§ 72.02. STOPPING, STANDING, OR PARKING PROHIBITED.

(A) No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or traffic-control device, in any of the following places:

(1) On a sidewalk or between a sidewalk and curb;

(2) In front of a public or private driveway;

(3) Within an intersection, or within 20 feet of any intersection as measured from the curb or, in the absence of a curb, from the edge of the roadway;

(4) Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;

(5) On a crosswalk;

(6) Within 20 feet of a crosswalk;

(7) Within 30 feet of the approach to any flashing beacon, stop sign, or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway;

(8) Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within 30 feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless the Traffic Engineer has indicated a different length by signs or markings;

(9) Within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;

(10) Within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station within 75 feet of said entrance when properly signposted;

(11) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic;

(12) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;

(13) On any bridge or other elevated structure on a highway or within a highway tunnel;

(14) At any place where official signs prohibit stopping, standing, or parking;

(15) On the traveled portion of any roadway which does not have a curb or gutter when such stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic.

(16) On or within a fire lane that is located on property that is privately or publicly owned.

(17) In front of any receptacle designed to receive or send mail through the U.S. Postal Service or any other parcel or package delivered by any other delivery service.

(B) No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his control into any such prohibited area or away from a curb at such distance as is unlawful.

(‘66 Code, § 42.02) (Am. Ord. 2000-6, passed 6-22-00; Am. Ord. 2018-12, passed 9-12-18) Penalty, see § 72.99