[Adopted 10-6-1977 by Ord. No. 26[1]]
[Amended 4-13-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-02]
The provisions of this article are intended
to be in addition to and supplementary to the provisions of the Transportation
Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland, as amended, and in accordance
with the authority specifically granted thereby.
[Amended 4-13-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-02]
Whenever, in the judgment of the Mayor and Council
of Rock Hall, it is necessary for the safety or control of vehicular
or pedestrian traffic or for the regulation of the use of parking
areas, the Mayor and Council may erect or cause to be erected weight
limit, stop, no-parking, speed limit, one-way and other traffic control
and parking restriction signs designed to control, regulate, warn
or guide traffic or limit parking on public streets, highways or other
areas in the Town of Rock Hall. It shall be the duty of all persons
to observe such signs, and any person failing to observe any such
sign shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of a municipal infraction.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to constitute a repeal of
the authority herebefore granted by the Mayor and Council of Rock
Hall for the erection of traffic control and parking restriction signs,
and a failure to observe any such signs herebefore erected shall be
subject to the same penalties as set forth hereafter.
A.
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle, except
when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance
with the direction of a police officer or traffic control device,
in any of the following places:
(1)
On sidewalks.
(2)
In front of a public driveway or alley or in front
of a private driveway, except with the consent of the owner or occupant
of the premises.
(3)
Within an intersection.
(4)
Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant.
(5)
On a crosswalk or within 20 feet of a crosswalk at
an intersection, except for the purpose of receiving or discharging
passengers or merchandise.
(6)
Within 25 feet of any beacon, stop sign or traffic
control signal located at the side of a roadway.
(7)
Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within
30 feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety
zone, except for the period necessary to take on or discharge passengers,
freight or merchandise.
(8)
Within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire
department station or within 75 feet of said entrance when sign-posted.
[Amended 4-13-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-02]
(9)
Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction
when such stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic.
(10)
On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or
parked at the edge or curb of a street, except for the purpose of
receiving or discharging passengers or merchandise.
(11)
At any place where an official sign or painted
curb of Kent County, the State of Maryland or the Mayor and Council
of Rock Hall prohibits stopping, parking or standing, and it is hereby
specifically provided that wherever a curb is painted red or yellow,
there shall be no parking, standing or stopping parallel to said painted
curb.
(12)
On curves at the brow of a hill, where the State
Highways Commission or the Mayor and Council of Rock Hall have painted
yellow lines on the surface of the road.
[Amended 8-10-1979 by Ord. No. 79-6]
B.
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle designed
or used for carrying freight or merchandise in front of, alongside
of or in the rear of any private dwelling, except when actually unloading
merchandise or when the operator or owner of such vehicle is actually
engaged in rendering a service at or to such premises.
C.
No person shall stop, park or leave standing on the
roadway any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, if it is practicable
to stop, park or leave the vehicle standing off the roadway.
[Added 8-10-1979 by Ord. No. 79-6]
D.
No person shall leave any vehicle standing without
providing an unobstructed width of the roadway opposite the standing
vehicle for the free passage of other vehicles.
[Added 8-10-1979 by Ord. No. 79-6]
E.
No person shall stop any vehicle, unless it can be
seen clearly from 200 feet away in each direction on the roadway.
[Added 8-10-1979 by Ord. No. 79-6]
F.
Exceptions for disabled vehicles. These provisions
do not apply to the driver of a vehicle that has become unintentionally
so disabled while on the roadway that he cannot avoid stopping and
temporarily leaving the vehicle there.
[Added 8-10-1979 by Ord. No. 79-6]
A.
Every duly authorized police officer of the Town of Rock Hall shall attach to any vehicle found to be in violation of §§ 215-2 and 215-3 of this article a notice to the owner thereof that such vehicle has been in violation of the provisions of this article and instructing such owner to either mail the amount due or report to the Town Clerk-Treasurer during regular office hours thereof in regard to such violation. Each such owner shall, at such time as specified on the notice of violation attached to such vehicle, pay at the office of the Town Clerk-Treasurer to the clerk in charge thereof, as a penalty and in full satisfaction of such violation, the sum as provided in § 215-9. Failure of such owner to make such payment upon such conditions shall render the owner subject to the penalty hereinafter imposed.
[Amended 8-10-1979 by Ord. No. 79-6; 4-13-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-02]
B.
Any duly authorized police officer of the Town of
Rock Hall shall take said notice to a duly authorized and appointed
Trial Magistrate of Kent County for the purpose of having a warrant
for the arrest of such owner issued and for the setting of an amount
of collateral to be posted. In the event that such owner does not
pay said collateral, he shall be subject to the penalties of fine
or imprisonment, or both, as provided in this article with respect
to the provision which has been violated.
No motor vehicle, truck or tractor shall be
operated upon any highway or street in the town at a speed greater
than 25 miles per hour except on such streets and highways as may
be covered by regulations and the placing of signs.
No person shall operate over the streets of
the Town of Rock Hall any vehicle, motor-driven or otherwise, equipped
with spikes, cleats or other traction device calculated to inflict
any undue damage or injury upon the surface of the streets of the
Town of Rock Hall.
A.
All vehicles shall be driven and parked on the right
hand side of the street, unless a street or avenue is designated by
a sign to be for one-way traffic. At any time that it shall become
necessary, the Mayor and Council may mark and designate areas which
may become congested, banning parking altogether if necessary. No
automobile or other vehicle shall stop in any street, avenue or highway
in such manner as to hinder or delay traffic or passage, and the Police
Department is empowered to enforce this provision by impounding said
vehicle.[1]
B.
Stop sign postings. The Mayor and Council shall designate
from time to time such streets as shall contribute to the safe movement
of traffic within the town as boulevards and may post intersecting
streets with appropriate stop signs so placed as to be readily visible
to the motoring public, and all traffic entering boulevards so designated
shall come to a complete stop before so doing.
C.
Parking lot adjoining fire house. Only pickup trucks
not exceeding 3/4 ton and passenger cars will be permitted to park
on the town parking lot adjoining the Rock Hall Fire House. There
shall be a maximum time limit of eight hours' parking between the
hours of 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m.
[Amended 8-10-1979 by Ord. No. 79-6]
D.
Angle parking. There will be no angle parking, but
only parallel parking, permitted on the north side of Sharp Street
between Main Street and Liberty Street in the Town of Rock Hall.
[Amended 8-10-1979 by Ord. No. 79-6]
E.
No parking. There shall be no parking of any kind
or nature of any motor vehicles on the following streets within the
Town of Rock Hall:
[Amended 8-10-1979 by Ord. No. 79-6]
|
Name of Street
|
Side
|
Location
|
|---|---|---|
|
Chesapeake Avenue
|
Both
|
From Main Street to Sharp Street
|
|
Main Street
[Amended 4-13-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-02] |
East
|
Between East Sharp Street and Maryland Route
20
|
|
Rock Hall Avenue (also known as Gratitude Road
or Maryland Route 20)
[Amended 9-5-1996 by Ord. No. 96-04] |
North
|
From the center line of North Main Street west
245 feet
|
|
Rock Hall Avenue (also known as Gratitude Road
or Maryland Route 20)
[Amended 9-5-1996 by Ord. No. 96-04; 4-13-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-02] |
West
|
From Liberty Street to Hawthorne Avenue
|
|
Sharp Street
[Repealed 4-13-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-02] | ||
|
South Main Street* (also known as Maryland Route
445)
|
Both
|
From the Methodist Church Hall to Boundary Avenue
|
|
No parking on Chesapeake Avenue within Town limits
[Added 4-13-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-02] |
Both
| |
|
No parking on North Sharp Street within Town limits
[Added 4-13-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-02] |
Both
|
|
NOTES:
| ||
|---|---|---|
|
*This restriction shall include all types of
motor vehicles and trailers.
|
F.
Loading and unloading areas.
(1)
There shall be no loading or unloading of merchandise
on Main Street of Rock Hall except in the areas specifically specified
as loading and unloading zones. Those areas are defined and identified
as follows:
(2)
Those areas specified above shall be properly posted
as loading and unloading zones and shall be painted and marked off
with yellow paint identification. There shall be no parking in the
areas thus specified except for loading and unloading between the
hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. each and every day except Sunday.
G.
Habitual parking.
[Added 6-4-1992 by Ord. No. 92-7]
(1)
No person shall park any vehicle on Main Street (Route
445) in the business district between Rock Hall Avenue (Route 20)
and Sharp Street, in the area so designated by the Mayor and Council
with a sign, for a period of longer than two hours between the hours
of 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
Except as herein otherwise provided, the Motor
Vehicle Law of the State of Maryland, which is hereby declared and
made a part of this article by reference, shall control and govern,
and any person violating any of the provisions thereof shall, upon
conviction, be subject to the penalties provided therein.
[Added 8-10-1979 by Ord. No. 79-6; amended 5-5-1994 by Ord. No.
94-4; 4-13-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-02]
Violations of this article shall be punishable
as a municipal infraction. Violators shall be subject to a fine as
indicated on the parking ticket. Each additional offense may be assessed
a fine not to exceed $200.
