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Alva, OK Code of Ordinances
ALVA, OKLAHOMA CODE OF ORDINANCES
CHAPTER 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 2: ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER 3: RESERVED
CHAPTER 4: ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
CHAPTER 5: RESERVED
CHAPTER 6: ANIMALS
CHAPTER 7: RESERVED
CHAPTER 8: AVIATION
CHAPTER 9: RESERVED
CHAPTER 10: BUILDINGS AND BUILDING REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 11: RESERVED
CHAPTER 12: BUSINESSES
CHAPTER 13: RESERVED
CHAPTER 14: CIVIL EMERGENCIES
CHAPTER 15: RESERVED
CHAPTER 16: EMERGENCY SERVICES
CHAPTER 17: RESERVED
CHAPTER 18: ENVIRONMENT
CHAPTER 19: RESERVED
CHAPTER 20: FINANCE AND TAXATION
CHAPTER 21: RESERVED
CHAPTER 22: FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION
CHAPTER 23: RESERVED
CHAPTER 24: FLOODS
CHAPTER 25: RESERVED
CHAPTER 26: HEALTH
CHAPTER 27: RESERVED
CHAPTER 28: HUMAN RELATIONS
CHAPTER 29: RESERVED
CHAPTER 30: LAW ENFORCEMENT
CHAPTER 31: RESERVED
CHAPTER 32: MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES
CHAPTER 33: RESERVED
CHAPTER 34: MUNICIPAL COURT
CHAPTER 35: RESERVED
CHAPTER 36: PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER 37: RESERVED
CHAPTER 38: PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PLACES
CHAPTER 39: RESERVED
CHAPTER 40: STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
CHAPTER 41: RESERVED
CHAPTER 42: TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES
ARTICLE I: IN GENERAL
ARTICLE II: ENFORCEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
ARTICLE III: VEHICLE EQUIPMENT; INSPECTION
ARTICLE IV: SPEED REGULATIONS
ARTICLE V: DRIVING; OVERTAKING; PASSING
ARTICLE VI: TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES
ARTICLE VII: STOPPING, STANDING, AND PARKING
ARTICLE VIII: LOADING
ARTICLE IX: TURNING MOVEMENTS
ARTICLE X: PEDESTRIANS
ARTICLE XI: BICYCLES AND MOTORIZED SCOOTERS
ARTICLE XII: IMPOUNDMENT OF VEHICLES
ARTICLE XIII: RAILROADS
ARTICLE XIV: VEHICLES FOR HIRE
CHAPTER 43: RESERVED
CHAPTER 44: UTILITIES
APPENDIX A: SUBDIVISIONS
APPENDIX B: ZONING
APPENDIX C: FRANCHISES
PARALLEL REFERENCES
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§ 42-369. HAZARDOUS OR CONGESTED PLACES; STOPPING, STANDING, OR PARKING.
   (A)   The City Council is hereby authorized to determine and regulate by proper signs the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles when such stopping, standing, or parking would create an especially hazardous condition or would cause unusual delay to traffic.
   (B)   When official signs are erected at hazardous or congested places, as authorized in subsection (A) above of this section, no person shall violate such signs.
(Prior Code, § 42-369)
§ 42-370. STOPPING, STANDING, OR PARKING PROHIBITED IN SPECIFIED PLACES.
   (A)   No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle, except in emergencies or 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, sidewalk area, or between the sidewalk and the street;
      (2)   In front of a public or private driveway;
      (3)   Within an intersection;
      (4)   Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;
      (5)   On a crosswalk;
      (6)   Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
      (7)   Within 30 feet upon 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 a different length has been indicated 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 the street opposite the entrance to any fire station within 75 feet of the entrance when properly signposted;
      (11)   Alongside or opposite any street excavation or construction when stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic;
      (12)   Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel; or
      (13)   At any place where official signs prohibit stopping.
   (B)   No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his or her control into any prohibited area or an unlawful distance away from a curb.
(Prior Code, § 42-370)
Statutory reference:
   Stopping, standing, parking in specified places, see 47 O.S. § 11-1003
§ 42-371. BLOCKING OF INTERSECTION OR CROSSWALK PROHIBITED.
   No driver shall enter an intersection or a marked crosswalk unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection or crosswalk to accommodate the vehicles or pedestrians, notwithstanding any traffic control signal indication to proceed.
(Prior Code, § 42-371)
§ 42-372. STANDING OR PARKING ON ONE-WAY ROADWAY.
   (A)   If a highway includes two or more separate roadways and traffic is restricted to one direction upon any such roadway, no person shall stand or park a vehicle upon the left-hand side of the one-way roadway unless signs are erected to permit such standing or parking.
   (B)   The City Council may determine when standing or parking may be permitted upon the left-hand side of any such one-way roadway and to erect signs giving notice thereof.
(Prior Code, § 42-372)
§ 42-373. PARKING PROHIBITED AT INTERSECTIONS.
   The parking of vehicles at the curb where streets intersect shall be prohibited 15 feet in advance of the crosswalk on the near side of such intersection.
(Prior Code, § 42-373)
§ 42-374. PARKING IN ALLEYS, BLOCKING DRIVEWAYS, AND THE LIKE.
   No person shall park a vehicle within a street or alley in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than ten feet of the width of the roadway for the free movement of vehicular traffic. No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle within a street or alley in such position as to block a driveway entrance to any abutting property.
(Prior Code, § 42-374)
§ 42-375. ENTRY ON PRIVATE PROPERTY; TRESPASS; EVIDENCE; BURDEN OF PROOF.
   (A)   No person shall make an entry with any vehicle upon real property owned or legally occupied by another without the owner’s or occupant’s consent, except where such private property is provided as public parking and the general use of the property is not restricted by signs or proper markings.
   (B)   Where entry is made upon real property owned or legally occupied by another without the owner’s or occupant’s consent, except on unrestricted public parking, and is complained of by the owner or legal occupant of the premises, the burden is put upon the person making the entry to show that permission for such entry was given.
(Prior Code, § 42-375)
§ 42-376. TRUCK PARKING PROHIBITED.
   (A)   It is unlawful and an offense for any person to park any of the following vehicles which exceed a weight limit of one ton on any street or alley in the city, except as provided in subsection (B) below of this section:
      (1)   Truck;
      (2)   Bus;
      (3)   Tractor;
      (4)   Trailer;
      (5)   Truck-trailer, semitrailer, or combination of any of the above; or
      (6)   Any other commercial vehicle.
   (B)   The vehicles listed in subsection (A) above of this section may be parked entirely on private property so long as they are not in the area dedicated for use as a public street and so long as they do not obstruct the usage of the streets by other vehicles and pedestrians.
(Prior Code, § 42-376)
§ 42-377. DOUBLE PARKING.
   (A)   No driver shall double park or double stop a vehicle under the following conditions:
      (1)   Within 50 feet of an intersection, except alley intersections, or within ten feet of an alley intersection;
      (2)   Opposite a double parked or double stopped vehicle across the street;
      (3)   When such double parking or double stopping would or does block or interfere materially with the normal movement of traffic;
      (4)   When parking space adjacent to the curb is available;
      (5)   When directed by a police officer to move on; or
      (6)   In any position other than parallel to the curb and within two feet of the adjacent vehicle parked next to the curb.
   (B)   A driver may double park or double stop a vehicle only as authorized in this section. There must be a licensed driver in any vehicle while it is double parked or double stopped.
   (C)   A driver may double stop for the purpose of, but only while actually engaged in, the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers, subject, however, to all the general conditions hereinabove set out.
   (D)   A driver may double park for the purpose of, but only while actually engaged in, the expeditious loading or unloading of merchandise, subject, however, to all the general conditions hereinabove set out. No such vehicle shall be double parked longer than ten minutes.
(Prior Code, § 42-377)
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