(A) No signs required. It shall be unlawful for any person to stop, stand or park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or traffic-control device, in any of the following places:
(1) On a sidewalk;
(2) In front of a public or private driveway;
(3) Within an intersection:
(4) Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;
(5) On a crosswalk;
(6) Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection (and zone);
(7) Within 30 feet upon the approach to any flashing beacon, stop sign or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway;
(8) Within 50 feet of the nearest rail or a railroad crossing;
(9) Within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station;
(10) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
(11) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
(12) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel; and/or
(13) At any place where official signs prohibit stopping, it shall be unlawful for any person to 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.
(B) Parking in alleys. It shall be unlawful for any person to park any vehicle within any alley located in a commercial zoning district, except a commercial vehicle while such vehicle is actually being loaded or unloaded, and such commercial vehicle shall be parked in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available at least ten feet of the width of the roadway for the free movement of vehicular traffic, and it shall be unlawful for any person to stop, stand or park a vehicle within an alley in such position as to block the driveway entrance to any abutting property. No passenger vehicle shall park in said alleys at any time.
(C) Parking for certain purposes prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle upon any roadway for the principal purpose of:
(1) Displaying such vehicle for sale;
(2) Washing, greasing or repairing such vehicle, except repairing necessitated by an emergency; and
(3) Displaying advertising.
(D) Parking adjacent to schools.
(1) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to erect signs indicating no parking upon that side of any street adjacent to any school property when such parking would, in his or her opinion, interfere with traffic or create a hazardous situation.
(2) When official signs are erected indicating no parking upon that side of a street adjacent to any school property, it shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle in any such designated place.
(E) No stopping, standing or parking near hazardous or congested places.
(1) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to determine and designate by proper signs places not exceeding 100 feet in length in which the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles would create an especially hazardous condition or would cause unusual delay to traffic.
(2) When official signs are erected at hazardous or congested places as authorized herein, it shall be unlawful for any person to stop, stand or park a vehicle in any designated place.
(F) No parking on Main Street SW between 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. hours.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any vehicle to park on Main Street SW between 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. Signs must be posted setting such restricted hours.
(2) Any person who shall violate any provision of division (F)(1) above shall be punishable as provided: 365-day escalation: first offense, written warning; second offense, $20, third offense, $40, fourth offense, $60.
(3) The city will perform functions of street cleaning and snow removal, when conditions dictate, between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. on Main Street SW. In order to provide for efficient street cleaning and snow removal on Main Street SW, the City Council authorizes the Public Works Department to tow vehicles parked on the right-of-way between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m., without providing a written warning, and at the expense of the registered owner.
(1992 Code, § 8-1-308) (Ord. 2016-03, passed 9-12-2016)