Title 9 TRAFFIC*
Chapter 9.50 PARKING AND RULES OF THE ROAD
9.50.010 Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specific places.
A. Except when 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 park a vehicle, whether
occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of and while actually
engaging in loading or unloading property or passengers:
1. Within fifty feet of the nearest rail or a railroad
crossing;
2. Within an alley in a residence district in such a manner
or under such conditions as to leave available less than ten feet of the width
of the roadway for the free movement of vehicular traffic, and no person shall
stop, stand, or park a vehicle within an alley in such position as to block the
driveway entrance to any abutting property; provided, that it is lawful for the
operator of a vehicle to park so as to leave available less than ten feet of
width, or so as to block the alley in a residence district if necessary, only
while the vehicle is actually engaged in construction, repair, service
functions, or expeditious loading or unloading which could not otherwise be
performed;
3. In an alley, in a business district; provided, that a
properly marked truck or vehicle may park or stand in alleys in a business
district for such time, not in excess of thirty minutes, as may be necessary for
the expeditious loading or unloading of such vehicles, or utilized in
construction, repair, or service functions, or the delivery or picking up of
property; provided further, that such vehicle shall not be parked in an alley in
a business district so as to leave available less than ten feet of width unless
such functions could not otherwise be performed; and further provided, that for
the purposes of this subsection the term "properly marked vehicle or truck"
means either a vehicle regularly used in the performance of a function therein
described and clearly identified as such with its firm name printed thereon, or
a vehicle being used in performed of a function therein described and displaying
a sign of at least fifteen inches by four inches in size in both the front and
back windows conspicuously identifying its function and indicating the name of
the firm or the function being performed; or
4. At any place where official signs 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. (Ord. 95-46 § 1, 1995).