Chapter 13 MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC*
ARTICLE II. STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING*
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)
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