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Table of Contents » Title 15 Motor Vehicles, Traffic and Parking » Chapter 14 Stopping, Standing Or Parking » § 15-1406 Locations where stopping, standing or parking prohibited.
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Title 15 : Motor Vehicles, Traffic and Parking
Chapter 14 : Stopping, Standing Or Parking

15-1406 : Locations where stopping, standing or parking prohibited.

  1. No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle, 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, in any of the following places:

    1. On a sidewalk;
    2. In front of a public or private driveway;
    3. Within an intersection;
    4. Within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant;
    5. On a crosswalk;
    6. Within twenty (20) feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
    7. Within thirty (30) feet upon the approach to any flashing beacon, stop sign or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway;
    8. Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within thirty (30) feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless the traffic engineer indicates a different length by signs or markings;
    9. Within fifty (50) feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;
    10. Within twenty (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 seventy-five (75) feet of said entrance.
    11. Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
    12. On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
    13. Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel;
    14. At any place where official signs prohibit stopping.
  2. No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his control into any such prohibited area or away from a curb such a distance as is unlawful. (1973 Code, § 11-209)