(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; , § 1.)
Editor’s note—, § 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.
