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:
(A) Stop, stand or park a vehicle:
(1) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
(2) On a sidewalk;
(3) Within an intersection;
(4) On a crosswalk;
(5) 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;
(6) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
(7) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel;
(8) On any railroad tracks;
(9) At any place where official signs prohibit stopping;
(10) On any controlled-access highway; or
(11) In the area between roadways of a divided highway, including crossovers.
(B) Stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge passengers:
(1) In front of a public or private driveway, or upon the opposite side of the street from such driveway where such parking interferes with the normal ingress or egress of such driveway;
(2) Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;
(3) Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
(4) 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;
(5) 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 such entrance (when properly sign-posted); or
(6) At any place where official signs prohibit standing.
(C) Park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading property or passengers:
(1) Within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing; or
(2) At any place where official signs prohibit parking.
(Ord. 07-08, passed 2-20-2007) Penalty, see § 73.99