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(1) Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with law or ordinance or the direction of a police officer or official traffic control device, no person shall:

(a) Stop, stand or park a vehicle:

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

(ii) On a sidewalk or street planting strip;

(iii) Within an intersection;

(iv) On a crosswalk;

(v) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic; or

(vi) At any place where official signs prohibit stopping.

(b) Stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers:

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

(ii) Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;

(iii) Within 30 feet upon the approach to a flashing signal, stop sign, yield sign, or traffic control signal located at the side of a roadway;

(iv) Within 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 75 feet of said entrance; or

(v) At any place where official signs prohibit parking.

(2) Parking or standing shall be permitted in the manner provided by law or ordinance at all other places except a time limit where a time limit is imposed or parking restricted as in this chapter provided.

(3) No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his control into any such prohibited area or away from a curb such a distance as is unlawful. (Ord. 253 § 1, 1969)