(A) 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 devices, no person shall:
(1) Stop, stand or park a vehicle:
(a) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
(b) On a sidewalk;
(c) Within an intersection;
(d) On a crosswalk;
(e) 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 a different length is indicated by signs or markings;
(f) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
(g) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel;
(h) On any railroad tracks;
(i) At any place where official signs prohibit stopping;
(j) On any controlled-access highway;
(k) In the area between roadways of a divided highway, including crossovers; and/or
(l) In any alley that is open and maintained.
(2) Stand or park a vehicle (whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge passengers):
(a) In front of a public or private driveway;
(b) Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;
(c) Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
(d) Within 30 feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop sign, yield sign or traffic-control signal located at the side of the roadway;
(e) 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 such entrance (when properly sign-posted); and
(f) At any place where official signs prohibit standing or parking.
(3) Parking a vehicle (whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of, and while actually engaged in, loading or unloading property or passengers):
(a) Within 50 feet of the nearest rail or a railroad crossing;
(b) At any place where official signs prohibit parking; and
(c) In yellow zones.
(B) No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his or her control into any such prohibited area or away from a curb such distance as is unlawful.
(Prior Code, § 24-6-3) Penalty, see § 10.99
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see 625 ILCS 5/11-303