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<baltimore-city-law heading="Part 5 – Commercial Vehicles and Trailers">
  <section prefix="§" num="6-26" heading="Commercial vehicles.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Stopping by residence.">
      <para num="(1)">Except as otherwise specified in this section, no vehicle of Federal Highway Administration Class 6 or higher and no commercial vehicle may park, stand, or stop longer than 1 hour continuously on any street, lane, or alley in front of or adjacent to any property used or intended to be used as a residence.</para>
      <para num="(2)">This subsection does not apply to a commercial vehicle that is parked for the purpose of doing any public or private work for or on behalf of any person located within a radius of 1 block from the property used or intended to be used as a residence.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Nighttime hours.">Except as otherwise specified in this section, no commercial vehicle may park, stand, or stop between the hours of 1 a.m. and 7 a.m. on any street, lane, or alley of the City.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Exceptions.">This section does not apply to:<para num="(1)">vehicles of the Police Department or the Fire Department;</para>
      <para num="(2)">emergency vehicles belonging to:<para num="(i)">the City;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">any public utility; or</para>
        <para num="(iii)">any volunteer ambulance service;</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(3)">private passenger vehicles, including automobiles, minivans, passenger vans, station wagons, and sport utility vehicles unless there is a trailer attached;</para>
      <para num="(4)">pickup trucks, unless the pickup truck has a trailer attached;</para>
      <para num="(5)">panel-body delivery trucks with less than 1,500 pounds (3/4 of a ton) manufacturer’s rating capacity, unless the panel-body delivery truck has a trailer attached; or</para>
      <para num="(6)">a vehicle engaged in loading as defined in &lt;cite data-doc="City of Balt., Md., Ord. 26-107" data-path="|31|§1-1|(q)"&gt;§ 1-1(q)&lt;/cite&gt; of this article.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1950, art. 38, §90</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 31, §124</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 31, §83</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 48-232</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 48-378</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 88-136</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 03-591</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 11-506</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 11-507</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 13-092</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-349</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 20-397</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="6-27" reserved="true">
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 31, §84A</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 79-986</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 03-591</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 04-672</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="6-28" heading="Vendor trucks.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Definitions.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">In this section, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Mobile vendor.">“Mobile vendor” has the meaning stated in &lt;cite data-path="|15|§17-1"&gt;Article 15, § 17-1 {“Definitions”}&lt;/cite&gt;.</para>
      <para num="(3)" heading="Vendor truck.">“Vendor truck” has the meaning stated in &lt;cite data-path="|15|§17-1"&gt;Article 15, § 17-1 {“Definitions”}&lt;/cite&gt;.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="No parking in prohibited areas.">A mobile vendor may not park a vendor truck within 2 blocks in any direction of:<para num="(1)">a mobile vending zone;</para>
      <para num="(2)">a City market designated in &lt;cite data-path="|16|§1-2"&gt;Article 16, § 1-2 {“Scope of article”}&lt;/cite&gt;;</para>
      <para num="(3)">the grounds of any building used as a public or private kindergarten, elementary school, or secondary school; or</para>
      <para num="(4)">the perimeter of any farmers’ market authorized by the Commissioner of Housing and Community Development when the farmers’ market is in operation, unless the vendor truck prominently displays a document issued in accordance with the rules and regulations adopted under &lt;cite data-path="|15|§17-4"&gt;Article 15, § 17-4 {“Rules and Regulations”}&lt;/cite&gt; that permits a waiver from this paragraph.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 14-237</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 14-307</annotation>
    <annotation type="Editor's Notes">This section was added by Ordinance 14-237, in conjunction with that Ordinance’s comprehensive revision of &lt;cite data-path="|15"&gt;Article 15&lt;/cite&gt;, Subtitle 17 {“Street Vendors”}.  In accordance with Section 4 of Ord. 14-237, the effective date of the section is February 28, 2015, the 30th day after the General Services Department filed its rules and regulations under revised Art. 15, § 17-4.</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="6-29" heading="Camping trailers, mobile homes,  motor homes, and travel trailers.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Definitions.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">In this section, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Camping trailer.">“Camping trailer” has the meaning stated in &lt;cite data-doc="Md. Code" data-path="gtr|11-106"&gt;State Transportation Article, § 11-106 &lt;/cite&gt;{“Camping trailer”}.</para>
      <para num="(3)" heading="Mobile home.">“Mobile home” has the meaning stated in &lt;cite data-doc="Md. Code" data-path="gtr|11-134"&gt;State Transportation Article,  § 11-134 &lt;/cite&gt;{“Mobile home”}.</para>
      <para num="(4)" heading="Motor home.">“Motor home” has the meaning stated in &lt;cite data-doc="Md. Code" data-path="gtr|11-134"&gt;State Transportation Article,  § 11-134&lt;/cite&gt;.3 {“Motor home”}.</para>
      <para num="(5)" heading="Travel trailer.">“Travel trailer” has the meaning stated in &lt;cite data-doc="Md. Code" data-path="gtr|11-170"&gt;State Transportation Article,  § 11-170 &lt;/cite&gt;{“Travel trailer”}.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Stopping by residence.">Except as otherwise specified in this section, no camping trailer, mobile home,  motor home, or travel trailer may park, stand, or stop longer than 1 hour continuously on any street, lane, or alley in front of, across from, or adjacent to any property used or intended to be used as a residence.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Exceptions.">This section does not apply to:<para num="(1)">vehicles of the Police Department or the Fire Department; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">emergency vehicles belonging to:<para num="(i)">the City;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">any public utility; or</para>
        <para num="(iii)">any volunteer ambulance service.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-508</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="6-30" reserved="true" />
</baltimore-city-law>
