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It shall be unlawful for any person to enter upon a county-operated public parking facility and:
(1) Engage in any conduct, sport or activity which may jeopardize the safety or welfare of persons or property, including but not limited to riding any coasting device, bicycle or unregistered self-propelled vehicle, playing in or tampering with elevators, climbing, skating or skateboard riding, ball playing, throwing, slinging or otherwise projecting objects within or from public parking facility and sledding.
(2) Tamper with, deface or otherwise cause injury to fire equipment, parking equipment or other county property contained therein or to any automobile parked therein.
(3) Discard waste material or otherwise deposit litter on the premises.
(4) Fail to pay the prescribed parking fee to the attendant/cashier upon removing a vehicle from said facility when such facility is operated by an attendant/cashier employed by the county. (1978 L.M.C., ch. 7, § 2.)
(a) Except when authorized by written permission of the county, no person, association, business or corporation, shall cause or otherwise be responsible for a county-owned or -leased and operated public parking facility to be used for any of the following purposes:
(1) The storage of or access to refuse containers associated with the use of any adjacent property.
(2) For vehicular access to the adjacent property.
(3) For the staging of construction, maintenance or repair work to the adjacent property.
(4) For the solicitation of the general public for taxi, charity, business or political purposes or for the distribution of any handbill.
(5) For a public assembly.
(6) For the storage of equipment or materials of any kind.
(7) To perform any service, maintenance or repair on any motor vehicle parked therein except for emergency service and repair necessary for the removal of an inoperative motor vehicle.
(8) To park or store any motor vehicle left in the custody of the management of a garage, repair shop or service facility.
(9) To park or store any new or used automobile which has been transferred to an automobile dealership for the purpose of trade or sale and not registered unless the vehicles displays dealer license plates.
(10) To load or unload commercial vehicles.
(11) To cause, allow or conduct student driver training classes or instruction.
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the County Executive must establish, by regulation adopted under method (3), procedures to issue written permits for the use of County owned or leased and operated parking facilities for storage and off-street parking purposes under the following conditions:
(1) Storage or parking restricted to areas of the facility designated by the Department of Transportation.
(2) Vehicle operation and parking within such facilities fully in accordance with County regulations including the observance of posted regulations and appropriate parking meter fees.
(3) The term of such permits not to exceed one (1) year and providing not less than thirty (30) days’ notice of termination or suspension upon a finding that such action is necessary to carry out the purposes of the public parking district provisions of this Code or shorter notice upon occasion of emergency repairs, demolition or other public exigency.
(4) Establishment of a permit fee schedule sufficient, when considered with the parking meter fee, to cover the operating costs and amortized capital costs of the space involved. (1978 L.M.C., ch. 7, § 2; 1984 L.M.C., ch. 24, § 36; 1996 L.M.C., ch. 4, § 1; 2008 L.M.C., ch. 5, § 1.)
Editor’s note—2008 L.M.C., ch. 5, § 3, states: Sec. 3. Any regulation in effect when this Act takes effect that implements a function transferred to another Department or Office under Section 1 of this Act continues in effect, but any reference in any regulation to the Department from which the function was transferred must be treated as referring to the Department to which the function is transferred. The transfer of a function under this Act does not affect any right of a party to any legal proceeding begun before this Act took effect.
(a) The county executive is hereby authorized from time to time to designate, by executive order, important public parking facilities of the county, or areas thereof, as snow emergency lots which shall be marked by snow emergency lot signs.
(b) Upon the proper declaration of snow emergency as provided by law, no person shall park or cause a vehicle to remain parked on any public off-street parking facility between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. where such signs are posted. Imposition of such emergency regulations are intended for public safety reasons and to facilitate the removal of snow and ice from parking surfaces and driving aisles.
(c) No vehicle shall be parked in violation of this section.
(d) Any vehicle parked and left unattended on a snow emergency lot in violation of this section may be impounded and removed by the county or its agent, and all costs of towing, storage or impounding shall be charged to the owner of the vehicle. All such charges including the fines and penalties provided by this chapter shall be paid to the county or its duly authorized agent before the owner may reclaim the vehicle. (1978 L.M.C., ch. 7, § 2; 1984 L.M.C., ch. 24, § 36.)
(a) Any vehicle parked in violation of this article or otherwise parked so as to constitute a definite hazard to public safety or is so parked, stopped or standing so as to impede or obstruct the normal movement of traffic or pedestrians, may be impounded by members of the department of police or other authorized persons designated by the county executive.
(b) In any case involving the impoundment of a vehicle under this Section, an administrative cost set by Council resolution adopted under Section 2-57A must be charged to the owner of the vehicle, in addition to all outstanding fines and penalties assessed for violations of this Article and any towing or storage charges incurred.
(c) All such fines, penalties, costs and charges must be paid to the County before the owner may reclaim or secure the release of the vehicle. (1978 L.M.C., ch. 7, § 2; 1984 L.M.C., ch. 24, § 36; 2004 L.M.C., ch. 16, § 1; 2006 L.M.C., ch. 33, § 1.)
Editor's note—See County Attorney Opinion dated 4/7/03 citing the section in a discussion of the scope of authority for the Department of Public Works to tow vehicles from County roads and to provide roadside assistance.
2004 L.M.C., ch. 16, § 2, states in part: Any fee, charge, or fare in effect when this Act takes effect [July 22, 2004] must remain in effect until amended by Council resolution as provided in Section 2-57, as amended by Section 1 of this Act.
(a) Parking meters.
(1) The County Executive by executive order may authorize the installation, maintenance and operation of parking meters along, and limiting the time motor vehicles may park on, any street or road located in the County and on public parking facilities acquired by or leased to and operated by the County, by use of parking meters or otherwise.
(2) The Council by resolution adopted under Section 2-57A must prescribe parking meter or other fees for parking at parking facilities and on streets and roads.
(3) After the adoption of such regulations, the county may purchase, install, maintain and operate any such parking meters on all streets, highways, alleys and public parking facilities in accordance with the executive order issued under paragraph (1) of this subsection; provided that the location thereof is approved by the county executive.
(b) Enforcement. The department of police or other authorized persons designated by the county executive, or his designee, shall enforce such regulations regarding parking and parking meters.
(c) Use of fees. All parking meter and other fees or fines shall be applied first to the expense of installing, maintaining, operating and enforcing such parking meters and then to the general fund of the county unless said parking meters are within a parking lot district as provided by chapter 60 of this Code, in which case said revenues shall be applied to said district. (1978 L.M.C., ch. 7, § 2; 1984 L.M.C., ch. 24, § 36; 2004 L.M.C., ch. 16, § 1; 2006 L.M.C., ch. 33, § 1.)
Editor’s note—2004 L.M.C., ch. 16, § 2, states in part: Any fee, charge, or fare in effect when this Act takes effect [July 22, 2004] must remain in effect until amended by Council resolution as provided in Section 2-57, as amended by Section 1 of this Act.
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