8-1571

Chapter 8.--AUTOMOBILES AND OTHER VEHICLES

Article 15.--UNIFORM ACT REGULATING TRAFFIC; RULES OF THE ROAD

     
8-1571.   Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified places.
(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:

     
(i)   On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or
curb of a street;

     
(ii)   On a sidewalk;

     
(iii)   Within an intersection;

     
(iv)   On a crosswalk;

     
(v)   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 a different length is indicated by signs or markings;

     
(vi)   Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when
stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;

     
(vii)   Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or
within a highway tunnel;

     
(viii)   On any railroad tracks;

     
(ix)   On any controlled-access highway;

     
(x)   In the area between roadways of a divided highway, including
crossovers; or

     
(xi)   At any place where official signs prohibit stopping.

     
(2)   Stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily
to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers:

     
(i)   In front of a public or private driveway;

     
(ii)   Within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant;

     
(iii)   Within twenty (20) feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;

     
(iv)   Within thirty (30) feet upon the approach to any flashing signal,
stop sign, yield sign or traffic-control signal located at the side of a
roadway;

     
(v)   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, when properly signposted;
or

     
(vi)   At any place where official signs prohibit standing.

     
(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:

     
(i)   Within fifty (50) feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;
or

     
(ii)   At any place where official signs prohibit parking.

     
(b)   No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his or her control
into any such prohibited area or away from a curb such a distance as is
unlawful.

     
History:   L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1571; July 1.