351.01 Police may remove unattended vehicle which obstructs traffic.
351.02 Registered owner prima-facie liable for unlawful parking.
351.03 Prohibited standing or parking places.
351.04 Parking near curb; handicapped locations on public and private lots and garages.
351.05 Manner of angle parking.
351.06 Selling, washing or repairing vehicle upon roadway or on private property open to public travel.
351.07 Unattended vehicle: duty to stop engine, remove key, set brake and turn wheels.
351.08 Opening vehicle door on traffic side.
351.09 Truck loading zones.
351.10 Bus stops and taxicab stands.
351.11 Parking in alleys and narrow streets; exceptions.
351.12 Prohibition against parking on streets or highways.
351.13 Parking in excess of 72 hours prohibited.
351.14 Parking vehicle across marked lines.
351.15 Fire lane.
351.16 Snow routes.
351.161 Snow emergency levels.
351.17 Vendor parking.
351.18 Parking prohibitions on private property.
351.19 Parking of motor vehicles, commercial vehicles, tractor trailers, trucks, buses and construction equipment on streets in residential areas.
351.20 Citizen volunteers may issue parking violation citations.
351.99 Penalty.
CROSS REFERENCES
See sectional histories for similar State law
Owner nonliability, lease defense - see Ohio R.C. 4511.071
Police may remove ignition key from unattended vehicle - see TRAF. 303.03
Parking near stopped fire apparatus - see TRAF. 331.27
Lights on parked or stopped vehicles - see TRAF. 337.09
Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle unattended upon any street, bridge or causeway, or in any tunnel, where such vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic, such officer may provide for the removal of such vehicle to the nearest garage or other place of safety.
(ORC 4511.67)
In any hearing on a charge of illegally parking a motor vehicle, testimony that a vehicle bearing a certain license plate was found unlawfully parked as prohibited by the provisions of this Traffic Code, and further testimony that the record of the Ohio Registrar of Motor Vehicles shows that the license plate was issued to the defendant, shall be prima-facie evidence that the vehicle which was unlawfully parked, was so parked by the defendant. A certified registration copy, showing such fact, from the Registrar shall be proof of such ownership.
No person shall stand or park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or to comply with the provisions of this Traffic Code, or while obeying the directions of a police officer or a traffic control device, in any of the following places:
(a) On a sidewalk, curb or street lawn area, except a bicycle; (A.O.)
(b) In front of a public or private driveway or within three feet of either side of the entrance to said public or private driveway;
(Ord. 1473. Passed 3-7-78.)
(Ord. 1473. Passed 3-7-78.)
(c) Within an intersection;
(d) Within ten feet of a fire hydrant;
(e) On a crosswalk;
(f) Within twenty feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
(g) Within thirty feet of, and upon the approach to, any flashing beacon, stop sign or traffic control device;
(h) Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within thirty feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the end of a safety zone, unless a different length is indicated by a traffic control device;
(i) Within fifty feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;
(j) Within twenty feet of a driveway entrance to any fire station and, on the side of the street opposite the entrance to any fire station, within seventy-five feet of the entrance when it is properly posted with signs;
(k) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when such standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
(l) Alongside any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
(m) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a street, or within a street tunnel;
(n) At any place where signs prohibit stopping, standing or parking, or where the curbing or street is painted yellow, or at any place in excess of the maximum time limited by signs;
(o) Within one foot of another parked vehicle;
(p) On the roadway portion of a freeway, expressway or thruway.
(ORC 4511.68)
(ORC 4511.68)
(q) On or in a front yard or a side yard area. Bicycles are exempted herefrom and parking in a driveway that gains access to the yard area from a street by means of a curb cut shall not be a violation hereof, nor shall parking in a front or side yard that has been authorized for such parking by official action of Council, the Planning Commission or the Board of Zoning Appeals be a violation. Parking as used herein shall not include occasional parking of washing, polishing or servicing a motor vehicle, and such parking is exempted from this prohibition. Nothing herein shall have the effect of circumventing zoning laws which laws are intended to prevail, and nothing herein shall be construed as permitting the violation of any other Oxford law.
(Ord. 1452. Passed 11-1-77.)
(Ord. 1452. Passed 11-1-77.)
(r) No person, without privilege to do so, shall abandon a motor vehicle by leaving the same parked upon private residential property without the permission of a person having the right to the possession of such property. As used in this section, private residential property means private property on which is located one or more structures that are used as a home, residence or sleeping place by one or more persons if no more than three separate households are maintained in the structure or structures. Private residential property does not include any private property on which is located one or more structures that are used as a home, residence or sleeping place by two or more persons if more than three separate households are maintained in the structure or structures. For the purposes of this section, the fact that a motor vehicle has been so left without the required permission is prima-facie evidence of abandonment.
(Ord. 2088. Passed 4-17-90.)
(Ord. 2088. Passed 4-17-90.)
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