§ 72.15. PROHIBITED STOPPING, STANDING, OR PARKING.  


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  • (A) 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) Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within 30 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;
    (e) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
    (f) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel;
    (g) On any railroad tracks;
    (h) 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 upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop sign or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway;
    (e) Within 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 75 feet of that entrance (when properly sign posted);
    (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 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;
    (b) At any place where official signs prohibit parking.
    (B) 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.
    ('67 Code, § 75.05) Penalty, see § 72.99
    Statutory reference:
    Parking prohibited in specified places, see IC 9-21-16-5