Current through the 2024 Regular Session
Section 63-3-901 - Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified places(1) No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic control device, in any of the following places: b. In front of a public or private driveway;c. Within an intersection;d. Within ten feet of a fire hydrant;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 the traffic authority indicates a different length by signs or markings;i. Within fifteen 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 of any fire station within seventy-five feet of said entrance when properly signposted;k. Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when such 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;n. At any place where official signs prohibit stopping.(2) No person shall move a vehicle not owned by such person into any such prohibited area or away from a curb such distance as is unlawful.Codes, 1942, § 8217; Laws, 1938, ch. 200.