# Subtitle 6 – Carriages, Wagons, Boats, and Scows

Current through 2026-07-17. Source: City of Balt., Md., Ord. 26-129. Published by the Baltimore City Department of Legislative Reference.

## § 6-1 Issuance of license.

Balt., Md., Code art. 15, § 6-1 (2026)

The Director of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing shall issue all licenses for and numbers of carriages, wagons, and other vehicles, boats, and scows as enumerated in § 6-2.

*History: Rev. Ords. 1858-009*

*History: Ord. 66-887*

*History: Ord. 75-881*

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## § 6-2 License required.

Balt., Md., Code art. 15, § 6-2 (2026)

(a) All hackney coaches, buggies, cabs, and gigs, kept for hire, and all wagons, furniture carriages, carts, drays, package carts, boats (other than open rowboats of every description), and scows, owned or commonly used or employed in the City, shall be numbered with plain conspicuous figures, on plates of tin, to be provided as hereinafter directed, to begin with number 1 and so on progressively.

(b) The owner or owners of such carriages, boats, or scows, shall:

  (1) appear annually at the office of the Director of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing;

  (2) have entered in a book kept for that purpose:

    (i) the name and place of abode;

    (ii) the description of every carriage, boat, or scow owned by the owner or owners; and

    (iii) the number thereon to be affixed; and

  (3) take out a license containing his or her number, and signed by the Director of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing, with the City Seal affixed to it.

(c) No owner is permitted to use or employ, or let for hire on any street, lane, or alley, nor in any water within the City, any hackney coach, buggy, cab, or gig, kept for hire, wagon, furniture carriage, cart, dray, package cart, boat (other than an open rowboat), or scow, until he or she first complies with the regulations contained in this subtitle.

*History: Ord. 1891-022*

*History: Ord. 66-887*

*History: Ord. 75-881*

*History: Ord. 99-526*

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## § 6-3 “Commonly used or employed” defined.

Balt., Md., Code art. 15, § 6-3 (2026)

Any vehicle mentioned in § 6-2 which is used upon the streets of Baltimore City upon more than 1 day per week, on an average, for a period of more than 3 months in any 1 year, shall be considered as “commonly used or employed”, in the City, within the meaning of said § 6-2.

*History: Ord. 17-243*

*History: Ord. 66-887*

*History: Ord. 75-881*

## § 6-4 Term of licenses.

Balt., Md., Code art. 15, § 6-4 (2026)

All licenses shall terminate on January 1 annually, but the holder of a license can at any time between that time and the January 30 take out a new license without being subject to penalty.

*History: Ord. 1891-022*

*History: Ord. 66-887*

*History: Ord. 75-881*

## § 6-5 Fees.

Balt., Md., Code art. 15, § 6-5 (2026)

(a) The owner of any carriage, boat, or scow shall pay the following annual license fee:

  (1) Hackney coaches, cabs, or other pleasure carriages kept for hire, and wagons, carts, or other carriages of burden drawn by 1 or more horses — $20

  (2) Boats (other than open rowboats), water taxis, and scows — $80

  (3) Package carts — $10

(b) The owners shall pay the fees to the Director of Finance.

(c) Transfer of any of these licenses must be made at the Department of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing Collector, and no charge will be made therefor.

*History: Ord. 1891-022*

*History: Ord. 57-1115*

*History: Ord. 66-887*

*History: Ord. 70-855*

*History: Ord. 75-881*

*History: Ord. 77-397*

*History: Ord. 90-523*

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## § 6-6 Rental records — in general.

Balt., Md., Code art. 15, § 6-6 (2026)

(a) No owner licensed as provided in <cite data-path="|15|§6-2">§ 6-2 of this subtitle</cite> shall rent a vehicle to any person without first requiring proof of the identity (which shall include a clear photograph and a record of fingerprints) and address of the person proposing to rent the vehicle.

(b) Said owner shall keep a permanent record on his premises of the names and addresses of all persons renting a vehicle or vehicles from him and the date of each rental.

*History: Ord. 60-430*

*History: Ord. 75-881*

## § 6-7

Balt., Md., Code art. 15, § 6-7 (2026)

Reserved

## § 6-8 License plates.

Balt., Md., Code art. 15, § 6-8 (2026)

(a)

  (1) It is the duty of the Director of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing, annually, on or before January 1 in each year, to purchase a sufficient number of tin plates, numbered with plain conspicuous figures, beginning with number 1, and so on progressively, 2 of each to correspond with the number of the carriage, boat, or scow, and also to purchase suitable dies for the arithmetical numbers.

  (2) The figures standing for the year in which those numbers were issued shall be stamped on the top of each numbered plate.

  (3) The plate shall be of suitable size and description in the discretion of the Director of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing, and paid for out of the appropriation for general licenses.

(b)

  (1) It is the duty of the Director of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing to furnish for each licensed carriage, boat, or scow, 2 of these tin plates, with number corresponding with the number of the license, and the record of that carriage, boat, or scow.

  (2) These numbered plates shall be fastened on each side of and the most conspicuous part of the carriage, boat, or scow, so that the numbers may be plainly seen.

(c) The Director of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing shall furnish to those who take out private carriage licenses, a single number, painted upon a tin plate that shall not measure more than 2¾ x 2 inches, which number shall be placed upon the hindermost part of the hind axle of the carriage by the owner or owners.

*History: Rev. Ords. 1858-032*

*History: Ord. 1891-022*

*History: Ord. 66-887*

*History: Ord. 75-881*

*History: Ord. 99-526*

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## § 6-9 License numbers.

Balt., Md., Code art. 15, § 6-9 (2026)

(a) All persons who take out licenses under this subtitle are hereby authorized to provide numbers for their carriages, wagons, and other vehicles, of such design as to them may seem proper, such numbers to conform with their license, the same to be in a conspicuous place; provided, that the number furnished by the Director of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing be nevertheless attached to such carriage or wagon in such place inside the carriage or wagon as he may direct.

(b) All persons availing themselves of the privilege of this section can retain the same number from year to year by annual notice of the Director of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing previous to December 20 and those desiring to retain their old numbers may do so by similar notice.

*History: Rev. Ords. 1858-032*

*History: Ord. 1891-022*

*History: Ord. 66-887*

*History: Ord. 75-881*

*History: *

## § 6-10 False entries.

Balt., Md., Code art. 15, § 6-10 (2026)

No person may:

(1) cause or procure a false entry to be made of any such carriage, boat, or scow;

(2) after a true entry, alter the number of his carriage, boat, or scow, being registered; or

(3) not having a license, permit a number to be fixed to or remain on his or her carriage, boat, or scow.

*History: Rev. Ords. 1858-032*

*History: Ord. 66-887*

*History: Ord. 75-887*

*History: Ord. 99-526*

## § 6-11 Transporters for hire.

Balt., Md., Code art. 15, § 6-11 (2026)

(a) No owner of any carriage shall use the same in carrying or transporting any person or persons within the said City for hire or pay, unless such owner shall:

  (1) appear at the Department of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing and make entry and take out license as aforesaid;

  (2) number such carriage on the middle panel or other conspicuous place, of each side, with plain and conspicuous figures; and

  (3) the same renew annually.

(b) Such owner shall be subject to all the other rules and regulations herein contained, respecting wagoners, carters, and draymen, and shall be liable to the same forfeitures and penalties upon the noncompliance with or violation of any such rule or regulation.

*History: Rev. Ords. 1858-032*

*History: Ord. 66-887*

*History: Ord. 75-881*

*History: *

## § 6-12 Numbers and licenses.

Balt., Md., Code art. 15, § 6-12 (2026)

It is unlawful for the owner or owners of any carriage, wagon, cart, dray, package cart, furniture wagon, boat, or scow to retain or suffer to be placed on that vehicle any other number than one corresponding with the license for the vehicle.

*History: Rev. Ords. 1858-032*

*History: Ord. 66-887*

*History: Ord. 75-881*

*History: Ord. 99-526*

## § 6-13 Withdrawal of license.

Balt., Md., Code art. 15, § 6-13 (2026)

It shall be the duty of the Director of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing to withdraw the license from any vehicle licensed by the City, the driver of which shall violate a 2<sup>nd</sup> time any of the provisions of this Code regulating the speed of horses and vehicles.

*History: Rev. Ords. 1858-032*

*History: Ord. 66-887*

*History: Ord. 75-881*

*History: *

## § 6-14 Subtitle to be advertised.

Balt., Md., Code art. 15, § 6-14 (2026)

It shall be the duty of the Director of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing to notify all persons annually of the necessity of attending to the provisions of this subtitle, by advertising the same at least 10 days previous to January 1 in a daily paper of general circulation in Baltimore City, and of the privilege accorded by § 6-9 by advertising the same at least 5 days previous to December 20 in a daily paper of the City.

*History: Rev. Ords. 1858-032*

*History: Ord. 1891-022*

*History: Ord. 66-887*

*History: Ord. 75-881*

*History: *