Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or official traffic control device, no person shall:
A. Stop, stand or park a vehicle:
1. On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
2. On a sidewalk;
3. Within an intersection;
4. On a crosswalk;
5. Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within thirty feet (30') of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless a different length is indicated by signs or markings;
6. Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
7. Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel;
8. On any railroad tracks;
9. On any controlled access highway;
10. In the area between roadways of a divided highway, including crossovers;
11. Any place where official traffic control devices prohibit stopping.
B. Stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers:
1. In front of a public or private driveway;
2. Within fifteen feet (15') of a fire hydrant;
3. Within twenty feet (20') of a crosswalk at an intersection;
4. Within thirty feet (30') upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop sign, yield sign or traffic control signal located at the side of a roadway;
5. Within twenty feet (20') of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station within seventy five feet (75') of said entrance when properly signposted;
6. At any place where official traffic control devices prohibit standing.
C. Park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading property or passengers:
1. Within fifty feet (50') of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;
2. At any place where official traffic control devices prohibit parking.
D. No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under such person's control into any prohibited area or an unlawful distance from the curb.
(1979 Code § 10.48.010; amd. Ord. 94-60, 11-15-1994)