Idaho Statutes

§ 49-659 — STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING OUTSIDE BUSINESS OR RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS

Idaho § 49-659
JurisdictionIdaho
Title 49MOTOR VEHICLES
Ch. 6RULES OF THE ROAD

This text of Idaho § 49-659 (STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING OUTSIDE BUSINESS OR RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Idaho primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook
Idaho Code § 49-659 (2026).

Text

(1)Outside a business or residential district no person shall stop, park or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the roadway when it is practicable to stop, park or so leave the vehicle off the roadway, but in every event in an unobstructed width of the highway opposite a standing vehicle shall be left for the free passage of other vehicles and a clear view of the stopped vehicle shall be available from a distance of two hundred (200) feet in each direction upon the highway.
(2)This section and sections 49-660 and 49-661, Idaho Code, shall not apply to the driver of any vehicle which is disabled in such a manner and to an extent that it is impossible to avoid stopping and temporarily leaving the vehicle in that position.

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Related

State v. Mireles
991 P.2d 878 (Idaho Court of Appeals, 1999)
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State v. Phillip James Morgan
294 P.3d 1121 (Idaho Supreme Court, 2013)
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Ricketts v. Eastern Idaho Equipment, Co., Inc.
51 P.3d 392 (Idaho Supreme Court, 2002)
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State v. Smith
(Idaho Supreme Court, 2025)

Legislative History

[49-659, added 1988, ch. 265, sec. 182, p. 670.]

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