5595656 Transportation, District Department of - Notice of Proposed Rulemaking -Parking Under a Bridge

DISTRICT DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

 

NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING

The Director of the District Department of Transportation (DDOT), pursuant to the authority set forth in 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.)), hereby gives notice of this proposed action to adopt the following rule to amend Chapter 26 (Civil Fines for Moving and Non-Moving Infractions), of Title 18 (Vehicles and Traffic) of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (DCMR).

 
The proposed regulation will clarify the summary description in Chapter 26 of the types of parking that are prohibited, to make clear that there is no general prohibition against parking a vehicle under a bridge.

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

Chapter 26, CIVIL FINES FOR MOVING AND NON-MOVING INFRACTIONS is amended as follows:

 

Section 2601, PARKING AND OTHER NON-MOVING INFRACTIONS, is amended as follows:

 

The infraction labeled “Bridge, tunnel, freeway, viaduct or other elevated structure or ramps, on or under (§ 2405.1(d))” is amended to read as follows:

 

Bridge, viaduct, or other elevated structure, freeway, or ramp (on) or highway tunnel (within) [§ 2405.1(d)]   $ 50.00   

 

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 Samuel D. Zimbabwe, Associate Director, District Department of Transportation, 55 M Street, S.E., 5th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20003. An interested person may also send comments electronically to [e-mail]. 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.