(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 device, no person shall:
(1) Stop, stand or park a vehicle;
(a) On a sidewalk or parkway;
(b) Within an intersection;
(c) On a crosswalk;
(d) Within five feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
(e) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
(f) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel;
(g) At any place where signs posted at the direction or under the authority of the Chief of Police or designee prohibits such stopping; or
(h) 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 the Chief of Police or designee and Public Works Department has indicated a different length of a zone by signs or markings.
(2) Stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers:
(a) In front of a public or private driveway;
(b) Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;
(c) Within 14 feet of a corner, except at an intersection where a traffic control signal is in operation;
(d) 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 the entrance when properly signposted;
(e) Within 14 feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop sign, yield sign or traffic control signal located at the side of a roadway; or
(f) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street.
(3) Park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers:
(a) At any place where official signs prohibit parking; or
(b) Along any yellow painted curb.
(B) 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.
(Prior Code, § 6-2-3) (Ord. 80-447, passed 11-3-1980) Penalty, see § 71.99