An article providing rules and regulations for motor vehicular
traffic, parking control and restrictions, impounding of vehicles,
and speed limits within the corporate limits of the Town of Chesapeake
City.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 26-20(b) of the Charter
for the Town of Chesapeake City, the following regulations are adopted.
The provisions of this article are intended to be in addition
to and supplementary to the provisions the Maryland vehicle laws and
related statutes as they appear in the Annotated Code of Maryland.
[Amended 5-22-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-003]
Whenever, in the judgment of the Mayor and Council of Chesapeake
City, 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
of Chesapeake City may erect or cause to be erected traffic signs
as approved in the Maryland Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
designed to control, regulate, warn or guide traffic or limit parking
on public streets or other areas in the Town of Chesapeake City, and
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 misdemeanor. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed
to constitute a repeal of the authority here before granted by the
Mayor and Council of Chesapeake City for the erection of traffic control
and parking restriction signs, and failure to observe any such signs
here before erected shall be subject to the same penalties as set
forth hereafter.
It shall be unlawful to park, store, or leave any vehicle, the
certificate of title, registration card, or registration plate of
which has expired, been revoked, cancelled or suspended, or for the
owner of any such vehicle to allow, permit, or suffer the same to
be parked, stored, or left, whether attended or not, upon any public
street, highway, alley or parking lot within the corporate limits
of the Town of Chesapeake City for a period longer than 24 hours.
Law enforcement personnel are authorized to remove and impound any
such vehicle parked, stored or left in violation of this section and
to keep the same impounded until the owner thereof, or other duly
authorized person, shall deposit collateral in the amount and the
manner as hereinafter provided for violation of this article, and
shall pay to the Town of Chesapeake City a sum equal to the towage
and any all reasonable storage charges incurred by the Town of Chesapeake
City in impounding said vehicle.
No person shall operate over the streets of Chesapeake City
any vehicle, motor-driven or otherwise, equipped with spikes, cleats
or other traction device which will inflict undue damage or injury
upon the surface of the streets of the Town.
Except as herein otherwise provided, the Maryland Vehicle Laws
of the State of Maryland are 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.
Unless otherwise specifically provided in this article or by
resolution, any person violating any of the provisions of this article
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall
be fined not to exceed $100 or may be confined to the Detention Center
of Cecil County for a period of not exceeding 30 days, or until such
fine and costs be paid.