§ 71.03 PARKING PROHIBITED IN SPECIFIC PLACES.
   (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