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<baltimore-city-law heading="Part III – Prohibited Conduct">
  <section prefix="§" num="17-30" heading="Food vendors – Receptacles; clean-up.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Receptacles required.">Every street vendor of food products must provide sufficient trash receptacles for the use of customers.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Trash removal.">On leaving any location, the street vendor must remove all trash within a 10-foot radius of the place at which the vendor vehicle stood or was parked.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 15, §§98C, 98D</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 77-592</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 04-854</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 14-237</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="17-31" reserved="true" />
  <section prefix="§" num="17-32" heading="Mobile vendors – Near mobile vending zones.">
    <text>A mobile vendor may not park a vendor truck within 2 blocks of a mobile vending zone.</text>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 14-237</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="17-33" heading="Mobile vendors – Near retail store.">
    <text>A mobile vendor may not park a vendor truck within 300 feet of any retail business establishment that is primarily engaged in selling the same type of food product, other merchandise, or service as that offered by the mobile vendor.</text>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 19, §§173, 174</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 69-526</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 70-708</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 04-672</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 04-854</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 14-237</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="17-34" heading="Mobile food vendors – Operating without logbook.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">A mobile vendor may not sell any food product without keeping a detailed logbook noting the vendor’s daily use of its supporting commissary.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Form of logbook.">The logbook must:<para num="(1)">be in the form the Department of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing requires; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">contain all the information required by the rules and regulations adopted under this subtitle.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Logbook to be available for inspection.">The logbook must be made available for review to any City inspector or enforcement officer upon request.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 14-237</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-124</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="17-35" heading="All Vendors – Residential areas.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">In a residential area, no street vendor may stand or park his or her vehicle:<para num="(1)">for more than 15 minutes at a given location, except as authorized by subsection (b) of this section; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">within 300 feet of any location at which the vehicle stood or parked during the preceding 48 hours.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Exception for ice cream trucks with customers.">An ice cream truck may not stand or park at a given location for more than 15 minutes unless necessary to serve immediate customers.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 14-237</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="17-36" heading="All vendors – Between midnight and 6 a.m.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a street vendor may not operate between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Exception.">Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to a street vendor operating between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m. in accordance with the terms and conditions of a special event permit from the Department of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing that explicitly grants permission to operate during those hours.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 14-237</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-124</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="17-37" heading="All vendors – Near City market.">
    <text>No street vendor may operate within 2 blocks of a City market designated in City Code &lt;cite data-path="|16|§1-2"&gt;Article 16, § 1-2 {“Scope of article”}&lt;/cite&gt;.</text>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 14-237</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="17-38" heading="All vendors – Near school or school transit stop.">
    <text>From 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., no street vendor may stand or park her or his vendor vehicle within 2 blocks of the grounds of:</text>
    <para num="(1)">any building used as a public or private kindergarten, elementary school, or secondary school; or</para>
    <para num="(2)">any public transit stop serving a kindergarten, elementary school, or secondary school.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 15, §§98B, 98D</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 77-592</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 04-854</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 14-237</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="17-39" heading="All vendors – Near farmers’ market.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a street vendor may not sell any food product, other merchandise, or service within 2 blocks of the perimeter of any farmers’ market authorized by the Commissioner of Housing and Community Development when the farmers’ market is in operation.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Exception.">Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to a street vendor who:<para num="(1)">has written permission from the farmers’ market organizer and permit holder to operate as a participating vendor of the farmers’ market; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">prominently displays documentation evidencing this permission issued in accordance with the rules and regulations adopted under this subtitle.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 19, §165A</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 84-033</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 03-595</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 04-854</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 14-237</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="17-40" reserved="true" />
</baltimore-city-law>
