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 angle and parallel parking.
361.06   Accessible parking.
361.07   Inoperative or unlicensed vehicles.
361.08   Parking for certain purposes prohibited.
361.09   Truck loading zones.
361.10   Bus stops and taxicab stands.
361.11   Parking in alleys and narrow streets; exceptions.
361.12   Registered owner prima-facie liable for unlawful parking.
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)
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