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Codified Ordinances of Vienna, WV
ARTICLE 361
Parking Generally
 
361.01   Prohibition against parking on streets or highways.
361.02   Police may remove illegally stopped vehicles.
361.03   Prohibited stopping, standing or parking places.
361.04   Vehicles parked on private property.
361.05   Manner of parallel parking.
361.06   Parking which obstructs traffic.
361.07   Parking in alleys.
361.08   Selling or repairing vehicle upon roadway.
361.09   Parking near schools.
361.10   Standing or parking on one-way streets or highways.
361.11   Parking fine.
361.12   Parking oversized vehicles in residential district.
361.13   Stopping, standing or parking in hazardous or congested places.
361.14   Selling or soliciting from vehicle.
361.15   Handicapped parking.
361.16   Parking in fire lanes.
361.17   Abandoned motor vehicles.
361.18   Bus stops.
361.19   Internet safe exchange zones.
361.99   Penalty.
 
CROSS REFERENCES
See sectional histories for similar State law
Authority to regulate the standing or parking of vehicles - see W. Va. Code 17C-2-8(a)(1)
Authority to regulate parallel and angle parking - see W. Va. Code 17C-13-4
Impounding of abandoned vehicles - see TRAF. 303.07
Duty to stop engine, set brake on grade and remove key - see TRAF. 349.01
 
 
361.01 PROHIBITION AGAINST PARKING ON STREETS OR HIGHWAYS.
   (a)   Upon any street or highway outside of 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 when it is practicable to stop, park or so leave such vehicle off such part of the street or highway, but in every event an unobstructed width of the street or highway opposite a standing vehicle shall be left for the free passage of other vehicles and a clear view of such stopped vehicles shall be available from a distance of 200 feet in each direction upon such highway or street.
   (b)   This section shall not apply to the driver of any vehicle which is disabled while on the paved or main-traveled portion of a street or highway in such a manner and to such extent that it is impossible to avoid stopping and temporarily leaving such disabled vehicle in such position. (WVaC 17C-13-1)
361.02 POLICE MAY REMOVE ILLEGALLY STOPPED VEHICLES.
   (a)   Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle standing upon a street or highway in violation of Section 361.01, such officer is hereby authorized to move such vehicle or require the driver or other person in charge of the vehicle to move the same, to a position off the paved or main-traveled part of such street or highway.
   (b)   Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle unattended upon any bridge or causeway or in any tunnel where such vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic, such officer is hereby authorized to provide for the removal of such vehicle to the nearest garage or other place of safety.
(WVaC 17C-13-2)
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