(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) On the roadway side 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 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;
(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 upon a highway or within a highway tunnel;
(h) On any railroad tracks;
(i) At any place where official signs prohibit stopping;
(j) On any controlled-access highway;
(k) In the area between roadways of a divided highway, including crossovers;
(l) In or upon any private parking lot, upon which has been posted a sign or signs which prohibit parking in the private parking lot. The signs shall be of a standard size and authorized by the city, and shall specify the hours during which parking is prohibited. Any person violating this section shall be fined as set forth in § 72.99; or
(m) In a public parking area if the vehicle does not display a current annual registration sticker or current temporary permit pending registration.
(2) Stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge passengers:
(a) In front of a public or private driveway or within five feet of the driveway when the restriction is properly marked;
(b) Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;
(c) Within 20 feet of a crosswalk;
(d) 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;
(e) 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 the entrance (when properly signposted); or
(f) At any place where official signs prohibit standing.
(3) Park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading property or passengers:
(a) Within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing; or
(b) At any place where official signs prohibit parking.
(4) See the schedules in Chapter 77.
(B) No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his or her control into any the prohibited area or away from a curb the distance as is unlawful.
(1990 Code, § 28-268) (Ord. 79-690, passed 9-17-1979; Ord. 80-711, passed 2-4-1980; Ord. 87-1180, passed 9-21-1987; Ord. 92-1440, passed 3-2-1992; Ord. 92-1451, passed 5-4-1992; Ord. 99-1884, passed 2-15-1999; Ord. 04-3046, passed 5-17-2004; Ord. 09-3268, passed 11-16-2009) Penalty, see § 72.99
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 11-1303