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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 22-1 Definitions.">
  <section prefix="§" num="22-1" heading="Definitions.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">In this subtitle, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Director.">“Director” means the City Director of Finance.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Facilitator.">“Facilitator” means a business entity that makes parking spaces in the City available for use by a person through an online, mobile, or other third-party booking platform:<para num="(1)">for a certain amount of time; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">for a fee.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Garage.">“Garage” means any structure or part of a structure for the parking of 3 or more motor vehicles in exchange for a fee or other consideration.</para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Motor Vehicle.">“Motor vehicle” means:<para num="(1)">any self-propelled vehicle; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">any other vehicle required to be registered under the laws of this State or of any other state.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(f)" heading="Operator.">“Operator” means any person who controls, conducts, or operates a parking lot or garage.</para>
    <para num="(g)" heading="Parking.">“Parking” means any parking, storing, housing, or keeping of a motor vehicle, whether self-service, valet-service, long-term, short-term, ticketed metered, through coordination with a facilitator, for special events only, or otherwise.</para>
    <para num="(h)" heading="Parking lot.">“Parking lot” means any outdoor area or space for the parking of 3 or more motor vehicles in exchange for a fee or other consideration.</para>
    <para num="(i)" heading="Person.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Person” has the meaning stated in &lt;cite data-path="|general|§1-107|(a)"&gt;§ 1-107(a) {“Person: In general”}&lt;/cite&gt; of the City Code’s &lt;cite data-path="|general"&gt;General Provisions Article&lt;/cite&gt;.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Inclusion of governmental entities.">Notwithstanding &lt;cite data-path="|general|§1-107|(b)"&gt;§ 1-107(b) {“Person: Exclusion”}&lt;/cite&gt; of the &lt;cite data-path="|general"&gt;General Provisions Article&lt;/cite&gt;, in this subtitle “person” also includes a governmental entity or an instrumentality or unit of a governmental entity.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(j)" heading="Transaction.">“Transaction” means the parking of a motor vehicle on a parking lot or in a garage in exchange for a fee or other consideration.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 28, §73(a)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 68-146</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 89-318</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 01-271</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 11-572</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-125</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
