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<section number="26-127.04" name="Stopping, standing, or parking prohibited in specified places" law="code" slug="sec-26-127.04" node_id="PTIITI17PULOLAPRGECOMA_SUBTITLE_26VETR_DIV8PARE_S26-127.04STSTPAPRSPPL">
  <level label="a">
    <text>General rule. The provisions of this Section apply except as necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or traffic control device.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Stopping, standing, or parking. No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>In front of a public driveway;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>On a sidewalk;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>In an intersection;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>On a crosswalk;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>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 the Director indicates a different length by signs or markings;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Alongside or opposite any highway excavation or obstruction if to do so would obstruct traffic;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>On any bridge or other elevated structure on a highway;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>In a highway tunnel;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>At any place where stopping is prohibited by an official sign;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>On any entrance or exit ramp of any highway with two or more lanes for traffic moving in the same direction; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="11">
      <text>In a bike lane or bikeway.</text>
      <level label="A">
        <text>An authorized emergency vehicle responding to an emergency, a transit vehicle, a vehicle stopping momentarily to pick up or discharge disabled individuals, or a vehicle that has become unintentionally disabled are exempt from the provisions of this Section. Bikeable shoulders shall be exempted unless they are striped as bike lanes.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Standing or parking. No person shall stand or park a vehicle:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Within three (3) feet of a private driveway without the consent of the owner or occupant of the premises;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Within twenty (20) feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Within thirty (30) feet on the approach to any flashing signal, stop sign, yield sign, or traffic control signal located at the side of a roadway;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Within twenty (20) feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station or on the side of a highway opposite the entrance to any fire station within seventy-five (75) feet of the entrance, if properly sign posted;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>At any place where standing is prohibited by an official sign;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>On the roadway side of any other vehicle that is stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a highway; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>On a curve or hill where solid lines on the surface of the roadway indicate a zone in which passing is prohibited;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>With both of the side wheels more than twelve (12) inches from the curb;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>In a direction other than the flow of traffic;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="11">
      <text>So as to prevent another vehicle already stopped near the curb or otherwise legally parked, from moving away;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="12">
      <text>Not wholly within a designated parking space, or within two (2) feet of the front or rear bumper of another vehicle parked at or parallel to the curb;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="13">
      <text>In a taxi stand when properly posted by official signs;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="14">
      <text>Upon any street or alley in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than nine (9) feet of the width of a roadway for free movement of vehicular traffic;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="15">
      <text>Upon any street where no-passing lines have been marked in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than nine (9) feet of width of the roadway between said vehicle and the no-passing line;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="16">
      <text>Upon the left-hand side of a highway which includes two or more separate roadways with traffic restricted to one direction upon any such roadway unless signs are erected to permit such standing or parking on any such one-way roadway;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="17">
      <text>Between the curb lines and the adjacent property lines except where signs are installed designating this as a permissible parking area.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="18">
      <text>On an unpaved area of a residential lot.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="19">
      <text>Within ten feet of a curb-side residential mailbox, except Sundays and Federal holidays, subject to a complaint by the property owner.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="20">
      <text>On any County roads, County property or in a County right-of-way for the sale or attempted sale of a vehicle or vehicles.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Parking. No person shall park a vehicle:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Within fifty (50) feet of the nearest rail in a railroad grade crossing;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Unless for the use of handicapped individual, in a space or zone marked as restricted for the use of handicapped individuals;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>At any other place where parking is prohibited by an official sign.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Parking Commercial Vehicles Near Commercial or Industrial Businesses. Where a commercial or an industrial business exists on any street or highway in the County that is across the street or highway from or adjacent to a residential home or development, no person shall park any Heavy Commercial Truck, as defined in Section 26.101, less than 75 feet or 25 yards from the closest residential property line.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>Penalty. Any person issued a citation for a violation of this Section shall be subject to a fine of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) and for curbstoning, a fine of up to One Thousand Dollars ($1,000) for each offense.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>Penalty. Notwithstanding Section 26-127.04(f), any person issued a citation for a violation of this Section pertaining to residential parking shall be subject to a fine of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00).</text>
  </level>
</section>
