[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Commissioners of the Town of Delmar, Maryland, 9-12-1994 by Ord. No. 658. Amendments noted where applicable.]
For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall be applicable unless the context clearly indicates to the contrary.
BOAT TRAILER
Includes a vehicle without automotive power, designed to transport a boat or other property wholly on its own structure and to be drawn by a motor vehicle.
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE
Includes any vehicle of a type designed, used or maintained for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation or profit or transportation or property for hire, compensation or profit, except taxicabs.
PERSON
Includes any natural person, corporation, partnership, society, club, firm, company, partner, director, officer, lessee, employer, employee, or any of them, including an executor, administrator, trustee, receiver or other representative appointed pursuant to law.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE
Includes any motor vehicle used for temporary human living quarters, not the permanent residence of the owner or occupant, and used for recreational or vacation activities, including, but not limited to, motor homes, self-propelled campers and other motor vehicles with permanently attached camper components and vans which are used for personal pleasure and not for commercial use, regardless of the equipment or furnishings contained within such van, mobile home, camping trailers, pop-up camping trailers, pickup coaches or any other motor vehicle designed for or utilized as a temporary or vacation residence.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 15, General Provisions, Art. II)]
STREET
Includes all streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, lanes, alleys, sidewalks, curbs or other areas used for vehicular or pedestrian traffic within the corporate limits of the Town of Delmar.
TOWN
The Town of Delmar, Maryland.
TRAILER
Includes a mobile home, travel trailer, house trailer, office trailer, camping trailer or any other vehicle without motive power, designed to carry property or passengers wholly on its own structure and to be drawn by a motor vehicle.
In order to promote safe, unimpeded traffic circulation in residential areas, safe ingress and egress over residential driveways and to reduce congestion in the streets, the following restrictions limiting parking, stopping or storage of certain types of motor vehicles and trailers shall be applicable.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park, stand or store or permit to be parked or stored any boat trailer, commercial vehicle, recreational vehicle or trailer on any street in any district of the Town which is zoned as an R-1 Residential District or as an R-2 Residential District for a period of time exceeding two hours unless actual loading or unloading of such motor vehicle or trailer is being performed.
The provisions of this chapter shall not be applicable to motor vehicles of contractors working in the area whose vehicles are less than 17 feet in total length, noncommercial passenger vans, passenger vans and passenger pickup trucks less than 17 feet in total length, including any attachments, emergency vehicles, vehicles of the Town of Delmar while on official business and motor vehicles of other governmental agencies while on official business.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 15, General Provisions, Art. II)]
Any violation of this chapter shall be punishable as a municipal infraction. A fine of $50 may be imposed for each violation of this chapter. A fine of $100 may be imposed for a second violation of this chapter. Each day a violation continues shall be deemed a separate municipal infraction.
Notwithstanding any other provision concerning a penalty, any officer of the Town, while in the performance of his duty, may remove or cause to be removed, at the expense of the owner or operator of any such vehicle, any vehicle parked or left standing in violation of the provisions of this chapter when the owner or operator is unable, unwilling or unavailable to move vehicle immediately. If any vehicle is removed pursuant to the provisions of this section, the owner or operator thereof shall pay the fine imposed by the provisions of § 221-5 of this chapter, the cost of removal, a reasonable charge for storage, as set from time to time by the Commissioners, for each day or part thereof that the vehicle is so stored, and any court cost. In addition, the said owner or operator shall sign a receipt for such motor vehicle prior to its being released to him by the storage facility. In the event that payment is made under protest, a bail bond for further appearance shall be posted as required by a court of competent jurisdiction.