Traffic Regulation
Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Baltimore County - Regulation of Parking on York Road [HB-292]
Prohibiting Baltimore County from placing or maintaining a traffic control device that regulates parking on a specified portion of York Road in the county unless the county provides, to the general public and each member of the General Assembly and County Council who represents the regulated area or area proposed to be regulated, notice and an opportunity to address the issue at a public hearing; providing for the application of the Act; etc.
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Vehicle Laws - Speed Monitoring Systems - Quarterly Audits [HB-271]
Requiring a local jurisdiction to obtain a quarterly audit of its speed monitoring systems conducted by a qualified independent person; and requiring the results of the audit to be kept on file and admitted as evidence in a specified proceeding.
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Maximum Speed Limits on Highways [HB-194]
Increasing from 65 miles an hour to 70 miles an hour the maximum speed limit that may be established on specified highways in the State.
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Criminal Procedure - Warrantless Arrests - Assault on Baltimore City Special Enforcement Officer [HB-133]
Expanding the authority of a police officer without a warrant to arrest a person suspected of committing a specified assault against a specified Baltimore City special parking enforcement officer or special traffic enforcement officer engaged in the performance of the officer's official duties.
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Public Safety - Fire Police - Cecil County [HB-1219]
Authorizing a specified commanding officer to designate to the Sheriff of Cecil County up to 20 individuals who are members of fire or ambulance companies to serve as fire police in Cecil County; authorizing the Sheriff of Cecil County to appoint specified individuals to serve as fire police in Cecil County; providing that specified powers are granted to individuals appointed to serve as fire police in Cecil County; etc.
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Speed Monitoring Systems - Local Designees - Hearing and Approval [HB-1086]
Making a local jurisdiction's designation of an official or employee to investigate and respond to questions or concerns about the local jurisdiction's speed monitoring system program subject to the approval of the governing body of the local jurisdiction following a public hearing.
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Speed Monitoring, Work Zone Speed Control, and Traffic Control Signal Monitoring Systems - Repeal [HB-1038]
Repealing the authority to use work zone speed control systems to enforce specified highway speed laws within work zones; requiring the publishers of the Annotated code of Maryland in consultation with and subject to the approval of the Department of Legislative Services, to correct any references throughout the Annotated Code that are rendered incorrect by the Act; etc.
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
School Vehicles - Right Turn on Red - Prohibition [HB-1025]
Repealing specified authority of a school vehicle to make a right turn, or a left turn from a one-way street onto a one-way street, after stopping at a steady red signal.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Rules of the Road - Authorized Turns on Red After Yielding [SB-834]
Creating an exception for specified authorized turns to the requirement that vehicular traffic facing a steady circular red signal stop at the near side of the intersection at specified points; and authorizing vehicular traffic facing a steady red signal to cautiously enter the intersection and make a right turn after yielding to any traffic coming from the left or a left turn from a one-way street onto another one-way street after yielding to any traffic coming from the right.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Bicycles and Motor Scooters - Rules of the Road [SB-808]
Specifying that every person operating a bicycle or a motor scooter in a public bicycle area is subject only to the duties required of the driver of a vehicle under specified rules of the road; requiring that every person operating a bicycle or a motor scooter in a public bicycle area watch for other vehicles in the public bicycle area; and requiring the driver of a vehicle to watch for bicycles on specified highways and bicycle ways.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Maryland Transportation Authority - Electronic Toll Collection - Procedures [SB-697]
Increasing the period of time during which a person who receives a notice of toll due must pay a video toll; requiring a notice of toll due to be mailed separately for each individual video toll incurred in an envelope marked in a specified manner; increasing the period of time during which a person who receives a notice of toll due may assert specified statutory defenses; etc.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Public Safety - Highway Work Zones - Off-Duty Law Enforcement Officers Required [SB-677]
Requiring the State Highway Administration to require a contractor or other person that requires a work zone to be established on a highway to retain, under specified circumstances, an off-duty law enforcement officer to perform specified services in the work zone; etc.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles - Speed Monitoring Systems - Local Jurisdictions [SB-652]
Altering the standards and requirements for the required warning period for violations recorded by speed monitoring systems; establishing that speed monitoring systems placed in specified areas may be placed only on highways with a specified minimum speed limit; applying notice and signage standards for unmanned local stationary speed monitoring systems to all local speed monitoring systems; requiring local jurisdictions to designate specified persons to act in a liaison capacity; etc.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles - Checkpoints - Prohibition on Targeting Motorcycles [SB-640]
Prohibiting a police officer at a motor vehicle checkpoint from targeting only motorcycles for inspection or evaluation; creating a specified exception to the prohibition for a police officer at a motor vehicle checkpoint established as part of a police search or investigation; providing for the construction of a provision of law governing obedience to a lawful order or direction of a police officer; etc.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Calvert County - Alcoholic Beverages - Special Event (Festival) Beer, Wine and Liquor Permit [SB-548]
Establishing in Calvert County a special event (festival) beer, wine and liquor (on-sale) permit; specifying the type of license holder to which the Board of License Commissioners may issue the permit, subject to specified limitations; requiring an applicant to demonstrate a reasonable expectation of attendance at the special event of at least 750 patrons; specifying a permit fee of $100; etc.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Bicycles and Motor Scooters - Operation on Roadways [SB-520]
Creating an exception to the prohibition against a person operating a bicycle or a motor scooter on a roadway where the posted maximum speed limit exceeds 50 miles an hour; and authorizing a person who is lawfully operating a bicycle or a motor scooter on a shoulder adjacent to a roadway for which the posted maximum speed limit exceeds 50 miles an hour to enter the roadway only if making or attempting to make a left turn, crossing through an intersection, or the shoulder is overlaid with specified directional markings.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Intercounty Connector - Maximum Speed Limit [SB-429]
Increasing to 65 miles an hour the maximum speed limit on the Intercounty Connector.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Speed Monitoring Systems Reform Act of 2014 [SB-350]
Altering the standards and requirements for the required warning period for violations recorded by speed monitoring systems; applying notice and signage standards for unmanned local stationary speed monitoring systems to all local speed monitoring systems; requiring the Maryland Police Training Commission to compile and make publicly available on or before December 31 of each year a report containing specified information on each local speed monitoring system program; etc.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Operation of Vehicle When Approaching a Tow Truck [SB-3]
Requiring drivers approaching properly registered tow trucks that are stopped, standing, or parked on a highway and using specified visual signals, unless otherwise directed by a police officer or traffic control device, to change lanes into an available lane not immediately adjacent to the tow truck under specified circumstances, or to slow to a reasonable and prudent speed that is safe for existing weather, road, and vehicular or pedestrian traffic conditions.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Criminal Law - Assault on Baltimore City Special Enforcement Officer - Prohibition [SB-264]
Prohibiting a person from intentionally causing physical injury to another if the person knows or has reason to know that the other is a specified Baltimore City special parking enforcement officer or special traffic enforcement officer engaged in the performance of the officer's official duties; and establishing penalties for a violation of the Act.