(A) Standing in loading zone. No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle for any purpose or length of time other than for the expeditious unloading and delivery or pick-up and loading of materials in any place marked as a loading zone during hours when the provisions applicable to such zones are in effect. In no case shall the stop for loading or unloading of materials exceed 30 minutes except where so marked by appropriate signs.
(B) Prohibiting parking of vehicles carrying cattle, livestock, and the like. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, company, or corporation to park any vehicle that is carrying or has carried cattle, other livestock, offal, or manure, that omits offensive odors, or attracts flies or other insects on any street in the city.
(C) Transporting explosives. It shall be unlawful to transport any explosive in quantities of more than 50 pounds anywhere in the city except in a vehicle with springs and with a top and with the sign “explosive-dangerous” painted on each of its four sides or carried upon a vertical pole at the front of such vehicle high enough and large enough to be readily readable from both front and rear at a distance of 100 feet; provided, moreover, that if the transportation be at night, such sign shall be illuminated so as to be readily readable from both front and rear for a distance of 100 feet.
(D) Loading and unloading. It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to park such vehicle for a period of time longer than is necessary for the loading or unloading of passengers or property, and shall not consume more than ten minutes in any street where parking is prohibited, or 30 minutes in any of the following places:
(1) Within an alley in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than eight feet of the width of the roadway for the free movement of vehicular traffic, or within an alley in such a position to block the driveway entrance to any abutting property; or
(2) In any loading zone between the hours specified by the official signs any day except as is otherwise provided in this section.
(E) Parking of buses regulated. The driver of a bus shall not park upon any street in the city other than at a bus stop, except that this provision shall not prevent the driver of any such vehicle from temporarily stopping in accordance with other stopping and parking regulations at any place for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers.
(F) Stopping to discharge passengers on a bus. It shall be unlawful for the operator of any bus to receive or discharge passengers at a bus stop without first having stopped such bus with its two right wheels within 12 inches of and parallel with the curb.
(G) Citations for violations by bus drivers. Whenever a police officer observes a bus violating any traffic regulation, it shall not be necessary for the officer to stop the bus, but he or she shall take the number of the bus, write a ticket against the number of the bus, and mail said ticket to the company concerned.
(H) Restricted use of bus and taxicab stands. No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle other than a bus in a bus stop, or other than a taxicab in a taxicab stand when any such stop or stand has been officially designated and appropriately signed, except that the driver of a passenger vehicle may stop therein temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers when such stopping does not interfere with any bus or taxicab waiting to enter or about to leave such zone.
(2010 Code, § 72.03) Penalty, see § 72.99