§ 27-51-1302 — Stopping, standing, or parking prohibited in specified places

(a) No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or a traffic control device, in any of the following places: (1) On a sidewalk; (2) In front of a public or a private driveway; (3) Within an intersection; (4) Within fifteen feet (15') of a fire hydrant; (5) On a crosswalk; (6) Within twenty feet (20') of a crosswalk at an intersection; (7) Within thirty feet (30') upon the approach to any flashing beacon, any stop sign, or any traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway; (8) Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within thirty feet (30') of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless the local traffic authority indicates a different length by signs or markings; (9) Within fifty feet (50') of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing; (10) Within twenty feet (20') 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 (75') of the entrance when properly signposted; (11) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or any street obstruction when stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic; (12) On a roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge of a curb or a street; (13) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel; (14) At any place where official signs prohibit stopping; or (15) On the shoulders, the median, the ramps, and all other highway rights-of-way along interstate or fully controlled access highways, except in designated parking areas, provided that stopping, standing, or parking that is brief in duration and is due to an emergency, a vehicle disablement, or to correct or avert an unsafe condition shall not be considered a violation of this section. (b) No person shall move a vehicle not owned by the person into any such prohibited area or away from a curb a distance that is unlawful.

Legislative History

Acts 1937, No. 300, § 92; Pope's Dig., § 6749; A.S.A. 1947, § 75-649; Acts 2007, No. 997, § 1.