(A) The provisions of this section prohibiting the stopping and parking of a vehicle shall apply at all times or at times herein specified or as indicated on official signs, except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a law enforcement office or official traffic-control devices.
(B) The provisions of this section imposing a time limit of parking shall not relieve any person from his or her duty to observe other and more restrictive provisions prohibiting or limiting the stopping or parking of vehicle in specific places or at specified times.
(C) When signs are erected in compliance with the provisions of section below giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle at any time on any street, road or alley so marked by official signs.
(D) When a curb has been painted in compliance with the provisions of division (F) below, no person shall park a vehicle at any time at or adjacent to any curb so marked.
(E) When signs are erected in compliance with the provisions of division (F) below, in each block giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle between the hours specified by official signs on any day except Sunday on any street, road or alley so marked.
(F) (1) The County Fiscal Court shall determine on what streets, roads or alleys or portions thereof stopping or parking shall be restricted or prohibited. Whenever under authority of or by this traffic code or any other ordinance any parking limit is imposed or parking is prohibited on designated street, road or alleys, or parking areas are restricted to handicapped parking, appropriate signs shall be erected giving notice thereof; however, in lieu of erecting such signs or in conjunction therewith, the face and top of a curb or curbs at or adjacent to which parking is prohibited at all times may be painted a solid yellow color, to give notice parking is prohibited or painted blue to give parking notice of handicap parking only.
(2) No such regulations or restrictions shall be effective unless the signs have been erected and are in place or the curbs are painted at the time of any alleged offense, except in the case of those parking restrictions which by their very nature would not require such signs and markings.
(G) When signs are erected in compliance with division (F) above in each block giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle for a time longer than specified on official signs.
(H) There shall be no parking in any area marked as such through the use of yellow-painted curbs. This shall include areas marked with “No Parking,” No Parking This Side” or “No Parking Here to Corner” signs.
(I) It shall be unlawful to park opposed to traffic, on any street, road or alley within the county.
(J) It shall be unlawful to park on the right-of-way of any street, road or alley and within 20 feet of a street, road, alley intersection or within ten feet of a private or public driveway.
(K) No parking will be allowed when the distance from the edge of the pavement (EOP) to the curb line is less than eight feet, EOP is to be defined by the State Department of Transportation and/or the county’s planning and zoning ordinances.
(Ord. 03-5-13-08, passed 5-13-2008) Penalty, see § 70.99