The provisions of this chapter shall be severable, and if any of its provisions shall be held to be unconstitutional, illegal or otherwise invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of any of the remaining provisions of this chapter. It is hereby declared as a legislative intent that this chapter would have been adopted had such unconstitutional, illegal or other invalid provision not been included herein.
A. 
All previous ordinances, resolutions and rules of the Town of Manchester pertaining to the regulation of traffic and parking are hereby repealed.
B. 
The repeal of ordinances provided for in Subsection A above shall not affect or prevent the prosecution or punishment of any person for any act done or liability incurred in violation of any ordinance or regulation in force immediately prior to the taking effect of this chapter.
C. 
The provisions of this chapter, insofar as they are the same as those of ordinances and regulations in force immediately prior to the enactment of this chapter, are intended as a continuation of such ordinances and regulations and not as new enactments.
[Amended 4-8-1980 by Ord. No. 18; 4-12-1988 by Ord. No. 51; 11-8-1994 by Ord. No. 92; 2-14-1995 by Ord. No. 93; 5-13-2003 by Ord. No. 149; 6-9-2009 by Ord. No. 195; 1-11-2022 by Ord. No. 248]
Violation of this chapter is a municipal infraction. Unless another penalty is expressly provided for in the Transportation Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland, every person found guilty of a violation of a provision of this chapter or supplement thereto shall be liable to pay a penalty as provided in the Charter, § C12-3B,[1] provided that the penalty for all parking violations shall be $50, except for the following: the penalty for handicap parking violations shall be $100; the penalty for parking an abandoned vehicle and/or a vehicle without valid registration plates shall be $100 for the first offense; and the penalty for parking during snow emergencies shall be $75. These fines may be doubled for each subsequent offense for any offender who receives more than one fine for the same offense within 30 days of each other. Each day that any violation of this chapter shall continue shall constitute a separate infraction.
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Editor's Note: See Ch. 23, Infractions and Misdemeanors, Municipal.
[Amended 6-9-2009 by Ord. No. 195; 1-11-2022 by Ord. No. 248]
All motor vehicle laws described in § 11-101 et seq. of the Transportation Article, including the Rules of the Road set forth in Title 21 therein, of the Code of Maryland shall apply in addition to the regulations set down in this chapter.