CHAPTER 351
Parking Generally
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   Manner of parallel parking; handicapped persons.
351.05   Display of items for sale near street. (Repealed)
351.06   Selling, washing or repairing vehicle upon roadway.
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   Continuous parking in same location.
351.14   Parking on public or private property; owner's consent.
351.15   Storage of unlicensed or inoperative motor vehicles.
351.16   Parking of commercial vehicles, trailers, recreational vehicles and boats.
351.17   Snow emergency parking ban.
351.18   Parking of motor vehicles on lawns prohibited.
351.19   Parking at electrical vehicle charging stations.
351.99   Penalty.
   CROSS REFERENCES
   See sectional histories for similar State law
   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
   Fire lanes - see FIRE PREV. 1511.10
351.01 POLICE MAY REMOVE UNATTENDED VEHICLE WHICH OBSTRUCTS TRAFFIC.
   (a)   Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle standing upon a highway in violation of Ohio R.C. 4511.66 or a substantially similar municipal ordinance, such officer may move such vehicle, or require the driver or other person in charge of the vehicle to move the same, to a position off the paved or improved or main traveled part of such highway.
   (b)   Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle unattended upon any highway, bridge, or causeway, or in any tunnel, where such vehicles 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)
351.02 REGISTERED OWNER PRIMA-FACIE LIABLE FOR UNLAWFUL PARKING.
   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.
351.03 PROHIBITED STANDING OR PARKING PLACES.
   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, except a bicycle;
   (b)   In front of a public or private driveway;
   (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 or 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 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.
   (q)   Within any fire lane on private property, devoted to public use, as so designated, marked and approved by the Chief of the Fire Division and the Police Chief.
   (r)   In that area known as the street lawn.
(Ord. 9-80. Passed 2-11-80.)
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