Section
Parking Generally
72.01 Obstructional parking; double parking
72.02 Manner of parking
72.03 Limitations of stopping and parking
72.04 Restrictions and prohibitions on designated streets
72.05 Parking restricted to allow street cleaning
72.06 Parking in excess of certain number of hours prohibited; towing authorized
72.07 Parking on parade route
72.08 Parking on off-street facility
72.09 Owner responsibility
72.10 Parking in parks
72.11 Display of parked vehicle for sale
72.12 Parking with handicapped permits
Impounding
72.25 Impoundment of vehicles authorized; redemption
72.26 Required notice to owner; sale of a vehicle
72.27 Sale of the contents of a vehicle
Snow Emergency
72.40 Announcement of snow emergency
72.41 Termination of emergency
72.42 Snow emergency routes
72.99 Penalty
Statutory reference:
Revenues from fees, fines, and forfeitures related to parking, see KRS 65.120
PARKING GENERALLY
(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to leave any vehicle or any other thing that may be a nuisance, obstruction, or hindrance in or on any street, alley, or sidewalk within the city either during the day or night.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to stop or park any vehicle on the roadway side of any other vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street.
(Prior Code, § 72.01) Penalty, see § 72.99
(A) It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to stop or park the vehicle in a manner other than with its right-hand side toward and parallel with the curb, except that where parking is permitted on the left side of a one-way street, the left-hand side shall be so parked, and except for commercial loading and unloading on one-way streets.
(B) No vehicle shall be parked or left standing on any street unless its two right wheels are within six inches of and parallel with the curb, except that on one-way streets where parking is permitted on the left side, the two left wheels are to be within six inches of and parallel with the curb.
(C) No vehicle shall be backed to the curb on any street, except that wagons and trucks may do so when loading and unloading; provided, that the loading and unloading and delivery of property and material shall not consume more than 30 minutes. This backing of trucks or wagons is prohibited at all times and on all streets in the city where any truck or wagon so backed interferes with the use of the roadway by moving vehicles or occupies road space within ten feet of the centerline of the street.
(D) The city may establish diagonal parking at certain places, requiring the parking of vehicles at a certain angle to the curb, and within a certain portion of the roadway adjacent thereto; however, diagonal parking shall not be established where the roadway space required therefor would be within ten feet of the centerline of any street. The diagonal parking places shall be designated by suitable signs, and shall indicate by markings on the pavement the required angle and the width of the roadway space within which the vehicle shall park.
(E) It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to so park the vehicle that any part thereof shall extend beyond the lines marking the side or the rear of the space assigned for one vehicle.
(Prior Code, § 72.02) Penalty, see § 72.99
(A) No person shall stop or park a vehicle except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic-control device, in the following places:
(1) On a sidewalk;
(2) In front of sidewalk ramps provided for persons with disabilities;
(3) In front of a public or private driveway;
(4) Within an intersection or on a crosswalk;
(5) At any place where official signs prohibit stopping or parking;
(6) Within 30 feet upon the approach to any flashing beacon, stop sign, or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway;
(7) On any controlled access highway;
(8) Within a highway tunnel;
(9) Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant; or
(10) On an area between the roadways of a divided highway.
(KRS 189.450(5))
(B) No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his or her control into any prohibited area.
(KRS 189.450(6))
(Prior Code, § 72.03) Penalty, see § 72.99
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