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

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:

(a)

On a sidewalk;

(b)

In front of a public or private driveway;

(c)

Within an intersection;

(d)

Within fifteen feet of a fire hydrant;

(e)

On a crosswalk;

(f)

Within twenty feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;

(g)

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

(h)

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 a different length is indicated by signs or markings;

(i)

Within fifty feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;

(j)

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-feet of such entrance when properly signposted;

(k)

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

(l)

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

(m)

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

(n)

At any place where official signs prohibit stopping.

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

(Ord. 230 § 12(C), 1965)