Sec. 13-22. Certain vehicles prohibited from parking in residential district.


(a) It shall be unlawful to park a vehicle with a manufacturer’s rated capacity in excess of one ton or with a maximum gross vehicle weight in excess of eleven thousand five hundred (11,500) pounds in a residentially zoned district on public property or on private property within the minimum front yard required for that zoning district within the corporate limits of the city.
(b) This section shall not be construed to prohibit any vehicle from parking in a residentially zoned district for a reasonable time necessary to load or unload freight and/or passengers.
(c) This section shall not apply to school buses parked on school property in any residentially zoned district, provided they are not parked in the minimum front yard required for that zoning district.
(d) This section shall not apply to vehicles defined as “nonfreight trailers or semitrailers” as that term is defined in Section 13-927(b) of the Transportation Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland.
(e) Violation of the provisions of subsection (a) above shall be unlawful and the penalty for violation shall be the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00).
(f) Reference is hereby made to the Annotated Code of Maryland, including the transportation article therein, for a definition of all terms used herein. (Ord. No. G-83-29, § 1, 5-5-83; Ord. No. G-01-3, § 1, 1-4-01)