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, it is unlawful for any person to stop, stand or park a vehicle or for any owner or person in possession to allow any vehicle to be stopped, stood or parked:
A. On a sidewalk.
B. In front of or within five feet (5') of a private driveway.
C. Within an intersection.
D. Within fifteen feet (15') of a fire hydrant.
E. On a crosswalk.
F. Within twenty feet (20') of a crosswalk at an intersection.
G. Within thirty feet (30') upon the approach to any flashing beacon or traffic control device located at the side of a roadway.
H. Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within thirty feet (30') of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless authorized signs or markings indicate a different length.
I. Within fifty feet (50') of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing.
J. Within twenty feet (20') of a driveway entrance to any fire station and on a side of a street opposite the entrance when properly signposted.
K. Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct or be hazardous to traffic.
L. Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a street or within a street tunnel or underpass.
M. Upon a street in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than ten feet (10') of the width of the roadway for free movement of vehicular traffic.
N. In such manner or under such conditions as to obstruct any sidewalk, crossing or private driveway, except during the necessary and expeditious loading or unloading of merchandise.
O. On any public street or alley where the width of the roadway is less than twenty feet (20').
P. Over and across any sidewalk or that area between the sidewalk and curb.
Q. Within an alley, except during the necessary and expeditious loading and unloading of merchandise; and no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within an alley in such position as to block the driveway entrance to any abutting property or interfere with the free movement of traffic through the alley.
R. Upon the roadway side of another vehicle which is parked, standing or stopped, except while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers or in compliance with directions of a police officer or traffic control device or when necessary to avoid other traffic.
S. In a roadway, except parallel with the edge of the roadway, headed in the direction of lawful traffic movement and with the right hand wheels of the vehicle within eighteen inches (18") of the curb or edge of the roadway, except when angle parking is expressly authorized by a sign or other method of notice erected by public authority or except upon a marked, one-way street where the left side of the vehicle may be adjacent to and parallel with the curb.
T. Upon any roadway, for the principal purpose of:
1. Greasing or repairing such vehicle, except when such repairs are necessitated by an emergency.
2. The sale of foodstuffs or other merchandise.
U. In a parking space designated for handicap parking unless the driver or his passenger is handicapped so as to require additional parking space or decreased walking distance or the vehicle has handicap license plates. Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter to the contrary, a violation of the handicap parking regulations is an infraction with a fine not to exceed seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00).
V. At any place where signs, curb markings or pavement markings indicate no parking, fire zone, or words of similar effect; or where the adjacent curb is painted with red or yellow paint; or where markings on the pavement indicate parking is prohibited.
W. Where an unobstructed width of the street opposite a standing vehicle is not left for the free passage of other vehicles or where a clear view of such stopped vehicle is not available from a distance of two hundred feet (200') in each direction.
X. When the motor vehicle is standing upon any perceptible grade, unless the brakes to the vehicle are effectively set and the front wheels are turned to the curb or side of the street.
Y. Within five feet (5') of a freestanding curbside mail box.
Z. Upon the main traveled part of the street when it is practical to stop, park or so leave such vehicle off such part of such street; however, this subsection shall not apply to the driver of any vehicle which is disabled while on the main traveled portion of a street in such manner and to such extent that it is impossible to avoid stopping and temporarily leaving such disabled vehicle in such position.
AA. At any place where official signs or markings indicate stopping, standing or parking is prohibited. (2001 Code § 86-3-104; amd. 2009 Code)