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<baltimore-city-law heading="Subtitle 3 – General Prohibitions">
  <section prefix="§" num="3-1" heading="Defacing, etc., imitating, traffic devices.">
    <text>It is unlawful for any person, without lawful authority, to wilfully deface, injure, imitate, move, or interfere with any signs, standards, post, safety zone, semaphore, tower, automatic signal, or any other traffic device, or any part of them, or with any directing lines or marks painted in the roadway, or on any curb or pavement, erected by authority of the City, or any directions, lines, or marks painted by authority of the City on any pavement, curb, or roadway for the purpose of directing traffic or parking vehicles.</text>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1950, art. 38, §7(a)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 31, §5(a)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 31, §5(a)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 51-1678</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 53-786</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 57-1006</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord.75-920</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-435</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="3-2" heading="Noncompliance with traffic devices.">
    <text>It is unlawful for any person to fail, neglect, or refuse to comply with any instruction or direction on any post, standard, sign, or with any directing lines or marks painted in the roadway, or on any curb or pavement, or other device erected by authority of the City for the regulation of traffic or parking on public highways.</text>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1950, art. 38, §7(b)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 31, §5(b)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 31, §5(b)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 51-1678</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 53-786</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 57-1006</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord.75-920</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-435</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="3-3" heading="Violating rules.">
    <text>It is unlawful for any person to violate any rule, regulation, order, or direction adopted by the Director of Transportation under this subtitle.</text>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1950, art. 38, §7(c)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 31, §5(c)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 31, §5(c)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 51-1678</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 53-786</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 57-1006</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord.75-920</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-435</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="3-4" reserved="true" />
  <section prefix="§" num="3-5" heading="Penalties.">
    <text>Any person violating any of the provisions of this subtitle shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined for each and every offense not more than $100.</text>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1950, art. 38, §7(d)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 31, §5(d)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 31, §5(d)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 51-1678</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 53-786</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 57-1006</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord.75-920</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
