(A) No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or traffic-control device, in any of the following places:
(1) On a sidewalk.
(2) In front of a public or private driveway.
(3) Within an intersection.
(4) Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant.
(5) On a crosswalk.
(6) Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at any intersection.
(7) Within 30 feet upon approach to any flashing beacon stop sign or traffic control signal located at the side of the roadway.
(8) Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within 30 feet of a point on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless the City Traffic Engineer has indicated a different length by signs or markings.
(9) Within 50 feet of the nearest rail or a railroad crossing.
(10) Within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station or within 75 feet of said entrance (when properly signposted).
(11) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic.
(12) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street.
(13) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel.
(14) At any place where official signs prohibit stopping.
(15) At any place where parking may have been prohibited by ordinance duly enacted prior to the effective date of this ordinance or hereinafter enacted, the City Manager is hereby authorized and directed to erect signs indicating no parking on any street where parking may have been prohibited by such an ordinance or where the effective regulations of traffic, health, safety and welfare of public may require.
(B) No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his control into any such prohibited area or away from a curb such distance as is unlawful.
(C) No person shall park any vehicle upon a street, other than an alley, in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than 10 feet of the width of the roadway or free movement of vehicular traffic.
(D) No person shall park a vehicle within an alley in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than 10 feet of the width of the roadway for the free movement of vehicular traffic, and no person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle within an alley in such position as to block the driveway entrance to any abutting property.
(E) No person shall park a vehicle upon any street or roadway for the principal purpose of:
(1) Displaying such vehicle for sale or storing same.
(2) Washing, greasing, or repairing such vehicle, except repairs necessitated by an emergency.
(F) The City Manager is hereby authorized to erect signs indicating no parking upon that side of any street adjacent to any school property when such parking would, in his opinion, interfere with traffic or create a hazardous situation, except when loading or discharging upon that side of a street adjacent to any school property, no person shall park a vehicle in any such designated place, except as prescribed in subsection (A) of this section.
(G) The City Manager is hereby authorized to erect signs indicating no parking upon any street when the width of the roadway does not exceed 20 feet, or upon one side of a street as indicated by such signs when the width of the street does not exceed 30 feet, When official signs prohibiting parking are erected upon narrow streets as authorized herein, no person shall park a vehicle upon any such street in violation of any such sign.
(H) The City Manager is hereby authorized to determine and designate by proper signs placed, not exceeding 100 feet in length, in which the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles would create an especially hazardous condition or would cause unusual delay to traffic. When official signs are erected at hazardous or congested places as authorized herein, no person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle in any such designated place.
(I) (1) The City Manager is hereby authorized to reserve spaces for physically disabled parking on public streets and public property and to post official signs indicating such reserved physically disabled parking; and private property owners are hereby authorized to reserve spaces for physically disabled parking on private lots and private property and to post official signs indicating such reserved physically disabled parking; all as provided herein and in § 150.13 of the Revised Code of Ordinances of the City of Mt. Vernon.
(2) When official signs reserving physically disabled parking spaces are erected as authorized herein, no person shall cause, allow, permit, or suffer any vehicle registered in the name of or operated by such person to stop, stand, or park any vehicle in any such designated space unless the vehicle shall:
(a) Bear registration plates or a special decal or device issued to a physically disabled person pursuant to § 3-616 (625 ILCS 5/3-616) or § 11-1301.2 (625 ILCS 5/11-1301.2) or to a disabled veteran pursuant to § 3-609 (625 ILCS 5/3-609) of the “Illinois Vehicle Code”; and
(b) Be operated by the physically disabled or disabled person to whom the special registration plates, special decal device, or visor card were issued or by a person acting under the express direction of a physically disabled or disabled person while the physically disabled or disabled person is present.
(3) It shall be unlawful and a violation of this Article for any unauthorized vehicle to stop, stand, or park in a space specifically reserved for physically disabled parking by the posting of an official sign; such violation shall constitute the offense of “unauthorized parking in a physically disabled zone” and shall be punishable by a fine of $250.00. Said offense maybe charged by means of a citation or “hang-on” ticket.
(J) The City Manager is hereby authorized to erect signs designating and reserving parking areas within the City of Mt. Vernon for use by the Police Department during the course of official police business. Said signs shall indicate no parking or shall indicate reserved for police. When official signs are erected as authorized herein, no person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle in any such designated place or in violation of such sign.
(Prior Code, Art. 18, § 18.16)