(A) Prohibited in certain places.
(1) No person shall stop, stand, or park a motor vehicle, tractor-trailer, commercial vehicle, or recreation-type vehicle (including motor homes or detached trailers) except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a law enforcement officer or a traffic control device in any of the following places:
(a) On a sidewalk;
(b) On a crosswalk;
(c) In front or across the street of a public or private driveway;
(d) Within 30 feet upon the approach to any flashing beacon, stop sign, or traffic control signal located at the side of a street or roadway;
(e) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when such stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic;
(f) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped, standing, or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
(g) In or on the space between a sidewalk and a public street;
(h) Within a street intersection;
(i) Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;
(j) Within 20 feet of a crosswalk;
(k) Within 30 feet of an intersection;
(l) Within the circular portion of any cul-de-sac;
(m) In or on any common area of the town; and
(n) At any place where official signs prohibit stopping.
(2) No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle within the town (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) with the left side of said vehicle to the curb against the traffic flow. Any person violating this section shall be subject to the general enforcement provisions and penalties for parking violations.
(3) These provisions do not apply to emergency vehicles.
(Prior Code, § 26-32)
(B) Prohibited at all times in certain locations. Parking, standing, or stopping a vehicle shall be prohibited at all times and at all locations in accordance with the following specifications.
(1) When signs are placed, erected, or installed giving notice thereof or the curbing has been painted yellow in lieu of such signs, no person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle at any time upon any of the streets designated on the official traffic maps of the town as areas where parking is prohibited at all times.
(2) No vehicle of one ton or more capacity shall be parked upon either side of any residential street.
(3) No person shall park any recreational vehicle, boat, or trailer of any kind on any public street at any time.
(4) No person shall stop, stand, or park any commercial vehicle, bus, trailer, and the like on any street except for the temporary purpose of transacting business (such as moving vans, parcel delivery vehicles, and similar vehicle types).
(Prior Code, § 26-38)
(5) The parking of automobiles, buses, motorcycles, trailers, and other vehicles in the front yard of lots within residentially zoned districts is prohibited at all times. The FRONT YARD is defined as the open unoccupied space on the same lot within a building situated between the nearest roofed portion of the building and the street line of the lot and extending from the side lot line to the side lot line; it is not intended to include all or any part of a paved or gravel driveway or parking pad leading to a legal parking area at the side or rear of the lot or to an attached or detached garage.
(Ord. 20-18, passed 8-9-2018; Ord. 24-23, passed 9-14-2023) Penalty, see § 71.99
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see G.S. § 20-162