Publisher's Note:This Section has been AMENDED by new legislation (Ord. , passed 2-19-2019). The text of the amendment will be incorporated below when the amending legislation is codified.
(A) Except when necessary to avoid contact with other traffic or when in compliance with a Police Officer, others authorized to direct traffic, or traffic-control devices, no person shall:
(1) Stop, stand, or park any vehicle:
(a) On the roadway sides of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
(c) Within an intersection;
(e) Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb within 30 feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone unless competent 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 of a highway;
(h) On any railroad track; or
(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 15 feet of a fire hydrant;
(c) Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
(d) Within 30 feet of any flashing signal, stop sign, yield sign, or other traffic-control device located at the side of a roadway; or
(e) Within 20 feet of a driveway entrance to a fire station and on the side of a street opposite the entrance of any fire station within 75 feet of such entrance that is properly signposted.
(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 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing; or
(b) At any place where official signs prohibit parking.
(B) No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his or her control into any such prohibited area or away from the curb such a distance as shall be unlawful.
(Neb. RS 60-6,166) (‘63 Code, § 10-4-29) (Ord. 98-27, passed 7-20-98; Am. Ord. 02-53, passed 10-7-02)
Penalty, see § 10.99
