5123363 Transportation, District Department of - Notice of Final Rulemaking -Extending Current Visitor Permit Parking Program to December 31, 2014

DISTRICT DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

 

NOTICE OF FINAL RULEMAKING

 

The Director of the District Department of Transportation (DDOT), pursuant to the authority in Sections 4(5)(A) (assigning authority to coordinate and manage public space permits and records to the Department Director), 5(3)(D)(i) and (iii) (allocating and regulating on-street parking), and 5(4)(A) (assigning duty to review and approve public space permit requests to the Department Director) of the Department of Transportation Establishment Act of 2002 (“DDOT Establishment Act”), effective May 21, 2002 (D.C. Law 14-137; D.C. Official Code §§ 50-921.03(5)(A), 50-921.04(3)(D)(i) and (iii),  and 50-921.04(4)(A)) (2012 Repl.)), and Sections 6(a)(6) and 6(b), of the District of Columbia Traffic Act, approved March 3, 1925 (43 Stat. 1121; D.C. Official Code §§ 50-2201.03 (a)(6), and (b) (2012 Repl.)), hereby gives notice of the adoption of rules that amend Chapter 24 (Stopping, Standing, Parking, and Other Non-Moving Violations) of Title 18 (Vehicles and Traffic) of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (DCMR).

 

The rules extend the current annual visitor parking permit (VPP) program until December 31, 2014 for each household with a VPP pass or eligible to receive a VPP pass.  The Director has published a separate rulemaking for public comment detailing a new permanent annual VPP program DDOT plans to implement.

 

A Notice of Emergency and Proposed Rulemaking was published in the D.C. Register on August 1, 2014 at 61 DCR 7903.  No comments were received and no changes were made to the proposed rulemaking.

 

DDOT adopted the rules as final on October 10, 2014.  The rules will go into effect upon the date of publication of this Notice of Final Rulemaking in the D.C. Register. 

 

Title 18, VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC, of the DCMR is amended as follows:

 

Chapter 24, STOPPING, STANDING, PARKING, AND OTHER NON-MOVING VIOLATIONS, is amended as follows:

 

Section 2414, VISITOR OR TEMPORARY PERMITS, is amended as follows:

 

Subsection 2414.11 is amended to read as follows:

 

2414.11           Any annual visitor parking permit issued prior to July 25, 2014 shall expire December 31, 2014.

 

A new Subsection 2414.12 is added to read as follows:

 

2414.12           Any residence eligible to receive an annual visitor parking permit on July 25, 2014 shall be eligible to receive a visitor parking permit that shall expire December 31, 2014.