(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 an intersection;
(7) Within 30 feet upon the approach to any flashing beacon, stop sign, or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway;
(8) 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 signs or markings indicate a different length;
(9) Within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;
(10) 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 the entrance (when property signposted);
(11) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic;
(12) On a 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; and/or
(14) At any place where official signs prohibit stopping.
(B) No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his or her control into any such prohibited area or away from a curb the distance as is unlawful.
(1982 Code, § 7-1151)
(C) No person shall park or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the main-traveled portion of any street, highway, road, or alley within the corporate limits of the Town of Murphy, North Carolina, unless the vehicle is disabled to such an extent that it is impossible to avoid stopping and temporarily leaving the vehicle upon the main-traveled portion of the street, highway, road, or alley or unless the vehicle is a tractor trailer, truck or other commercial/vendor truck temporarily stopped while making deliveries to a business adjacent to the street, highway, road or alley.
(Ord. passed 10-12-1987; Am. Ord. passed 7-1-2019) Penalty, see §
70.999