§ 72.004 PROHIBITED PARKING.
   (A)   Except when necessary to avoid contact with other traffic or when in compliance with a police officer, others authorized to direct traffic or traffic-control devices, no person shall:
      (1)   Stop, stand or park any vehicle:
         (a)   On the roadway sides of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
         (b)   On a sidewalk;
         (c)   Within an intersection;
         (d)   On a crosswalk;
         (e)   Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb within 30 feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone unless competent authority indicates a different length by signs or markings;
         (f)   Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
         (g)   Upon any bridge or other elevated structure of a highway;
         (h)   On any railroad track;
         (i)   At any place where official signs prohibit stopping;
         (j)   On any public alley, roadway, street, highway or right-of-way when such vehicle is not displaying current legal, valid and proper registration plates in accordance with state registration laws; or
         (k)   On the front, back or side yards in residential districts where such stopping, standing or parking is done in violation of § 151.001 of this code.
      (2)   Stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers:
         (a)   In front of a public or private driveway;
         (b)   Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;
         (c)   Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
         (d)   Within 30 feet of any flashing signal, stop sign, yield sign or other traffic-control device located at the side of a roadway; or
         (e)   Within 20 feet of a driveway entrance to a fire station and on the side of a street opposite the entrance of any fire station within 75 feet of such entrance that is properly signposted.
      (3)   Park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers:
         (a)   Within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing; or
         (b)   At any place where official signs prohibit parking.
   (B)   No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his or her control into any such prohibited area or away from the curb such a distance as shall be unlawful.
(Prior Code, § 72.04) (Ord. 98-27, passed 7-20-1998; Ord. 02-53, passed 10-7-2002; Ord. 19-03, passed 2-19-2019) Penalty, see § 72.999