[Amended 4-21-2014 by HO 2014-04]
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person owning, operating, maintaining or conducting any automobile sales, service or repair agency to store or service any automobile or vehicle of any kind or description upon any street or public space in the City.
B. 
It shall be unlawful for any person in a residential area to service any automobile or vehicle upon any street or public area in the City except for:
(1) 
Emergency repairs;
(2) 
Minor routine maintenance that does not obstruct the roadway;
(3) 
Minor repairs ordinarily delivered at home such as lock and key replacement or windshield repairs.
Note: See Chapter 113.
It shall be unlawful for any person to ride upon any portion of any vehicle not designed or intended for the use of passengers when the vehicle is in motion; provided, however, that this provision shall not be construed to apply to any employee engaged in the performance of his duties.
[Amended 6-1-1998 by HB 98-02, 10-4-2004 by Ord. 2004-14, 4-21-2014 by HO 2014-04]
A. 
No person shall stand or park a vehicle in any parking space on public or private property designated as parking reserved for the physically handicapped with the proper signs or markings posted in conformance with the sign standards in the Maryland Manual, unless said vehicle displays a special registration plate or permit issued by the State of Maryland or Prince George's County with a "handicapped" or other appropriate designation.
B. 
Violations of this subsection 114-72 shall be punishable as misdemeanors, and the fine for each violation shall be $250.
[Amended 2-21-1989 by HB No. 3-89; 6-1-1998 by HR 98-02]
C. 
Nothing in this subsection is meant to relieve persons with proper signs re handicaps from paying the fees unless they can demonstrate the inaccessibility of the meter for payment.
[Amended 4-21-2014 by HO 2014-04]
A. 
Definitions. For the purpose of this section:
UNPAVED AREA
Any surface not completely covered by asphalt or concrete.
UNPREPARED AREA
Any surface.
(1) 
Not completely covered by brick, block, gravel, crushed stone or other similar permeable or semi-permeable aggregate material;
(2) 
Not installed either pursuant to a valid permit or according to construction standards for vehicle parking; or
(3) 
Overgrown, covered with sediment, or not maintained.
B. 
It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle on the unpaved or unprepared area of any residential property except during a "Snow Emergency."
C. 
It shall not be necessary to provide a full platform of the surface material under the parked vehicle, so long as the wheels of the vehicle are parked on a paved or prepared area and access to the area is likewise over a paved or prepared area.
D. 
Nothing contained herein shall be construed as authorizing a departure from the green area requirements of the Zoning Ordinance of Prince George's County, Maryland. Additionally, any person utilizing any portion of their property for such purposes as outlined in this ordinance, must first be in compliance with Chapter 68, Article III and Chapter 105 Article V of the Hyattsville City Code.
E. 
Violation of this subsection 114-72.1 shall be punishable as a Municipal Infraction as provided in Chapter 20 of this Code. Where a Municipal Infraction has been issued for a violation of this Ordinance, each five-day period following the issuance of said citation during which any violation(s) continues uncorrected or recurs shall constitute a separate violation for which additional Municipal Infraction(s) may be issued. The fine for any single violation shall be $100 and the fine for a second offense shall be $250 and the fine for each subsequent offense shall be $500.