(a) No person shall park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid a conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a deputy sheriff or other police officer or traffic control device, in any of the following places:
(1) On a sidewalk;
(2) In front of or in any such manner which obstructs access to or from a public or private driveway;
(3) On a crosswalk or within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
(4) Within 30 feet upon the approach of any flashing beacon, stop sign or traffic control signal located at the side of a roadway;
(5) On the roadway side of any vehicle parked at the edge or the curb of a street;
(6) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a street or highway or within a tunnel;
(7) So as to prevent the use of curb ramps located on public property or on privately owned property open to the public;
(8) At any place where official signs prohibit parking (Refer to Section 480.001 for definition of “official sign”);
(9) Perpendicular to any curb whether on roadway or dead end cul-de-sacs where not marked as an official parking space (Section 46.2-889, Code of Virginia);
(10) Parking on the left edge of the roadway facing traffic;
(11) Within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on the street opposite the entrance to any fire station within 75 feet of the entrance when properly sign posted;
(12) Parking across or on any line or marking painted on the street by VDOT or the County to designate a vehicular parking area or space;
(13) Parking during specified “No Parking” hours;
(14) In front of a mailbox that the individual does not own.
(b) No person other than a deputy sheriff, police officer, or member of the fire and rescue department shall move a vehicle into any such prohibited area or away from a curb such distance as is unlawful, or start or cause to be started the motor of any motor vehicle, change or move the levers, brake starting device, gears, or other mechanism of a parked motor vehicle to a position other than that in which it was left by the owner or driver thereof, or attempt to do so.
(Ord. 02-14. Passed 10-21-02; Ord. 06-01. Passed 2-7-06; Ord. 18-05. Passed 2-22-18.)