# COMAR Title 11 — Department of Transportation

## Subtitle 04 — State Highway Administration

### Chapter 12 — Local Delivery Truck Routes

**Authority:** Transportation Article, §§24-104.2, 24-203, and 24-209, Annotated Code of Maryland

**Administrative History:** Effective date:

**Administrative History:** Regulations .01—.04 adopted as an emergency provision effective June 29, 1995 (22:15 Md. R. 1116); adopted permanently effective October 9, 1995 (22:20 Md. R. 1544)

#### Regulation .01 Purpose.

*COMAR 11.04.12.01*

The purpose of these regulations is to specify certain highway segments for use as access routes for local deliveries and to establish guidelines for their use in order to ensure public safety, to preserve the highways, and to minimize truck traffic in certain residential and school areas.

#### Regulation .02 Definitions.

*COMAR 11.04.12.02*

A. In this chapter, the following terms have the meanings indicated.

B. Terms Defined.

  (1) “Administration” means the State Highway Administration.

  (2) “Local delivery truck route” means a four-lane divided State highway designated by the Administration as a route which may be used for local deliveries by trucks not exceeding the limitations set forth in Transportation Article, §§13-919, 24-102, 24-104, 24-104.1, 24-104.2, 24-108, and 24-109, Annotated Code of Maryland.

#### Regulation .03 Designation of Route.

*COMAR 11.04.12.03*

U.S. Route 40 from Maryland Route 279 in Cecil County to Maryland Route 152 in Harford County is a designated local delivery truck route.

#### Regulation .04 Access.

*COMAR 11.04.12.04*

Access from a route designated in Regulation .03 of this chapter for points of origin and destination of cargo shall be by the shortest practical route between the designated route and the points of origin and destination of cargo.