(A) Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or official traffic-control device, no person shall:
(1) Stop, stand, or park a vehicle:
(a) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
(b) On a sidewalk;
(c) Within an intersection;
(d) On a crosswalk;
(e) 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 a different length is indicated by signs or markings;
(f) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic;
(g) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel;
(h) On any railroad tracks;
(i) At any place where official signs prohibit stopping;
(j) On any controlled-access highway; or
(k) In the area between roadways of a divided highway, including crossovers.
(2) Stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge passengers:
(a) In front of a public or private driveway;
(b) Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;
(c) Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
(d) Within 30 feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop sign, yield sign, or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway;
(e) Within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on the side of the street opposite the entrance to any fire station within 75 feet of such entrance (when properly sign-posted); or
(f) At any place where official signs prohibit standing.
(g) Within any area designated for pedestrian walkways.
(h) In or on a fire lane as designed by official sign or pavement marking. The term “fire lane” shall mean an area in a parking lot or facility or on a public street or alley where no standing, idling or parking of a motor vehicle shall be permitted at any time so firefighting equipment or emergency rescue or paramedic vehicles may move and park freely on that area.
(3) Park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily, for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading property or passengers:
(a) Within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing; or
(b) Any place where official signs prohibit parking.
(B) No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his control into any such prohibited area or away from a curb such distance as is unlawful.
(C) The following shall be exempt from the provisions of this section:
(1) Physicians on emergency calls; and
(2) Emergency vehicles.
(a) The driver of an authorized emergency vehicle, when responding to an emergency call, when in pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law, or when responding to but not upon returning from a fire alarm, may park or stand, irrespective of the provisions of this title.
(b) The provision of division (a) above shall not relieve the driver of an emergency vehicle from the duty to park or stand with due regard for the safety of all persons, nor shall such provision protect the driver from the consequences of his reckless disregard for the safety of others.
(1980 Code, § 74.03) (Res. 90-29, adopted 2-15-1990; Ord. 11-287, passed 8-18-2011) Penalty, see § 74.99