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DISTRICT DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING
The Director of the Department of Transportation, pursuant to the authority of sections 5(3)(D) and 6(b) 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 921.05(b)) (transferring the parking management function previously delegated to the Department of Public Works under section III (H) of Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1983), and 18 DCMR § 2404.18, hereby gives notice of the intent to adopt the following rulemaking to amend Chapter 24 of Title 18 (Vehicles and Traffic) of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (DCMR).
The proposed rulemaking, which has been approved by the Director of the Department of Public Works, would eliminate hour restrictions on parking meters after 6:30 p.m. and before 7:00 a.m.
Final rulemaking action shall not be taken in less than thirty (30) days after the date of publication of this notice in the D.C. Register.
Chapter 24, of Title 18, DCMR, is amended as follows:
Section 2404, PARKING METERS AND PARKING METER ZONES, is amended as follows:
Subsection 2404.9 is amended to read as follows:
2404.9 Parking meter zones may be used without charge at times when the signs and meters in those zones indicate payment is not needed.
New subsections 2404.27 through 2404.29 are added to read as follows:
2404.27 Notwithstanding § 2404.7, a person may, during evening hours, park a vehicle for longer than the posted time limit in a parking meter zone that is located in an Unlimited Evening Hour Zone; provided, that the person must still pay for parking during the times metered parking is enforced.
2404.28 For the purposes of this section, evening hours are defined as the hours between 6:30 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. the following day.
2404.29 The Unlimited Evening Hour Zone shall include all metered street segments in the High Demand Parking Meter Rate Zone and Premium Demand Parking Meter Rate Zone.
All persons interested in commenting on the subject matter in this proposed rulemaking may file comments in writing, not later than thirty (30) days after the publication of this notice in the D.C. Register, with Karina Ricks, Associate Director, District of Columbia Department of Transportation, 2000 14th Street, N.W., 7th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20009. You may also send comments electronically to publicspace.committee@dc.gov. Copies of this proposed rulemaking are available, at cost, by writing to the above address, and are also available electronically, at no cost, on the District Department of Transportation’s website at www.ddot.dc.gov.
