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<baltimore-city-law heading="Subtitle 4 – City Passenger Railways">
  <section prefix="§" num="4-1" heading="Crossing railroads at grade.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Scope of section.">The provisions hereof shall not apply to those railroad tracks where there are established safety gates nor where automatic signals are operating and indicate that the tracks may be crossed safely.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Required conduct.">
      <para num="(1)">All street railway cars and trackless trolleys shall come to a full stop before crossing at grade any track or tracks of a railroad, said full stop to be within 50 feet but not less than 10 feet from the nearest rail of such railroad.</para>
      <para num="(2)">While so stopped, the operator of every street railway car or trackless trolley shall listen and look in both directions for any approaching train, engine, or car on said tracks, and for signals indicating the approach of such train, engine or car, and shall not proceed until he can do so safely.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Penalties.">Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be subject to a fine of $5 for each and every violation.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1893, art. 41, §52</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1927, art. 89, §66</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1950, art. 29, §18</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 20, §26</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 20, §19</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 1898-186</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 51-1506</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="4-2" heading="Stops for passengers.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Required conduct.">Except where otherwise permitted or required by order of the Police Commissioner, or by ordinance, all street railway cars, trackless trolleys, and buses, when stopping to take on or discharge passengers at street or road crossings, shall stop on the near side of such crossings.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Penalties.">All owners and operators of vehicles failing to comply with any of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a fine of not less than $10 or more than $50 for each and every offense.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1927, art. 39, §§66, 67</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1950, art. 29, §§19, 20</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 20, §§27, 28</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 20, §§20, 21</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 1894-104</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 51-1506</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="4-3" heading="Crossing streets.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Required conduct.">When approaching and crossing any intersecting public highway or private street, the person operating a street car:<para num="(1)">must have the same under control and must regulate the speed of said car according to what is reasonable and proper in view of the circumstances, surroundings, and location; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">in crossing any such street or intersecting public highway or private street in the thickly congested or business parts of the City, such street car shall not be operated at a rate of speed exceeding 15 miles an hour.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Penalties.">For each and every violation of this section, the offender upon conviction thereof, shall be liable to a fine of $5 and costs, to be recovered as other fines and costs for violation of ordinances and resolutions of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are now recovered.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1893, art. 41, §54</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1927, art. 39, §§69, 70</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1950, art. 29, §§21, 22</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 20, §§29, 30</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 20, §§22, 23</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 1893-157</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 21-592</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="4-4" heading="Operating under the influence.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Prohibited conduct.">It shall be unlawful for any person who is under the influence of intoxicating liquor or narcotic drugs to operate, or attempt to operate a street railway car in the City of Baltimore.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Penalties.">Any person violating the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment for not less than 30 days nor more than 6 months, or by fine of not less than $100 nor more than $500, or by both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the Court.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1950, art. 29, §23</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 20, §31</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 20, §24</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 46-337</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="4-5" heading="Interference with facilities.">
    <text>It shall not be lawful for any unauthorized person or persons, whether passengers or otherwise, to intentionally pull or otherwise interfere with the trolley or trolley-rope so that the trolley wheel shall be pulled from the overhead trolley-wire, or to apply or put on the brakes of any electric street railway car within the limits of the City of Baltimore, under a penalty of not less than $5, nor more than $20, to be recovered as other fines and penalties are now recoverable.</text>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1927, art. 39, §71</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1950, art. 29, §24</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 20, §32</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 20, §25</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 1899-008</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
