SECTION 13-106. STOPPING: STANDING OR PARKING PROHIBITED.

1. No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle, except when necessary or avoid a conflict with other traffic or in compliance with law or ordinance, or the directions of a police officer or traffic-control device, in any of the following places:
   1. On a sidewalk.
   2. In front of a public or private driveway.
   3. In or upon a private driveway or another, without permission of the owner, lessee, or person in charge thereof.
   4. Upon the private property of another other than a private drive-way, without permission of the owner, lessee, or person in charge thereof, except where such private property is provided as a parking area and the general use of said property is not restricted by signs or proper markings to allow parking by a specific class of individuals only, such as customers of a particular business establishment, residents of a certain apartment house, etc.
   5. Within an intersection.
   6. Within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant except in a parking space officially marked.
   7. On a crosswalk.
   8. Within twenty (20) feet of a crosswalk at an intersection.
   9. Within thirty (30) feet upon the approach to any flashing beacon, stop sign, or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway.
   10. Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within thirty (30) feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless the city indicated a different length by signs or markings.
   11. Within fifty (50) feet of the nearest rail or railroad crossing.
   12. Within twenty (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 seventy-five (75) feet of said entrance when properly posted sign.
   13. Alongside or opposite any street excavating or obstruction when stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic.
   14. On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street.
   15. Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway underpass.
   16. At any place where official signs prohibit stopping.
2. No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his control into such prohibited area or away from a curb such distance as is unlawful.

SECTION 13-107. UNLAWFUL STOPPING: STANDING, OR PARKING IN OR UPON PRIVATE DRIVEWAYS AND PRIVATE PROPERTY, COMPLAINT REQUIRED: EVIDENCE OF PERMISSION.

1. In all instances where there occurs a violation of Section 13-106 by reason of the stopping, standing or parking of a vehicle in the places designated as (3) and (4) therein, the owner, lessee or person in charge of the private driveway or property in or upon which the violation occurs shall sign a complaint against the person stopping, standing or parking such vehicle, or in the identity of said person be unknown, then said complaint may be filed against the registered owner of said vehicle, in which case the evidentiary presumption set forth in Section 13-118 shall apply.
   Said complaint so filed shall be verified and shall allege that the complaining party is the owner, lessee, or person in charge of the private driveway or property in or upon which such stopping, standing, or parking of said vehicle occurred.
2. In any prosecution based upon a properly verified complaint as set forth in subsection (A) above, the person alleged to have violated the provisions of Section 13-106 by reason of the stopping, standing, or parking of a vehicle in the places designated as (3) and (4) therein, shall have the burden of showing that permission therefor was given by the owner, lessee, or person in charge of the private driveway or property in or upon which the violation is alleged to have occurred.

SECTION 13-108. PARKING IN STREETS AND ALLEYS NOT TO OBSTRUCT TRAFFIC.

No person shall park a vehicle within a street or alley in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than ten (10) 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 a street or alley in such a position as to block the driveway entrance to any abutting property.

SECTION 13-109. PARKING FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES PROHIBITED.

No person shall park a vehicle upon a roadway for the principal purpose of:

1. Displaying such vehicle for sale.
2. Washing, greasing, or repairing such vehicle except repairs necessitated by an emergency.

SECTION 13-110. PARKING TIME LIMITS MAY BE ESTABLISHED: PROHIBITIONS.

1. The Board of Trustees by motion or resolution is hereby authorized to establish parking time limits or to prohibit parking on designated streets and parts of streets by having appropriate signs placed thereon.
2. When such signs are in place, it shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle in violation thereof.

SECTION 13-111. PARKING MORE THAN TWENTY-FOUR (24) HOURS PROHIBITED.

No person shall park a vehicle on any street or city-owned parking lot for a period of time longer than twenty-four (24) hours. This Section shall not affect parking limits established for shorter periods.

SECTION 13-112. STANDING OR PARKING ON ONE-WAY ROADWAYS.

In the event a highway includes two or more separate roadways and traffic is restricted to one direction upon any such roadway, no person shall stand or park a vehicle upon the left-hand side of such one-way roadway unless signs or marks are placed to permit such standing or parking.

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• Traffic – Article 10. Miscellaneous Provisions
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• Traffic – Article 08. Signals on Turning and Stopping: Turning Movements
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