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Except where necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or official traffic-control device, no person shall:

1. 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;

b. on a sidewalk;

c. within an intersection;

d. on a crosswalk;

e. 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;

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;

i. on any controlled-access highway;

j. in the area between roadways of a divided highway, including crossovers;

k. any place where official traffic-controlled devices prohibit stopping.

2. 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 feet of a fire hydrant;

c. within twenty feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;

d. within thirty 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 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 feet of said entrance when property signposted;

f. at any place where official traffic-control devices prohibit standing.

3. 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 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;

b. at any place where official traffic-control devices prohibit parking.

4. No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under such person's control into any prohibited area or an unlawful distance from the curb. (Ord. 2-94, amended, 1994; Ord. 8-92, amended, 1992; Ord. 108 §4, amended, 1984; Ord. 97-1, amended, 2000)