§ 12.61.395. Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified places.

(1)

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:

(a)

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 or street planting strip,

(iii)

Within an intersection,

(iv)

On a crosswalk,

(v)

Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within thirty feet of points on the curb, immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless official signs or markings indicate a different no-parking area opposite the ends of a safety zone,

(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,

(vii)

On any railroad tracks, or

(ix)

At any place where official signs prohibit stopping;

(b)

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 or within five feet of the end of the curb radius leading thereto,

(ii)

Within fifteen feet of a fire hydrant,

(iii)

Within twenty feet of a crosswalk,

(iv)

Within thirty 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 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 feet of the entrance, or

(vi)

At any place where official signs prohibit standing;

(c)

Park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers:

(i)

Within fifty feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing, or

(ii)

At any place where official signs prohibit parking.

(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.

(Ord. 3748, 1968)