[Adopted as Ch. 7.08 of the 1998 Code]
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 at
any place where an official sign or painted curb prohibits stopping,
parking or standing, and it is specifically provided that wherever
a curb is painted red or yellow, there shall be no parking, standing
or stopping parallel to that painted curb.
B.
It is unlawful for any person to park tractor-trailer
vehicles or parts thereof on any street or part of a street within
the corporate limits of the Town for a period exceeding one hour at
any one location.
C.
It is unlawful to park a vehicle more than 12 inches
from the curb, curbline or side of street or alley where the curbline
should normally be, the parked vehicle facing to the right of all
traffic. All parking shall be parallel with the curb. Exception will
be made to this subsection in cases of loading or unloading vehicle
or vehicles and the exception to be given for a reasonable time necessary
in loading and/or unloading vehicle or vehicles.
D.
The Town may make necessary and reasonable regulations
regarding the parking of motor vehicles, trailer trucks or trucks
of any type on the streets of the Town from 1:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m.
Saturday mornings, from the month of April to and including the month
of November, so that the streets can be swept.
[Amended by Ord. No. 97-107]
Every duly authorized appointed Town official
or agent shall attach to any vehicle found to be in violation of this
chapter a notice to the owner thereof that such vehicle has been in
violation of the provisions of this chapter and instructing such owner
to report to the office of the Town Clerk during regular office hours
thereof in regard to such violation. Each such owner may, within 48
hours of the time when such notice was attached to such vehicle, exclusive
of Sundays and legal holidays, pay at the office of the Town Clerk,
as a penalty and in full satisfaction of such violation, the sum of
$5. The failure of such owner to make such payment upon such conditions
shall render the owner subject to the penalty thereinafter imposed.
Any duly authorized appointed Town official or agent shall take said
notice to a duly authorized and appointed District Court of Maryland
for Carroll 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 such owner does not pay said collateral,
he or she 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.
Provisions exempting the limited parking restriction
for those residents of limited parking zones are established provided
that the following rules and regulations shall be complied with:
A.
The residence must be located within the limited parking
zone.
B.
The owner applying for exemption(s) must provide proof
of residency.
C.
The exempted vehicle(s) must display Maryland registration
plates.
D.
Exemption stickers, provided at no cost by the Town,
shall be affixed to the inside of the windshield, lower right-hand
corner (passenger's side).
E.
Only two exemptions shall be allowed per residence.
F.
Exceptions may be made administratively for properties
containing frontage which could accommodate more than two vehicles.
A.
No vehicle shall be permitted to remain parked continuously
upon any street for more than 48 hours, except where that vehicle
is parked in front of a property owned, leased or occupied by the
driver of the vehicle or where that parking is permitted with the
permission of the owner, lessee or occupant of this property.
B.
No commercial truck, bus, tractor, trailer, semitrailer
or house trailer shall be permitted to park or stand longer than one
hour continuously on any street within the Town, provided that the
provisions of this section shall not apply to commercial trucks which
are parked for the purpose of doing any public or private work for
or on behalf of any person, institution or governmental entity within
a radius of one block from the place of that work.
No person shall park a vehicle on any street
in such a manner that the vehicle shall constitute an obstruction
to the free flow of traffic upon the street.
