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.

 

                     * 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 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 ANY VEHICLE IS STOPPED OR PARKED ON A 2-WAY ROADWAY THAT HAS ONLY 1 TRAFFIC LANE:

 

(I)                     THE VEHICLE'S RIGHT HAND WHEELS SHALL BE WITHIN 12 INCHES OF THE RIGHT-HAND CURB OR EDGE OF THE ROADWAY; OR

 

(II)                     THE VEHICLE'S LEFT-HAND WHEELS SHALL BE WITHIN 12 INCHES OF THE LEFT-HAND CURB OR EDGE OF THE ROADWAY.

 

(b)  1-way streets.

 

[In all cases where] WHERE any vehicle is stopped or parked [upon] ON a 1-way roadway:

 

(1)                     the VEHICLE'S right hand wheels [of said vehicle] shall be within 12 inches of the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway; or

 

(2)                     the VEHICLE'S left-hand wheels shall be within 12 inches of the left-hand curb or edge of the roadway.

 

SECTION 2.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That the catchlines contained in this Ordinance are not law and may not be considered to have been enacted as a part of this or any prior Ordinance.

 

SECTION 3.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance takes effect on the 30th day after the date it is enacted.

 

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