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Code of Sweetwater
Title 15 Motor Vehicles, Traffic and Parking
Chapter 6 Parking
Title 15 Motor Vehicles, Traffic and Parking
Chapter 6 Parking
Sweetwater
Title 15 : Motor Vehicles, Traffic and Parking
Chapter 6 : Parking
15-604 : Where prohibited.
No person shall park a vehicle in violation of any sign placed or erected by the state or city, nor:
- On a sidewalk.
- In front of a public or private driveway.
- Within an intersection or within fifteen (15) feet thereof.
- Within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant.
- Within a pedestrian crosswalk.
- Within fifty (50) feet of a railroad crossing.
- Within twenty (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 seventy-five (75) feet of the entrance.
- Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when other traffic would be obstructed.
- On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street.
- Upon any bridge.
- Alongside any curb painted yellow or red by the city.
- In a parking space clearly identified by an official sign as being reserved for the physically handicapped, unless, however, the person driving the vehicle is
- Physically handicapped, or
- Parking such vehicle for the benefit of a physically handicapped person.
A vehicle parking in such a space shall display a certificate of identification or a disabled veteran's license plate issued under Tennessee Code Annotated, title 55, chapter 21. (1982 Code, § 9-504, modified)
Date Last Updated: 08/05/2024
Codification Date: 03/01/2004
Officials at Date of Last Codification:
Mayor - Doyle F. Lowe
Vice Mayor - Sam Moser
Commissioner - Lamar Hughes
Commissioner - Johanna Jinks
Commissioner - Alan Richeson
Commissioner - James A. Stutts
Recorder - Sonya Crush
City Attorney - John Cleveland