Current through the 2024 Budget Session
Section 31-5-504 - Specific places where prohibited(a) 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, no person shall: (i) Stop, stand or park a vehicle: (A) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street; (C) Within an intersection; (E) 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 a different length is indicated by signs or markings; (F) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic; (G) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel; (H) On any railroad tracks; (J) On any controlled-access highway; (K) In the area between roadways of a divided highway, including crossovers; (M) At any place where official traffic-control devices prohibit stopping. (ii) Stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers: (A) In front of a public or private driveway; (B) Within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant; (C) Within twenty (20) feet of a crosswalk at an intersection; (D) Within twenty (20) feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop sign, yield sign or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway; (E) Within twenty (20) 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 (75) feet of the entrance when properly signposted; (F) At any place where official traffic-control devices prohibit standing. (iii) Park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading property or passengers: (A) Within fifty (50) feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing; (B) At any place where official traffic-control devices prohibit parking. (b) No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his control into any prohibited area or away from a curb such a distance as is unlawful.