Section 18-2418. MISCELLANEOUS NON-MOVING VIOLATIONS

 

2418.1No persons driving or in charge of a motor vehicle shall permit it to stand unattended without first stopping the engine, locking the ignition, removing the key, and effectively setting the brake.

 

2418.2In addition to the requirements of § 2418.1, whenever a motor vehicle is standing on a grade, the driver or person in charge of the vehicle shall not permit it to stand unattended without first turning the front wheels to the curb or side of the highway.

 

2418.3No person owning, operating, or having control over the engine of a gasoline or diesel powered motor vehicle on public or private space, including the engine of a public vehicles for hire, buses with a seating capacity of twelve (12) or more persons, and school buses or any vehicle transporting students, shall allow that engine to idle for more than three (3) minutes while the motor vehicle is parked, stopped, or standing, including for the purpose of operating air conditioning equipment in those vehicles, except as follows:

 

(a)To operate private passenger vehicles;

 

(b)To operate power takeoff equipment, including dumping, cement mixers, refrigeration systems, content delivery, winches, or shredders; or

 

(c)To idle the engine for no more than five (5) minutes to operate heating equipment when the ambient air temperature is thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit (32° F) or below.

 

2418.4No person shall throw or deposit upon any street, highway, sidewalk, or alley, any glass bottle, glass, nails, tacks, wire, cans, or any other substance likely to injure any person, animal, or vehicle upon the street, highway, sidewalk, or alleyway.

 

2418.5Any person who drops, or permits to be dropped or thrown, upon any street, highway, sidewalk, or alley, any destructive or injurious material, shall immediately remove the same or cause it to be removed.

 

2418.6Any person removing a wrecked or damaged vehicle from a street, highway, sidewalk, or alley shall remove any glass or other injurious substance dropped upon the street, highway, sidewalk, or alley from the vehicle.

 

2418.7A horse shall not be left unbridled or unattended in a street or unenclosed space, public or private, without being securely fastened or unless harnessed to a vehicle with wheels so secured as to prevent its being dragged faster than a walk.

 

2418.8No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle on a street that has been designated a play street or closed to vehicular traffic except as specifically directed to do so by a police officer or other law enforcement or public safety official or by an official traffic control device.

 

 

authority

Sections 5(3)(D) (allocating and regulating on-street parking and curb regulations) and 6(c) (transferring to the Department the authority and function to make traffic rules and regulations previously delegated to the Department of Public Works under Section IV(A) of the Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1983, the Department of Transportation under Section IV(G) of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1975, and the Director of Highways and Traffic under Commissioner Order No. 68-554) of the Department of Transportation Establishment Act of 2002, effective May 21, 2002 (D.C. Law 14-137; D.C. Official Code §§ 50-921.04(3)(D) and 50-921.05(c) (2014 Repl.)).

source

Commissioners’ Order 274, 310/949, effective September 1, 1949; 17 DCRR §§ 98, 99.1, 103(a)-(c), 114(a) (October 19, 1970); as amended by the Motor Vehicle Excessive Idling Fine Increase Amendment Act of 1999, effective October 7, 1999 (D.C. Law 13-035; 46 DCR 6017 (July 23, 1999)); as amended by the Healthy Schools Act of 2010, effective July 27, 2010 (D.C. Law 18-209; 57 DCR 7548 (August 20, 2010)); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 62 DCR 14092 (October 30, 2015).