Legal Documents of Sweetwater

Code of Sweetwater

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:

  1. On a sidewalk.
  2. In front of a public or private driveway.
  3. Within an intersection or within fifteen (15) feet thereof.
  4. Within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant.
  5. Within a pedestrian crosswalk.
  6. Within fifty (50) feet of a railroad crossing.
  7. 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.
  8. Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when other traffic would be obstructed.
  9. On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street.
  10. Upon any bridge.
  11. Alongside any curb painted yellow or red by the city.
  12. 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
    1. Physically handicapped, or
    2. 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