CHAPTER 72: STOPPING, STANDING, AND PARKING

Section

Special Stops Required

   72.01   Through streets and stop intersections

   72.02   Driving onto roadway from place other than roadway; stopping at sidewalk

   72.03   Stopping for school bus; signs and warning lights; sale of school bus

   72.04   Stopping for passenger van; signs and warning lights

   72.05   Obstructing intersection or crosswalk

Stopping, Standing, and Parking

   72.20   Stopping, standing, or parking outside of business or residence districts

   72.21   Officers authorizes to remove illegally stopped vehicles

   72.22   Stopping, standing, or parking prohibited in specific places

   72.23   Right and left parallel parking; angle parking; highway signs restricting parking, and the like

   72.24   Removal of vehicles parked, and the like on highways in emergencies; liability for costs of removal and storage; liens for towing and storage

   72.25   Signs on workers’ and church buses; when lawful for such buses to stop on highways and streets

   72.26   Contesting violations

On-Street Metered Parking

   72.40   Applicability

   72.41   Definitions

   72.42   Establishment of parking meter zones

   72.43   Existing parking meter zones continued in operation

   72.44   Days and hours meters to be in operation; required compliance by vehicle drivers

   72.45   Placement of meters; meter to signal whether parking space lawfully in use

   72.46   Marking of parking spaces; vehicles to park wholly within marked spaces

   72.47   Duty of driver to make deposit

   72.48   Prohibited acts; duty of driver to deposit coin in meter

   72.49   Overtime parking-generally

   72.50   Responsibility of owner

   72.51   Collection of coins from parking meters

   72.52   Disposition of parking meter revenue

   72.99   Penalty

SPECIAL STOPS REQUIRED

§ 72.01 THROUGH STREETS AND STOP INTERSECTIONS.

   (A)   City Council or other designated traffic authority may designate through streets or highways and erect stop signs at specified entrances thereto or may designate any intersection as a stop intersection and erect like signs at one or more entrances to such intersection. Every such sign shall bear the word “STOP” in letters not less than six inches in height, and such sign shall at nighttime be rendered luminous by steady or flashing internal illumination, or by a fixed floodlight projected on the face of the sign, or by efficient reflecting elements on the face of the sign. Every stop sign shall be erected as near as practicable to the nearest line of the crosswalk on the near side of the roadway.

   (B)   Every driver of a vehicle approaching a stop sign shall stop before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or in the event there is no crosswalk shall stop at a clearly marked stop line, but, if none, then at the point nearest the intersecting street or highway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic on the intersecting street or highway before entering the intersection, except when directed to proceed by a police officer or traffic control signal.

(Ord. passed 5-11-2021)

§ 72.02 DRIVING ONTO ROADWAY FROM PLACE OTHER THAN ROADWAY; STOPPING AT SIDEWALK.

   The driver of a vehicle within a business or residence district emerging from any alley, driveway, or building shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or onto the sidewalk area extending across any alleyway or private driveway, and shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian as may be necessary to avoid collision, and, upon entering the roadway, shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles approaching on such roadway.

(Ord. passed 5-11-2021)