Baltimore County, MD Parking Rules: Snow Removal Parking Rules (2026)

Rather than fixing snow-emergency routes or parking bans directly in the Code, Section 18-3-102(e) gives the Director of Public Works and Transportation, or the Director's designee, authority to develop a snow emergency plan in accordance with Article 3, Title 7, Subtitle 2 of the Code, the county's general regulation-adoption procedure. That plan is what actually designates which roads become snow emergency routes and what parking or standing restrictions apply once the county activates it. Once the plan exists, the County Administrative Officer, or the county Chief of Police as the Administrative Officer's designee, decides when to implement and enforce it, tied to 'appropriate weather conditions' rather than a fixed calendar window.

This sits within Title 3 of Article 18, which otherwise gives the Director broad control over county roads, bridges, and sidewalks, including the authority under Section 18-3-101 to open, maintain, and improve them and under Section 18-3-103 to propose regulations governing their use and the rights of the public. Because the specific parking bans and routes live in the adopted plan and regulations rather than in the underlying statute, the Code itself does not set a numeric penalty for violating snow emergency parking restrictions; that detail is set in the regulations the plan adopts under the county's general rulemaking process.