This article applies to all public parking facilities throughout the county operated under chapter 60 of this Code, to all other parking facilities owned or leased by the county primarily for public, employee, or special use parking requiring regulatory enforcement, and to privately owned parking facilities open to and used by members of the general public and regulated by a county executive traffic order as provided for in this article. Any handicap parking sign that conforms to the “Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways” and is placed on a privately owned parking facility open to and used by members of the general public is enforceable whether or not the facility is covered by a county executive traffic order.
For the purpose of this article, a privately owned public parking facility, regulated by county traffic order, will be subject to the same provisions, regulations and penalties contained in this chapter as county owned or leased public parking facilities; however, nothing herein shall prevent the parking of any vehicle on a parking facility owned by an individual, firm or association, if the permission of the individual, firm or association has been obtained.
This Article does not apply to any public street or parking lot acquired or operated under Article 29 of the Maryland Code. (1978 L.M.C., ch. 7, § 2; 1986 L.M.C., ch. 22, § 1; 2010 L.M.C., ch. 49, § 1.)