CHAPTER 5
STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING

SECTION:

10-5-1: Prohibited Parking; Generally

10-5-2: Streets; Parking Prohibited At All Times

10-5-3: Streets; Parking Prohibited During Certain Hours

10-5-4: Time Limited Parking

10-5-5: Parking On Sidewalk Or Parkway Area Prohibited

10-5-6: Parks, Playgrounds, Grounds Of Public Buildings And Public Property

10-5-7: Municipal Building Parking

10-5-8: Parallel Parking Required; Exceptions

10-5-9: Angle Parking

10-5-10: Parking Space Markings

10-5-11: Business District

10-5-12: Special Loading Permits

10-5-13: Bus And Taxicab Zones

10-5-14: Buses And Taxicabs

10-5-15: Blocking Traffic

10-5-16: Reserved

10-5-17: Reserved

10-5-18: Using Streets For Storage

10-5-19: Working On Vehicles In Streets, Parks Or Parking Lots

10-5-20: Abandoned Vehicles

10-5-21: Snow Removal

10-5-22: Restricted Vehicles; Parking Regulations

10-5-23: Restricted Recreational Vehicles

10-5-24: Vehicles Illegally Parked On Street; Police Authority To Move

10-5-25: Fire Lanes

10-5-26: Parking For Persons With Disabilities

10-5-27: Oversized Vehicles; Ogden City Mall

10-5-28: Vacant Lots Or Parking Lots; Display For Sale Prohibited

10-5-29: Prohibited Parking In Front Yards On Residential Property

10-5-1: PROHIBITED PARKING; GENERALLY:

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)

10-5-2: STREETS; PARKING PROHIBITED AT ALL TIMES:

It shall be unlawful to park a vehicle or permit such vehicle to remain parked upon any street, part of a street or roadway, when signs or traffic markings are erected by the city which give notice that parking is prohibited.

(1979 Code § 10.48.200; Ord. 94-60, 11-15-1994)

10-5-3: STREETS; PARKING PROHIBITED DURING CERTAIN HOURS:

When signs or traffic markings are erected or placed by direction of the city, no person shall park a vehicle or permit said vehicle to remain standing during the hours and days specified by such signs and markings upon any street, parts of a street, or roadway.

(1979 Code § 10.48.210; Ord. 94-60, 11-15-1994)

10-5-4: TIME LIMITED PARKING:

It shall be unlawful to park a vehicle or permit such vehicle to remain parked upon any street, part of a street, or roadway, for a period of time longer than the time specified, between the hours shown, when signs or traffic markings are erected or placed by the city restricting the times for parking. The parking time restrictions established shall not be applicable on Sundays, and the time before eight o'clock (8:00) A.M. and after six o'clock (6:00) P.M. on any day, and on state legal holidays.

(1979 Code § 10.48.190; Ord. 94-60, 11-15-1994; amd. Ord. 2006-49, 8-8-2006)

10-5-5: PARKING ON SIDEWALK OR PARKWAY AREA PROHIBITED:

It shall be unlawful for any person to leave or cause to be left, or parked, any vehicle upon any portion of a street or highway between the curb lines or the lateral lines of a roadway and the adjacent sidewalk or property line, if no sidewalk is present, unless such area has been designated by the city for parking through the placement of signs or traffic markings.

(1979 Code § 10.48.020; amd. Ord. 94-60, 11-15-1994)