(A) Stopping, standing or parking prohibited.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to stop, stand or park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with law or the direction of a law enforcement officer or traffic-control device in any of the following places:
(a) On a sidewalk;
(b) In front of a public or private driveway;
(c) Within an intersection;
(d) Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;
(e) On a crosswalk;
(f) Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
(g) Within 30 feet upon the approach to any flashing beacon, stop sign or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway;
(h) Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within 30 feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless the Chief of Police has indicated a different length of a zone by signs or markings;
(i) Within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;
(j) Within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station within 75 feet of said entrance when properly signposted;
(k) Alongside or opposite any street excavation when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
(l) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
(m) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel; and
(n) At any place where official signs prohibit stopping.
(2) It shall be unlawful for any person to move a vehicle not lawfully under their control into any such prohibited area or away from a curb such distance as is unlawful.
(B) Parking not to obstruct traffic. It shall be unlawful for any person to 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 and unobstructed movement of vehicular traffic.
(C) Parking in alleys. It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle within 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 the free movement of vehicular traffic, and it shall be unlawful for a person to stop, stand or park a vehicle within an alley in such a position as to block the driveway entrance to any abutting property.
(D) All-night parking prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle within the business district for and period of time between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. of any day, except hospital staff.
(E) Parking of trucks prohibited in business district. The parking of trucks and/or truck-trailers is hereby prohibited within the business district unless within a designated loading or unloading zone while actively loading or unloading.
(F) Parking for certain purposes prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle upon any roadway for the principal purpose of:
(1) Displaying such vehicle for sale; and
(2) Washing, greasing or repairing such vehicle, except repairs necessitated by an emergency.
(G) Parking adjacent to schools.
(1) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to erect signs indicating no parking upon either or both sides of any street adjacent to any school property when such parking would, in the Chief of Police’s opinion, interfere with traffic or create a hazardous situation.
(2) When official signs are erected indicating no parking upon either side of a street adjacent to any school property as authorized herein, it shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle in any such designated place.
(H) Parking prohibited on narrow streets.
(1) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to erect signs indicating no parking upon any street when the width of the roadway does not exceed 20 feet or upon one side of a street as indicated by such signs when the width of the roadway does not exceed 30 feet.
(2) When official signs prohibiting parking are erected upon narrow streets as authorized herein, it shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle upon any such street in violation of any such signs.
(I) Standing or parking on one-way streets. The Chief of Police is authorized to erect signs upon the left-hand side of any one-way street to prohibit the standing or parking of vehicles and when such signs are in place, it shall be unlawful for any person to stand or park a vehicle upon such left-hand side of the street.
(J) Standing or parking on one-way streets and roadways. In the event a highway includes two or more separate roadways and traffic is restricted to one direction upon any such roadway, it shall be unlawful for any person to stand or park a vehicle upon the left-hand side of such one-way roadway unless signs are erected to permit such standing or parking. The Chief of Police is authorized to determine when standing or parking may be permitted upon the left-hand side of any such one-way roadway and to erect signs giving notice thereof.
(K) No stopping, standing or parking near hazardous or congested places.
(1) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to determine and designate by proper signs, places not exceeding 100 feet in length in which the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles would create an especially hazardous condition or would cause unusual delay in traffic.
(2) When official signs are erected at hazardous or congested places as authorized herein, it shall be unlawful for any person to stop, stand or park a vehicle in any such designated place.
(1985 Code, § 10.02.110) (Ord. 373, passed 3-3-2020)