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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 2-6 Parking restrictions and 1-way streets.">
  <section prefix="§" num="2-6" heading="Parking restrictions and 1-way streets.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Basic limitations.">
      <para num="(1)">Except as provided in this section, the Director of Transportation does not have the power:<para num="(i)">to adopt rules, regulations, orders, or directives in the nature of general parking and stopping restrictions; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">to establish 1-way streets.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)">Except as provided for in this section, the power to make general parking and stopping restrictions or to establish 1-way streets is specifically reserved to the Mayor and City Council, to be exercised by ordinance.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Temporary regulation.">
      <para num="(1)">By administrative regulation, the Director may establish temporary parking and stopping restrictions, including reserved parking for disabled persons, or temporary 1-way streets.</para>
      <para num="(2)">Unless extended as provided in this section, the administrative regulation is effective for a period of not more than 6 months.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Procedure to extend regulation.">
      <para num="(1)">The Director may seek to extend the administrative regulation indefinitely or for a term of years by giving written notice of the proposed extension, not less than 30 days before the end of the 6-month period, to the President of the City Council and to each member of the City Council who represents all or part of the affected area.</para>
      <para num="(2)">If, within the 30-day period, no written objection to the extension is made and submitted to the Director by the Council President or by a member of the City Council who represents all or part of the affected area, the regulation is extended at the end of the 6-month period.</para>
      <para num="(3)">If a timely written objection is received by the Director, the Council President shall introduce a proposed ordinance setting forth the provisions of the administrative regulation and, depending on the passage or failure of the ordinance, the administrative regulation will become effective in accordance with the terms of the ordinance or be of no further force or effect.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Termination by ordinance.">At any time after an administrative regulation is adopted or extended under this section, the Mayor and City Council may enact an ordinance rescinding or modifying the administrative regulation.</para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Section not binding on future legislatures.">Nothing in this section may be construed or applied to limit the right of the Mayor and City Council by ordinance to legislate on the subject matter contained in &lt;cite data-path="|31"&gt;this article&lt;/cite&gt;.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1950, art. 38, §2(last par.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 31, §3</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 31, §3(a), (b)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 51-1678</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 70-752</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-435</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
