City of Baltimore - File #: 09-0432

• File #: 09-0432
• Version: 0
• Name: Parking, Standing, and Stopping of Vehicles - Obstructing Alleys
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Failed - End of Term
• File created: 12/10/2009
• In control: City Council
• Title: Parking, Standing, and Stopping of Vehicles - Obstructing Alleys FOR the purpose of clarifying the law relating to obstructing the free passage of traffic with a vehicle; providing a certain exception for parking in alleys; and generally relating to parking, standing, or stopping that obstructs traffic.
• Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Bill Henry, Sharon Green Middleton, Warren Branch, President Young, Helen L. Holton, Agnes Welch, James B. Kraft, William H. Cole, IV, Belinda Conaway, Robert Curran
• Indexes: Alleys, Obstructing Alleys, Parking, Standing, Stopping, Vehicles

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/3/2010	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
12/15/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
12/15/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
12/15/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
12/15/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
12/15/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
12/10/2009	0	City Council	Introduced
12/10/2009	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 Clarke


A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
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Parking, Standing, and Stopping of Vehicles - Obstructing Alleys

FOR the purpose of clarifying the law relating to obstructing the free passage of traffic with a vehicle; providing a certain exception for parking in alleys; and generally relating to parking, standing, or stopping that obstructs traffic.
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BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article 31 - Transit and Traffic
Section(s) 6-3
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 6. Parking, Standing, and Stopping Regulations

Part 1. Method of Parking

§ 63. Obstructing free passage.

(A) 2WAY STREETS.

[No] ON A 2-WAY STREET, NO vehicle [shall] MAY be [so] parked, LEFT STANDING, or otherwise stopped SO as to prevent the free passage of other vehicles or street cars [in both directions at the same time].

(B) 1WAY STREETS.



ON A 1-WAY STREET, NO VEHICLE MAY BE PARKED, LEFT STANDING, OR OTHERWISE STOPPED SO AS TO PREVENT THE FREE PASSAGE OF OTHER VEHICLES OR STREET CARS IN THE 1-WAY TRAVEL LANE.

(C) EXCEPTION FOR...