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(a) The driver or person in charge of a vehicle shall not back such vehicle to the curb of a street for the purpose of loading or unloading such vehicle except upon special permit from the Chief of Police, and if such vehicle is horse-drawn, then the horse or horses shall be parallel with the curb and facing in the direction the traffic is moving at that curb.
(b) The Chief of Police is authorized to issue special permits to permit the backing of a vehicle to the curb for the purpose of loading or unloading merchandise or materials subject to the terms and conditions of such permit. Such permits may be issued either to the owner or lessee of real property or to the owner of the vehicle and shall grant to such person the privilege as stated and authorized herein, and no permittee or other person shall violate any of the special terms or conditions of any such permit.
No person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle upon a street, other than an alley, in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than ten feet of the width of the roadway for free movement of vehicular traffic, except that a driver may stop temporarily during the actual loading or unloading of passengers or when directed to by a police officer or traffic control signal.
Except as otherwise provided by law, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within an alley except while actually loading and unloading, and then only for a period not to exceed thirty minutes.
Upon any street or highway outside a business or residence district, no person shall stop, park or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the paved or main traveled part of the street or highway if it is practicable to stop, park or so leave such vehicle off the paved or main traveled part of such street or highway. In every event, a clear and unobstructed portion of the street or highway opposite such standing vehicle shall be left for the free passage of other vehicles, and a clear view of such stopped vehicle shall be available from a distance of 200 feet in each direction upon such street or highway.
This section does not apply to the driver of any vehicle which is disabled while on the paved or improved or main traveled portion of a street or highway in such manner and to such extent that it is impossible to avoid stopping and temporarily leaving the disabled vehicle in such position. (ORC 4511.66)
(a) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to determine and designate by proper signs places in which the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles would create an especially hazardous condition or would cause unusual delay to traffic, and upon the request of the Director of Public Safety, the Chief of Police is hereby authorized to determine and designate by proper signs, for a period not in excess of forty-eight hours, streets, or parts thereof, in which the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles would interfere with the maintenance of such street or part thereof.
(b) When official signs are erected at hazardous or congested places or in streets or parts thereof to facilitate the maintenance thereof on the request of the Director of Public Safety, as authorized herein, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any such designated place or street. (Ord. 43-74. Passed 7-15-74.)
No person shall park any vehicle designed to transport inflammable liquid in bulk on the streets, alleys or other public ways in the City within 500 feet of any hospital, school building, church, theater or public auditorium. This section shall not apply to the parking of such vehicle while actually loading or unloading nor while such vehicle is parked for the purpose of making necessary emergency repairs thereto.
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