Baltimore City Council
File #: 07-0766    Version: 0 Name: Parking - 1-Lane Streets
Type: Ordinance Status: Failed - End of Term
File created: 8/13/2007 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 12/18/2007
Enactment #:
Title: Parking - 1-Lane Streets FOR the purpose of authorizing an alternative parking method on 2-way roadways that have only 1 traffic lane; correcting, conforming, and clarifying certain language; and generally relating to parking, stranding, and stopping regulations.
Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, James B. Kraft, Sharon Green Middleton, Belinda Conaway
Indexes: 1-Lane Streets, Parking, Streets
Attachments: 1. 07-0766 - 1st Reader.pdf
EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

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INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL


Introduced by: Councilmember Clarke


A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Parking - 1-Lane Streets

FOR the purpose of authorizing an alternative parking method on 2-way roadways that have only 1 traffic lane; correcting, conforming, and clarifying certain language; and generally relating to parking, stranding, and stopping regulations.
Body
BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article 31 - Transit and Traffic
Section(s) 1-1(p) and 6-1(a) and (b)
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 31. Transit and Traffic

Subtitle 1. Definitions; General Provisions

§ 1-1. Definitions - A to L.

(p) Lane.

"Lane" means any section of a roadway [which] THAT is clearly delineated from the other sections of [said] THAT roadway by lines, markings, or physical barriers.


Subtitle 6. Parking, Standing, and Stopping Regulations

Part 1. Method of Parking

§ 6-1. In general.

(a) 2-way streets.

(1) [In] EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH (2) OF THIS SUBSECTION, [all cases] where any vehicle is stopped or parked [upon] ON a 2-way roadway, the VEHICLE'S right-hand wheels [of said vehicle] shall be parallel to and within 12 inches of the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway.

(2) HOWEVER, WHERE ...

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