Baltimore City Council
File #: 12-0138    Version: 0 Name: Transit and Traffic - Commercial Vehicles
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 9/10/2012 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 5/8/2015
Enactment #: 15-349
Title: Transit and Traffic - Commercial Vehicles FOR the purpose of defining "passenger car", as used in an exception to vehicles having commercial advertising; conforming that and certain other elements of the definitions of "commercial vehicle"; correcting and clarifying related provisions; and generally relating to the regulation of commercial vehicles.
Sponsors: James B. Kraft, Bill Henry, Warren Branch, Brandon M. Scott, William "Pete" Welch
Indexes: Commercial Vehicles, Traffic, Transit
Attachments: 1. 12-0138 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Law - 12-0138.pdf, 3. Transportation - 12-0138.pdf, 4. Police - 12-0138.png, 5. 12-0138~3rd Reader
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
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Transit and Traffic - Commercial Vehicles
FOR the purpose of defining "passenger car", as used in an exception to vehicles having commercial advertising; conforming that and certain other elements of the definitions of "commercial vehicle"; correcting and clarifying related provisions; and generally relating to the regulation of commercial vehicles.
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BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article 31 - Transit and Traffic
Section(s) 1-1(f) and 6-26(a)
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

§ 11. Definitions - A to L.

(f) Commercial vehicle.

"Commercial vehicle" means:

(1) every vehicle designed, maintained, and used primarily for the transportation and/or hauling of property, including but not limited to equipment, merchandise, parcels, earth, trash, refuse, scrap, or motor vehicles;


(2) every vehicle, except a passenger car (AS DEFINED IN MARYLAND VEHICLE LAW§ 11-144.1), [which] THAT has commercial advertising on the exterior of the [body] VEHICLE or on equipment attached [thereto] TO THE VEHICLE;

(3) every vehicle [having] THAT HAS a maximum gross vehicle weight ...

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