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Maryland 2013 Regular Session
Commercial Law - Self-Service Storage Facilities [HB-1127]
Altering specified notice procedures required to enforce a lien on specified property stored in a leased space at a self-service storage facility; providing that a specified sale held on an online auction Web site to enforce a specified lien shall be deemed to be held at a specified location; altering the required means of delivery of specified notices; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Guy Guzzone
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 303 on 05/02/2013
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Gettr Maryland 2012 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles - Towing Practices and Procedures [SB-401]
Clarifying the application of and altering security requirements for tow trucks; altering penalties for specified violations related to tow truck vehicle registration; repealing a provision exempting abandoned vehicles from the application of provisions relating to the towing and removal of vehicles from parking lots; requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to establish and maintain a database containing addresses for specified insurers and make the database available to any tower free of charge; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Victor Ramirez
Approved By The Governor on 05/02/2012
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Maryland 2012 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Junk and Abandoned Vehicles - Penalties for Violations [HB-768]
Altering the criminal penalties for advertising for the purchase, towing, or removal of junk or abandoned vehicles without an automotive dismantler and recycler or scrap processor license; and altering the criminal penalties for and applying specified administrative penalties to violations of standards and procedures governing the disposition of specified vehicles to an automotive dismantler and recycler or scrap processor when the vehicle's certificate of title is defective, lost, or destroyed.
Sponsored by: Rep. Doyle Niemann
Unfavorable Report By Environmental Matters on 03/24/2012
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Maryland 2012 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Disposition of Vehicle to Automotive Dismantler and Recycler or [HB-499]
Repealing a provision of law that authorizes specified persons to transfer specified inoperable vehicles to an automotive dismantler and recycler or scrap processor without providing a certificate of title or fulfilling notice requirements; repealing a provision of law that authorizes an automotive dismantler and recycler or scrap processor to require specified vehicle transferors to execute an indemnity agreement; altering the notice requirements for an automotive dismantler and recycler or scrap processor; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Frush
Approved By The Governor on 05/02/2012
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Maryland 2012 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles - Towing Practices and Procedures [HB-160]
Clarifying the application of and altering security requirements for tow trucks; altering penalties for specified violations relating to tow truck vehicle registration; repealing a provision exempting abandoned vehicles from the application of provisions relating to the towing and removal of vehicles from parking lots; requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to establish and maintain a database containing addresses for specified insurers and make the database available to any tower free of charge; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Talmadge Branch
Re-referred Judicial Proceedings on 04/07/2012
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Maryland 2012 Regular Session
City of Frederick - Criminal History Records Check - Taxi Driver Applicants [HB-1438]
Authorizing the City of Frederick Police Department to request State and national criminal history records checks for taxi driver applicants in the City of Frederick from the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository; requiring the Police Department to submit sets of fingerprints of taxi driver applicants and pay specified fees to the Central Repository as part of the application for a records check; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Galen Clagett
Approved By The Governor on 05/02/2012
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Maryland 2012 Regular Session
Sales and Use Tax - Services [HB-1051]
Altering the definition of a "taxable service" under the sales and use tax to impose the tax on specified services; exempting from the sales tax the sale of a parking facility or service by a political subdivision of the State; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sheila Hixson
Hearing 3/6 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/15/2012
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Parking Violations - Administrative Enforcement by Baltimore County - Pilot [SB-938]
Authorizing Baltimore County, by ordinance, to establish an alternative enforcement program for the issuance of civil parking citations for violations of specified restrictions on the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles; requiring an ordinance adopted under the Act to provide for a specified judicial review in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County; requiring an ordinance adopted under the Act to require a specified notification to the Motor Vehicle Administration; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katherine Klausmeier
Hearing 3/23 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/08/2011
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Abandoned Vehicles - Notice [SB-780]
Altering the definition of "abandoned vehicle" to include a vehicle that has been reported stolen and has been taken into custody by a police department; and altering the time and manner for a specified notice to be sent to the owner by a police department.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Muse
Unfavorable Report By Environmental Matters on 04/07/2011
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Raymond Scott Brown II Vehicle Towing Act [SB-572]
Providing for the statewide application of specified provisions of law governing the towing or removal of vehicles from parking lots; requiring a person who undertakes the towing or removal of vehicles from parking lots to provide notice to police departments before towing or removing a vehicle from a parking lot; repealing the requirement for a tower to provide notice to specified police departments after towing a vehicle from a parking lot; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Unfavorable Report By Environmental Matters on 04/11/2011
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles - Towing Practices and Procedures [SB-570]
Providing for the statewide application of provisions of law governing the towing or removal of vehicles from parking lots; establishing a motor vehicle towing, recovery, and storage lien on a towed motor vehicle on behalf of the tower or agent; authorizing a court to enter a judgment of restitution for a specified victim under specified circumstances; prohibiting a motor vehicle towing, recovery, and storage lienor from selling the motor vehicle to which the lien is attached under specified circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Victor Ramirez
Favorable With Amendments Report By Environmental Matters on 04/09/2011
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Department of State Police - Tow Companies [HB-848]
Requiring the Department of State Police to establish and maintain a list of tow companies; authorizing the Department to adopt regulations establishing standards for tow companies to be included on the list; and requiring the Department to include qualifying companies on the list.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor on 05/10/2011
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Harford County - Towing and Removing Vehicles - Property Return Agreement [HB-830]
Prohibiting in Harford County the Harford County Sheriff's Office or any police department from authorizing a person to tow or remove a specified vehicle unless the person enters into a written agreement with the Harford County Sheriff's Office or police department to return to the owner, on request of the owner, specified property in or on the vehicle.
Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Impallaria
Unfavorable Report By Judicial Proceedings on 04/11/2011
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles - Towing Practices and Procedures [HB-356]
Providing for the statewide application of provisions of law governing the towing or removal of vehicles from parking lots; establishing a motor vehicle towing, recovery, and storage lien on a towed motor vehicle on behalf of the tower or agent for specified charges; prohibiting a motor vehicle towing, recovery, and storage lienor from selling the motor vehicle to which the lien is attached under specified circumstances; specifying the manner in which a motor vehicle towing, recovery, and storage lienor may sell a vehicle; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Healey
Senators Raskin, Frosh, And Shank on 04/07/2011
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Anne Arundel County - Towing and Removal of Vehicles from Parking Lots [HB-181]
Providing for the application to Anne Arundel County of provisions of law governing the towing and removal of vehicles from parking lots, including provisions governing signage, storage, towing and storage rates, notice, insurance and security for towers, prohibited acts, requirements for towers, and tower liability.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke
Unfavorable Report By Environmental Matters Withdrawn on 02/21/2011
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Parking Violations - Administrative Enforcement by Baltimore [HB-1265]
Authorizing Baltimore County, by ordinance, to establish an alternative enforcement program for the issuance of civil parking citations for violations of specified restrictions on the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles; requiring an ordinance adopted under the Act to provide for a specified judicial review in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County; requiring an ordinance adopted under the Act to require a specified notification to the Motor Vehicle Administration; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Unfavorable Report By Environmental Matters Withdrawn on 04/01/2011
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Maryland 2010 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles - Towing Practices and Procedures [SB-788]
Providing for the statewide application for provisions of law governing the towing or removal of vehicles from parking lots; altering specified maximum amounts that a person may charge for towing and storing a vehicle; requiring a tower to release a towed vehicle to specified persons under specified circumstances; altering specified penalties related to towing; establishing a motor vehicle towing and storage lien on a towed motor vehicle on behalf of the tower for specified towing and storage charges; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Catherine Pugh
Hearing 3/17 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/12/2010
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Maryland 2010 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Length of Vehicles - Saddle-Mount and Full-Mount Combinations [SB-66]
Providing that a specified truck tractor or unloaded truck towing one or more other truck tractors or unloaded trucks in combination may not exceed 97 feet in length.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor on 05/04/2010
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Maryland 2010 Regular Session
Raymond Scott Brown II Vehicle Towing Notification Act [SB-1054]
Requiring a person who undertakes the towing or removal of vehicles from parking lots to provide specified notice to specified police departments; altering the time frame within which a tower is required to provide notice to specified police departments after towing a vehicle from a parking lot; altering the information that a tower is required to provide to specified police departments after towing a vehicle from a parking lot; and establishing specified methods of providing the notice.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Muse
Re-referred Judicial Proceedings on 03/12/2010
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Maryland 2010 Regular Session
Harford County - Towing and Removing Vehicles [HB-654]
Establishing that a vehicle may not be towed or removed from private property in Harford County unless the owner of the property has posted specified signs and makes a request for the towing or removal of the specific vehicle; providing that a property owner may not contract with a person for the towing or removal of a vehicle under specified circumstances; requiring the owner of property in Harford County to maintain records and keep specified documentation relating to towed vehicles; limiting specified fees and charges; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Impallaria
Re-referred Judicial Proceedings on 04/10/2010