City of Baltimore - File #: 16-0674

• File #: 16-0674
• Version: 0
• Name: Transit and Traffic - No Camper or Mobile Home Parking on Residential Streets
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 5/16/2016
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 8/29/2016
• Enactment #: 16-508
• Title: Transit and Traffic - No Camper or Mobile Home Parking on Residential Streets FOR the purpose of prohibiting extended parking, standing, or stopping of camping trailers, mobile homes, motor homes, or travel trailers on residential streets; providing certain exceptions; setting certain penalties; and generally relating to the parking, standing, and stopping of camping trailers, mobile homes, motor homes, or travel trailers on City streets.
• Sponsors: James B. Kraft, Edward Reisinger, Eric T. Costello, Carl Stokes
• Indexes: Camper, Mobile Home, Parking, Residential, Streets, Traffic, Transit

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/12/2016	0	Mayor	Signed by Mayor
8/8/2016	0	City Council	Approved and Sent to the Mayor
7/18/2016	0	City Council	3rd Reader, for final passage
7/18/2016	0	Land Use and Transportation Committee	Recommended Favorably with Amendment
7/13/2016	0	Land Use and Transportation Committee	Recommended Favorably with Amendment	Pass
6/6/2016	0	Land Use and Transportation Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
5/19/2016	0	The City Council	Refer to Police Department
5/19/2016	0	The City Council	Refer to Dept. of Transportation
5/19/2016	0	The City Council	Refer to Parking Authority Board
5/19/2016	0	The City Council	Refer to City Solicitor
5/19/2016	0	The City Council	Refer to Dept. of Planning
5/19/2016	0	The City Council	Refer to Dept. of Housing and Community Development
5/16/2016	0	City Council	Assigned
5/16/2016	0	City Council	Introduced

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 - No Camper or Mobile Home Parking on Residential Streets

FOR the purpose of prohibiting extended parking, standing, or stopping of camping trailers, mobile homes, motor homes, or travel trailers on residential streets; providing certain exceptions; setting certain penalties; and generally relating to the parking, standing, and stopping of camping trailers, mobile homes, motor homes, or travel trailers on City streets.

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BY adding

   Article 31 - Transit and Traffic

   Section(s) 6-29 and 36-4(4), to be under the newly renamed part designation,

�Part 5. Commercial Vehicles, Trailers, and Mobile Homes, etc.�

   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 5.  Commercial Vehicles, [and] Trailers, AND MOBILE HOMES, ETC.

� 6-29.  CAMPING TRAILERS, MOBILE HOMES,  MOTOR HOMES, AND TRAVEL TRAILERS.

   (A)                      DEFINITIONS.

(1)  IN GENERAL.

IN THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS HAVE THE MEANINGS INDICATED.

(2)                     CAMPING TRAILER.

�CAMPING TRAILER� HAS THE MEANING STATED IN STATE TRANSPORTATION ARTICLE, � 11-106 {�CAMPING TRAILER�}.

(3)                     MOBILE HOME.

�MOBILE HOME� HAS THE MEANING STATED IN STATE TRANSPORTATION ARTICLE,  ��11-134 {�MOBILE HOME�}.

(4)                     MOTOR HOME.

�MOTOR HOME� HAS THE MEANING STATED IN STATE TRANSPORTATION ARTICLE,  ��11-134.3 {�MOTOR HOME�}.

(5)                     TRAVEL TRAILER.

�TRAVEL TRAILER� HAS THE MEANING STATED IN STATE TRANSPORTATION ARTICLE,  ��11-170 {�TRAVEL TRAILER�}.

   (B)  STOPPING BY RESIDENCE.

EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED IN THIS SECTION, NO CAMPING TRAILER, MOBILE HOME,  MOTOR HOME, OR TRAVEL TRAILER MAY PARK, STAND, OR STOP LONGER THAN 1 HOUR CONTINUOUSLY ON ANY STREET, LANE, OR ALLEY IN FRONT OF OR ADJACENT TO ANY PROPERTY USED OR INTENDED TO BE USED AS A RESIDENCE.

   (C)  EXCEPTIONS.

THIS SECTION DOES NOT APPLY TO:

(1)                     VEHICLES OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT; OR

(2)                     EMERGENCY VEHICLES BELONGING TO:

                                                                                                          (I)                     THE CITY;

(II)                     ANY PUBLIC UTILITY; OR

               (III) ANY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERVICE.

                     Subtitle 36.  Parking, Standing , and Stopping Regulations

��364.  $250 fines.

(4)                     PARKING OR STANDING A CAMPING TRAILER, MOBILE HOME, MOTOR HOME, OR TRAVEL TRAILER IN VIOLATION OF � 6-29(B) {�CAMPING TRAILERS, MOBILE HOMES, MOTOR HOMES AND TRAVEL TRAILERS: STOPPING BY RESIDENCE�} OF THIS ARTICLE IS PUNISHABLE BY A FINE OF $250.

   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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