Baltimore City Council
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
On agenda: Final action:
Enactment #:
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
Attachments: 1. 09-0432 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Fire - 09-0432.pdf, 3. Planning - 09-0432.pdf, 4. Law - 09-0432.pdf, 5. Transportation - 09-0432.pdf, 6. Police - 09-0432.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
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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
 
ยง 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 ALLEYS.
 
A VEHICLE PARKED, STANDING, OR STOPPED IN AN ALLEY IS NOT OBSTRUCTING FREE PASSAGE THROUGH THE ALLEY, AND IS NOT SUBJECT TO A FINE OR IMPOUNDMENT, IF IT IS PARKED, STANDING, OR STOPPED SO THAT IT LEAVES A 10-FOOT WIDE OR WIDER TRAVEL LANE THROUGH THE ALLEY FOR ANOTHER VEHICLE.
 
  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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