Official:Amending Chapter 9-4400 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled “Responsible Business Operations,” to expand the provisions for video monitoring of nuisance businesses and to provide additional enforcement mechanisms in connection with certain nuisance businesses engaged in drug paraphernalia sales, all under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Councilmember Gilmore Richardson
Introduced: September 14, 2023
Signed: November 30, 2023
: Committee on Licenses and Inspections
Status: Signed into Law, step 4 of 4
This bill allows Philadelphia to better enforce laws against nuisance businesses that sell drug paraphernalia by expanding video monitoring and requiring additional enforcement mechanisms.
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