimates submitted to the City Council an amount sufficient to fund the Office of the Inspector General at not less than 10 times the salary of the Mayor.
(b) Inspector General’s salary included.
(1) The Inspector General’s compensation shall be at least equal to 80% of the Mayor’s compensation.
(2) The Inspector General’s compensation may be included in the funding provided under subsection(a) of this section and need not be appropriated in addition to that funding in the Ordinance of Estimates.
§ 139. Office of the Inspector General: Access to persons and records; Subpoena power.
The Inspector General shall have access to any head of any City entity under the jurisdiction of the Office of the Inspector General when necessary for any purpose pertaining to the Inspector General’s powers and duties.
As allowed by law, the Inspector General shall have access to all records of any City entity under its jurisdiction. Officers and employees of City entities shall promptly provide to the Inspector General any information, document, report, record, account, or other material requested by the Inspector General, and the Inspector General is not required to obtain a subpoena for any records request made to any City entity.
(1) As part of an investigation into any matter under the jurisdiction of the Office of the Inspector General, the Inspector General may issue a subpoena independent of any further approval from the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, requiring any person to give testimony, or produce any document, report, record, account, or other material.
(2) A subpoena issued under this subsection may be judicially enforced by the City Solicitor in any court of competent jurisdiction.
§ 140. Office of the Inspector General: Duties of employees and officers under jurisdiction of the Office.
Any officer or employee under the jurisdiction of the Office of the Inspector General who receives a complaint of fraud, waste, or abuse shall immediately refer the complaint to the Office of the Inspector General.
§ 141. Office of the Inspector General: Confidentiality.
The Office of the Inspector General may not disclose to any person outside of the Office the identity of any complainant without the consent of the complainant, except when disclosure is required by law.
§ 142. Office of the Inspector General: Transition procedure.
The individual holding the position of Inspector General of the City of Baltimore in the Law Department on November 6, 2018 will assume the position of Inspector General created by § 135 of this Article on the date that § 135 goes into effect.
The 6 year term of the Inspector General assuming office under subsection (a) of this section runs from the date of her or his appointment to the position of Inspector General of the City of Baltimore in the Law Department.
(1) The funding requirements of § 138 of this Article will apply to the Ordinance of Estimates adopted after November 6, 2018 and each subsequent Ordinance of Estimates.
(2) In the period between the effective date of § 135 of this Article and the adoption of a new Ordinance of Estimates, the Office of the Inspector General created by § 135 may operate using the funds previously appropriated for the Office of the Inspector General in the Law Department.
Authority By: Baltimore Committee For Accountability and Transparency, Treasurer: Jen Peeples.

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