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COUNTY LOCAL LAWS

time expired or beyond the duration of the parking meter, to
prohibit the parking of a vehicle in such a manner as to
cause the vehicle to extend three feet in front of or behind
the parking meter, to prohibit more than one vehicle per
space except motorcycles, to permit more than one motorcycle
to occupy a parking metered space, to prohibit taxicabs from
accepting or soliciting passengers from parking meter
spaces, to permit the use of parking meter spaces without
charge, by commercial vehicles when loading or unloading,
and commercial vehicles and public utility vehicles to
occupy such spaces without charge when engaged in work
within the highway right-of-way, to permit public service
vehicles to occupy such spaces without charge when engaged
in official business, to prohibit the use of slugs in
parking meters, the defacing, injuring or tampering with
parking meters, and to permit the impoundment of a vehicle
which remains parked illegally after thirty minutes; to
enact Article VI, title "Parking, Special Provisions", to
provide parking privileges for disabled persons and parking
permit areas; to enact Article VII, title "Administration,
Enforcement, Penalties and Collection", to establish
authority of the County Executive to administer and enforce
the provisions of this Chapter and to establish and collect
fines, to describe the duties and responsibilities of the
Department of Finance, to establish authority of parking
enforcement officers, to require police officers and other
authorized persons to issue notices of violation and report
same, to require that fines be charged uniformly and
consistently, to require fines to be paid within 15 days, to
provide a penalty in addition to fine for failure to pay, to
provide a dishonored check charge for payments returned as
uncollectible, to provide that failure to pay a fine is a
misdemeanor and that the owner of the vehicle may be
arrested or summonsed to court, to provide for an
evidentiary presumption that the registered owner of a
vehicle involved in a violation of this Chapter is the
violator so charged, to provide that motor vehicle renters
and other registered owners, together with any customer or
operator who rents or leases a motor vehicle from them be
jointly and severally liable for violations; to provide for
the issuance of a summons to appear in court to any person
violating the provisions of the Chapter, to permit the
impoundment or immobilization of any vehicle subject to
three or more outstanding past due violations and the sale
of impounded vehicles, etc., and to provide for penalties
generally.

Approved October 17, 1977.

Bill No. 27-77

Chapter 8

AN ACT to amend Chapter 52, title "Taxation", of the
Montgomery County Code 1972, as amended, by repealing and