(A) No signs required. No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with the law or in direction of a police officer or traffic control device, in any of the following places:
(1) On a sidewalk;
(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 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;
(8) Alongside or opposite any street, excavation, or obstruction when stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic;
(9) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of the street;
(10) Upon any bridge; or
(11) At any place where official signs prohibit parking or stopping.
(B) Parking not to obstruct traffic. No person shall park any vehicle upon the street, or in an alley in such a manner or under conditions as would leave available less than ten feet of the width of the roadway for free movement of traffic.
(C) Parking for certain purposes prohibited. No person shall park a vehicle upon the street or roadway for the purpose of:
(1) Displaying the vehicle for sale; or
(2) Washing, greasing, or repairing such vehicle except repairs necessitated by an emergency.
(D) Vehicles out of commission or unlicensed. No person shall park a vehicle out of commission or any unlicensed motor vehicle or trailer on any street or highway for a period longer than five days.
(E) Parking prohibited on narrow streets.
(1) The Town Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to erect signs indicating no parking upon either or both sides of the streets when the width of the street and the volume of traffic after determination upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation requires such limitation.
(2) When official signs prohibiting parking are erected upon a narrow street as authorized herein, no person shall park a vehicle in violation of any such sign.
(F) No stopping, standing, or parking near hazardous places.
(1) The Town Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to determine and designate by proper signs places not exceeding 100 feet in length in which the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles would create an especially hazardous condition or would cause unusual delay to traffic.
(2) When official signs are erected at hazardous or congested places as authorized herein, no person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle in any such designated place.
(G) Lights on parked commercial vehicles. Freight-carrying vehicles of one-ton capacity or more shall display lighted clearance lights, tail lights, and dimmed headlights whenever parked on any streets of this town between the hours of sundown and sunrise.
(Ord. 107, passed 5-18-1962) Penalty, see § 72.99