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(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)
(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
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)
(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)
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)
(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)
(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)
(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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