(a) Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or official traffic-control device, no person shall:
(1) Stop, stand or park a vehicle:
a. At any place where official signs prohibit stopping;
b. On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
c. On a sidewalk;
d. Within an intersection;
e. On a crosswalk;
f. 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 is indicated by signs or markings;
g. Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
h. Upon a bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel; or
i. On any railroad track.
(2) Stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers:
a. At any place where official signs prohibit standing;
b. In front of a public or private driveway;
c. Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;
d. Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
e. Within 30 feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop sign, yield sign or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway; or
f. Within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station within 75 feet of said entrance (when properly sign-posted).
(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. At any place where official signs prohibit parking; or
b. Within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing.
(b) Except where official signs or markings indicate otherwise, every vehicle stopped or parked upon a two-way roadway shall be so stopped or parked with the right-hand wheels parallel to and within 18 inches of the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway.
(c) Except where official signs or markings indicate otherwise, every vehicle stopped or parked upon a one-way roadway shall be so stopped or parked parallel to the curb or edge of the roadway, in the direction of authorized traffic movement, with its right-hand wheels within 18 inches of the right-hand curb or edge of roadway, or its left-hand wheels within 18 inches of the left-hand curb or edge of roadway.
(d) All words and phrases used in this section shall have the same meaning as they are defined in the Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways, Tex. Rev. Civ. Stat. Ann. Art. 6701d.
(Ord. 10267, § 1, passed 3-7-1989)
Cross-reference:
Distance from curb, see § 22-166
Head-in parking prohibited, see § 22-175
Parking in disability parking spaces, see § 22-174(b)
Prohibited in alleys, see § 22-161
Prohibited in certain residentially zoned yard areas, see § 22-160
Restricted on certain private property, see § 22-171
Restricted on certain public property, see § 22-171.5
Restricted when less than ten feet of roadway left available for traffic, see § 22-157
Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in certain bus lanes, see § 22-156