Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or official traffic-control device, a person must not:
(a) Stop, stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not:
(1) In any manner on a public highway which impedes the movement of traffic or constitutes a threat to public safety.
(3) Within an intersection.
(5) Alongside any street excavation, obstruction or barricade or opposite any street excavation, obstruction or barricade, when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic.
(6) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel.
(7) On any ramp entering on or exiting from, any highway with two (2) or more traffic lanes moving in the same direction.
(8) On any property owned or leased by the board of education of Montgomery County or Montgomery College where an official sign prohibits such parking.
(9) In any place an official sign prohibits parking during specific a.m. or p.m. peak traffic periods.
(10) Between a sidewalk or roadway curb and the property edge of a public street or highway, except in an emergency.
(b) Stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers:
(1) Within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant.
(2) Within twenty (20) feet of any crosswalk whether at an intersection or not, when such crosswalk is marked off by painted lines.
(3) Within thirty (30) feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop sign, yield sign or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway.
(4) Within twenty (20) feet of the driveway entrance to any fire or rescue station or on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire or rescue station, within seventy-five (75) feet of said entrance, when proper sign is posted.
(5) At any place an official sign prohibits standing.
(6) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street.
(7) In any fire lane when posted by official sign or proper markings.
(8) In the area immediately in front of theaters where designated by official signs.
(9) With one (1) or more of the side wheels more than twelve (12) inches from the curb.
(10) In a direction other than the flow of traffic.
(11) So as to prevent another vehicle already stopped near the curb or otherwise legally parked, from moving away.
(12) Not wholly within a designated parking space, or within two (2) feet of the front or rear bumper of another vehicle parked at or parallel to the curb.
(13) In a bus stop when properly posted.
(14) In a taxi stand when properly posted by official signs.
(c) Park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily, for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers:
(1) Within fifty (50) feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing.
(2) At any place an official sign prohibits parking. (1978 L.M.C., ch. 7, § 2; , § 1.)
Editor’s note—See County Attorney Opinion dated indicating that long-term parking on public streets is prohibited in certain circumstances, but not based on the size of the vehicle.
