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City of Albuquerque, New Mexico Code of Ordinances
ORDINANCE 27-1994
CHAPTER 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 2: GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER 3: CITY EMPLOYEES
CHAPTER 4: REVENUE AND TAXATION
CHAPTER 5: CITY PROPERTY, PURCHASES AND SALES
CHAPTER 6: WATER, SEWERS AND STREETS
CHAPTER 7: TRANSPORTATION, VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
CHAPTER 8: TRAFFIC CODE
ARTICLE 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
ARTICLE 2: TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
ARTICLE 3: MOTORCYCLES, BICYCLES, SCOOTERS AND TOY VEHICLES
ARTICLE 4: ANIMALS
ARTICLE 5: STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING
PART 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 8-5-1-1 STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING PROHIBITED ­ NO SIGNS REQUIRED.
§ 8-5-1-2 STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING PROHIBITED BY SIGN.
§ 8-5-1-3 PARKING TIME LIMITED BY SIGN.
§ 8-5-1-4 STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING WITHIN CERTAIN HOURS PROHIBITED BY SIGNS.
§ 8-5-1-5 METER PARKING, EXPIRED METER.
§ 8-5-1-6 NO EXTENSION OF METERED PARKING.
§ 8-5-1-7 DEFACING METER, SLUGS.
§ 8-5-1-8 CLOSE TO CURB ­ HEADED FORWARD.
§ 8-5-1-9 PARKING WITHIN STALL.
§ 8-5-1-10 ANGLE PARKING.
§ 8-5-1-11 LOADING OR UNLOADING AT AN ANGLE TO THE CURB.
§ 8-5-1-12 ALL NIGHT PARKING PROHIBITED IN A BUSINESS DISTRICT.
§ 8-5-1-13 PARKING PROHIBITED OF VEHICLE 90 INCHES WIDE.
§ 8-5-1-14 LAMPS ON A PARKED VEHICLE.
§ 8-5-1-15 PARKING NOT TO OBSTRUCT TRAFFIC.
§ 8-5-1-16 PARKING PROHIBITED IN FIRE LANE.
§ 8-5-1-17 PARKING IN ALLEYS.
§ 8-5-1-18 STANDING OR PARKING ON ONE-WAY ROADWAYS.
§ 8-5-1-19 PARKING WITHOUT LICENSE PLATE.
§ 8-5-1-20 CONTROLLED ACCESS ROADWAYS ­ STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING.
§ 8-5-1-21 CHILD OR ANIMAL IN LOCKED VEHICLE.
§ 8-5-1-22 OPENING AND CLOSING DOORS.
§ 8-5-1-23 BOARDING OR ALIGHTING FROM VEHICLES.
§ 8-5-1-24 STARTING STOPPED, STANDING OR PARKED VEHICLE.
§ 8-5-1-25 UNATTENDED MOTOR VEHICLE.
§ 8-5-1-26 PARKING VEHICLE WITH EXPLOSIVES AND THE LIKE.
§ 8-5-1-27 AUTHORIZED POLICE AND EMERGENCY VEHICLES EXCEPTED.
§ 8-5-1-28 TOW VEHICLES EXCEPTED.
§ 8-5-1-29 [RESERVED].
§ 8-5-1-30 DISABLED PARKING.
§ 8-5-1-31 PARKING ON PRIVATE PROPERTY WHERE PROHIBITED BY SIGN; AUTHORITY TO REMOVE VEHICLES.
§ 8-5-1-32 PASSENGER CURB LOADING ZONE.
§ 8-5-1-33 [RESERVED].
§ 8-5-1-34 STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING OF BUSES AND TAXICABS REGULATED.
§ 8-5-1-35 RESTRICTED USE OF BUS AND TAXICAB STANDS.
§ 8-5-1-36 PARKING FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES PROHIBITED.
§ 8-5-1-37 MOVING OR PUSHING VEHICLE OF ANOTHER.
§ 8-5-1-38 UNHITCHED AND HITCHED TRAILER ON PUBLIC WAY.
§ 8-5-1-39 REGISTERED OWNER RESPONSIBLE.
§ 8-5-1-40 MOVING OR MOLESTING UNATTENDED VEHICLES.
§ 8-5-1-41 PROHIBITING UNATTENDED DELIVERY VEHICLES FROM BEING LEFT IDLING.
§ 8-5-1-42 MOBILE FOOD UNITS ON PUBLIC STREETS.
§ 8-5-1-43 REPEATED NONPAYMENT OF AUTOMATED SPEED ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM FINES.
PART 2: AUTHORITY TO REMOVE OR RELOCATE VEHICLES; ABANDONED VEHICLES; INOPERABLE VEHICLES
PART 3: ENFORCEMENT
ARTICLE 6: EQUIPMENT
CHAPTER 9: HEALTH, SAFETY AND SANITATION
CHAPTER 10: AMUSEMENTS, RECREATION, CULTURE
CHAPTER 11: MORALS AND CONDUCT
CHAPTER 12: CRIMINAL CODE
CHAPTER 13: BUSINESS AND OCCUPATIONS
CHAPTER 14: ZONING, PLANNING AND BUILDING
PARALLEL REFERENCES
Charter of the City of Albuquerque
Administrative Instructions
Albuquerque Table of Resolutions
Albuquerque Code of Resolutions
Integrated Development Code
Personnel Rules and Regulations
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§ 8-5-1-6 NO EXTENSION OF METERED PARKING.
   Upon the expiration of the meter's specified time limit for legal parking, whether coins have been previously deposited or not, the vehicle shall be moved from the parking stall it has occupied. It shall be unlawful to deposit or cause to be deposited any coin in the parking meter covering the parking stall already occupied by the vehicle for the purpose of extending the parking time beyond the total lawful parking period.
('74 Code, § 9-5-19.6) (Ord. 65-1974)
§ 8-5-1-7 DEFACING METER, SLUGS.
   It shall be unlawful for any person to deface, damage, tamper with, willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of, or to open without lawful authority, any parking meter installed in parking meter zones. It shall be unlawful to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slug, device or substitute for a coin of the United States of America. It shall be unlawful to attempt to avoid payment of any meter or pay station by any means.
('74 Code, § 9-5-19.7) (Ord. 65-1974; Am. Ord. 2016-011)
§ 8-5-1-8 CLOSE TO CURB ­ HEADED FORWARD.
   Except as otherwise provided herein, no person shall stop or park a vehicle upon a roadway other than parallel with the curb or edge of the roadway headed in the direction of lawful traffic movement and with side wheels nearest the curb or edge of the roadway within 18 inches of the curb or edge of the roadway.
('74 Code, § 9-5-19.8) (Ord. 65-1974)
§ 8-5-1-9 PARKING WITHIN STALL.
   (A)   Where parking stalls have been marked by sign, meter, or painted lines on the pavement, a vehicle shall be parked within the marked area.
   (B)   Where parking stalls on publicly owned parking lots are marked and reserved for the exclusive use of particular vehicles, it shall be unlawful for any person to park any vehicle in such a reserved stall without displaying on the vehicle a current sticker issued for that particular stall by the governmental body owning such parking lot.
('74 Code, § 9-5-19.9) (Ord. 65-1974)
§ 8-5-1-10 ANGLE PARKING.
   Upon those streets which have been signed or marked by the Mayor or his designated representative for angle parking, no person shall park or stand a vehicle other than at the angle to the curb or edge of the roadway indicated by such signs or markings.
('74 Code, § 9-5-19.10) (Ord. 65-1974)
§ 8-5-1-11 LOADING OR UNLOADING AT AN ANGLE TO THE CURB.
   (A)   No person shall park any vehicle at an angle to the curb for the purpose of loading or unloading merchandise, freight, objects or passengers without a permit issued for the vehicle from the Mayor or his designated representative, and such permit shall be open to inspection by any police officer, except where allowed by signage.
   (B)   No person shall park such a vehicle in violation of any of the special terms or conditions of such permit.
('74 Code, § 9-5-19.11) (Ord. 65-1974; Am. Ord. 2016-011)
§ 8-5-1-12 ALL NIGHT PARKING PROHIBITED IN A BUSINESS DISTRICT.
   No person shall park a vehicle on any street in a business district during the hours of 3:00 a.m. until 6:00 a.m. of any day, except physicians on emergency calls.
('74 Code, § 9-5-19.12) (Ord. 65-1974; Am. Ord. 2016-011)
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