City of Baltimore - File #: 06-0438

• File #: 06-0438
• Version: 0
• Name: Mopeds and Motor Scooters - Registration and Operation
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 5/15/2006
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 3/19/2007
• Enactment #: 07-398
• Title: Mopeds and Motor Scooters - Registration and Operation FOR the purpose of reauthorizing the use of certain mopeds and motor scooters, subject to certain conditions; reinstating registration requirements for these vehicles; prohibiting certain uses of these and other vehicles; defining certain terms; imposing certain penalties; clarifying certain language; authorizing enforcement and administration by the Department of Transportation; and generally relating to mopeds, motor scooters, dirt bikes, and unregistered motorcycles and similar vehicles.
• Sponsors: James B. Kraft, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Robert Curran, Agnes Welch, Helen L. Holton, Belinda Conaway, President Young, Rochelle Spector, Paula Johnson Branch
• Indexes: Mopeds, Motor Scooters, Operation, Registration

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/19/2007	0	Mayor	Signed by Mayor
3/12/2007	0	City Council	Approved and Sent to the Mayor
2/26/2007	0	City Council	Advanced to 3rd Rdr., Adopted Comm. Report
2/26/2007	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Recommended Favorably with Amendment
2/12/2007	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
5/18/2006	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
5/18/2006	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
5/18/2006	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
5/18/2006	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
5/15/2006	0	City Council	Introduced
5/15/2006	0	City Council	Assigned

EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL

Introduced by: Councilmember Kraft

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Mopeds and Motor Scooters - Registration and Operation

FOR the purpose of reauthorizing the use of certain mopeds and motor scooters, subject to certain conditions; reinstating registration requirements for these vehicles; prohibiting certain uses of these and other vehicles; defining certain terms; imposing certain penalties; clarifying certain language; authorizing enforcement and administration by the Department of Transportation; and generally relating to mopeds, motor scooters, dirt bikes, and unregistered motorcycles and similar vehicles.
Body
BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article 19 - Police Ordinances
Section(s) 40-1 through 40-21, inclusive, to be under the renamed
"Subtitle 40. Unregistered Motorcycles and Similar Vehicles"
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)

SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Laws of Baltimore City read as follows:

Baltimore City Code

Article 19. Police Ordinances

Subtitle 40. [Dirt Bikes,] Unregistered Motorcycles[,] and Similar Vehicles

PART 1. DEFINITIONS; GENERAL PROVISIONS

§ 40-1. Definitions.

(a) In general.

In this subtitle, the following words have the meaning indicated.


(B) DEPARTMENT.

"DEPARTMENT" MEANS THE MAYOR'S DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.

(C) [(b...