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Article III. Prohibited Parking Places and Areas
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(1) It is unlawful for the operator of a vehicle to stop, stand, park or angle park such vehicle in or on any of the following places except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or to comply with other provisions of this code or with the direction of a police officer or traffic-control sign or signal:

(a) Within an intersection;

(b) On a crosswalk;

(c) Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within 25 feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the end of a safety zone unless some other distance is indicated by a sign as authorized in this chapter;

(d) Within 20 feet of a crosswalk, or of the intersection of property lines at street intersections;

(e) Within 30 feet upon the approach to any flashing beacon, stop sign, traffic-control signal or traffic devices located at the side of the roadway;

(f) In front of the driveway entrance to any fire or police station or within any marked area contiguous to such driveway;

(g) In front of or within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;

(h) In front of a public or private driveway, or within five feet of the end of the curb radius leading thereto;

(i) On a sidewalk or parking strip;

(j) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when such stopping, parking or angle parking would obstruct traffic;

(k) In any alley, except that trucks or properly marked commercial vehicles may park or angle park in alleys for such time, not in excess of 15 minutes, as may be necessary for the expeditious loading or unloading of such vehicles or the delivery or pickup of articles or materials;

(l) Upon any bridge, overpass, underpass, trestle or approaches thereto;

(m) Within any space marked as a fire exit;

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

(o) Outside of the limits of the individual parking spaces (stalls) designated for vehicular nonmetered on-street parking by the street division of the city;

(p) Within 30 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;

(q) At any place where all official signs prohibit stopping;

(r) In the traveled portion of any roadway;

(s) At any place where official signs prohibit parking;

(t) Within 10 feet of a residential mailbox, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., except Sundays and holidays;

(u) Within any cul-de-sac.

(2) No person shall move a vehicle not owned by him into any such prohibited area or away from a curb such distance as is unlawful. (Ord. 1443 § 1, 2017; Ord. 986, 1998).