No person shall stop, stand 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 any of the following places:
(A) On the sidewalk and on the space between the sidewalk and the curb;
(B) On a crosswalk;
(C) Within 30 feet of any flashing beacon, stop sign or traffic-control signal located at the side of a street or roadway;
(D) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction, when such stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
(E) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure or within any underpass structure;
(F) Within 15 feet in either direction of the entrance to a hotel, theater, hospital, sanatorium or any public building;
(G) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped, standing or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
(H) In an area designated as a fire lane;
(I) Upon the shoulder of a public street or highway unless it does not obstruct the normal movement of traffic;
(J) Upon the main-traveled portion of any public street, public highway or bridge, whether attended or unattended, unless such vehicle is disabled to such an extent that it is impossible to avoid stopping and temporarily leaving the vehicle upon the main-traveled portion of the public street, public highway or bridge.
Statutory reference:
Parking in front of driveways, fire hydrants, fire station intersections, fire lanes, see G.S. § 20-162