(a) Angle Parking.
(1) Permitted. Whenever the Board determines upon the basis of a traffic engineering investigation that the width of a highway or portion thereof, and traffic conditions are such that the parking of vehicles at an angle to the curb or edge of the highway will not be unduly hazardous to the flow of traffic, and that there is need for additional parking space which angle parking will provide, the Board shall by resolution direct the Road Commissioner to, and the Road Commissioner shall indicate at what angle traffic conditions make it desirable that vehicles should be parked by placing parallel white lines upon the surface of such highway or portion thereof. On such portions of such highways a person shall not stop, stand or park any vehicle except between, at the angle indicated by, and parallel to both adjacent white lines, with the nearest front wheel not more than one foot from the curb or bumper, which may be placed in lieu of curbs or the edge of the highway. The Road Commissioner may prohibit stopping, standing, or parking in connection with any angle parking layout or plan as provided in § 52.0117(a)(5).
(2) Prohibited. Whenever the Board, upon the basis of a traffic engineering investigation, finds that the conditions, because of which angle parking has been permitted upon a highway or portion thereof as provided in § 52.0122(a)(1) no longer exist, the Board shall by resolution direct the Road Commissioner to obliterate such angle parking lines and other markings from such highways or portions thereof. Thereafter on such portion of the highway, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle, other than according to the Vehicle Code or as provided in this Chapter.
(b) Parallel Parking Lines.
(1) Placement. Whenever parallel parking is required on any highway or portion thereof as provided in the Vehicle Code, the Board hereby authorizes the Road Commissioner to place white lines consistent with the provisions of the Vehicle Code parallel to and/or at right angles to the curb or edge of the highway when a traffic engineering investigation indicates that such white lines would facilitate the parking of vehicles or alleviate a hazardous condition. When such white lines have been placed, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle outside of the rectangular space indicated by such lines and the curb or the edge of the highway. The Road Commissioner may prohibit stopping, standing or parking in connection with any parallel parking plan or layout as provided in § 52.0117(a)(5).
(2) Prohibited. Whenever the Road Commissioner, upon the basis of a traffic engineering investigation, finds that the conditions, because of which parallel white lines were placed as provided in § 52.0122(b)(1) no longer exist, the Road Commissioner shall obliterate such white lines from such highway or portion thereof.
(c) Right-of-Way When Parallel Parking.
(1) Definition. For the purpose of this Section, a LIMITED PARALLEL PARKING SPACE shall mean an area open for lawful parking along side of, and adjacent to, a curb or edge of a highway, which area is not of sufficient length to permit two or more vehicles to park therein at the same time.
(2) Right of Way to Person Backing Into Parking Space. Any person seeking to park his or her vehicle in a limited parallel parking space, whose vehicle arrives at said parking space prior to any other vehicle, and who proceeds beyond said space with his entire vehicle a distance not to exceed ten feet for the purpose of backing his or her vehicle therein, shall have the right of way over any person driving or attempting to drive any other vehicle directly into such limited parallel parking space and the driver of such other vehicle shall yield the right of way to the driver who first arrived at said limited parallel parking space.
(Ord. 596, passed - -1947; Am. Ord. 598, passed - -1947; Am. Ord. 702, passed - -1953; Am. Ord. 1119, passed - -1963)