DIVISION 1. - GENERALLY

Sec. 18-106. - Standing or parking close to the curb.

No person shall stand or park a vehicle in a roadway other than parallel with the edge of the roadway headed in the direction of lawful traffic movement and with the right-hand wheels of the vehicle within twelve (12) inches of the curb or edge of the roadway except as otherwise provided in this chapter.

Sec. 18-107. - Lights on parked vehicles.

(a)   Whenever a vehicle is lawfully parked at nighttime upon any street within a business or residence district, no lights need be displayed upon such parked vehicle.

(b)   Any lighted headlamps upon a parked vehicle shall be depressed or dimmed.

Sec. 18-108. - Setting brakes on parked vehicles.

No vehicle shall be parked on any highway without first setting the brakes thereon and stopping the motor thereof, and without turning the wheels of such vehicle to the curb or side of the highway if it is standing upon a slope.

Sec. 18-109. - Authority to indicate angle parking.

(a)   The director, division of traffic engineering shall determine upon what streets angle parking shall be permitted and shall mark or sign such streets; but such angle parking shall not be indicated upon any federal-aid or state highway within the urban county unless the state highway department has determined that the roadway is of sufficient width to permit angle parking without interfering with the free movement of traffic.

(b)   Angle parking shall not be indicated or permitted at any place where passing traffic would thereby be caused or required to drive upon the left side of the street.

Sec. 18-110. - Obedience to angle parking signs or markings.

Upon those streets which have been signed or marked by the director, division of traffic engineering for angle parking, no person shall park or stand a vehicle other than at the angle to the curb or edge of the roadway indicated by such signs or markings.

Sec. 18-111. - Opening doors of parked vehicles.

No person shall open the doors of any parked vehicle, which doors open on the street side of such vehicle when any other vehicle or bicycle is approaching such parked vehicle and is within fifty (50) feet thereof on the side of the street on which the parked vehicle is standing.