300.440. Stopping, standing or parking prohibited.
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300.440. Stopping, standing or parking prohibited. — 1. 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:
(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 the (traffic authority) indicates a different length 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)At any place where official signs 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, 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 properly signposted);
(f)At any place where official signs prohibit standing.
(3)Park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers:
(a)Within fifty feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;
(b)At any place where official signs prohibit parking.
2. 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 117)