Sec. 489(25). Stopping on highway.
(a) No vehicle shall be stopped in such manner as to impede
or interfere with or render dangerous the use of the highway by
others; and, except upon one way streets, as provided in this
section no vehicle shall be stopped except close to the right hand
curb, unless otherwise provided by the Council or by police regulations.
The Mayor and Chief of Police may adopt and put into effect
regulations designating the time, place and manner vehicles may
be allowed to park on the City streets and to make and enforce
such additional rules and regulations as parking conditions may
require.
(b) No person shall leave standing any vehicle, attended or
unattended, upon the paved, improved or main traveled portion
of any highway, outside of a business or residence district, when
it is practicable to leave such vehicle standing off of the paved,
improved or main traveled portion of such highway.
(c) No vehicle shall be stopped with its left side to the curb,
except upon one way streets, or unless otherwise permitted by
police regulation.
(d) No vehicle shall be backed up to a curb, except during
the time actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise
therefrom.
(e) Unless in an emergency or where otherwise indicated by
signs, or to allow another vehicle or pedestrians to cross in front,
no vehicle shall be stopped in any street except close to and parallel
with the curb, and in no instance shall such vehicle be parked
less than four feet apart, nor with the near wheels further than
six inches from the curb, except as herein otherwise provided.
(f) Vehicles shall not be stopped in such manner as to block
or obstruct the orderly and lawful passage of other traffic nor
upon any crossing nor between a safety zone and curb, nor within
fifteen feet of the ends of any obstruction opposite the vehicle.
Vehicles stopped two or more abreast, parallel with the curb,
shall be deemed to obstruct traffic and in violation hereof.
(g) Stopping a vehicle at any time, upon any highway, for
the purpose of advertising any article of any kind, or displaying
thereupon advertisements of any article, or advertisement for
sale of the vehicle itself, is prohibited.
(h) However, if any officer charged with the enforcement of
this subsection shall find a vehicle standing upon a highway in
violation of the provisions of this subsection, he is hereby authorized
to move or cause such vehicle to be moved.
(i) The driver of any vehicle which is temporarily disabled
while on the paved surface of a highway shall remove same as
expeditiously as conditions and circumstances may permit.
(j) No load of logs, timber, lumber or any long and heavy
substance made up of two or more pieces of any material shall
be hauled on the streets of this City, in wagons, trucks, or other
vehicles, unless securely bound together, at both ends, with chains
or cables of sufficient length and strength to hold them securely
so as to prevent separation of the several parts of such load, provided,
however, that lumber of less than twenty feet only one
chain or cable shall be required to bind or tie the same. Such
loads shall be securely fastened to or upon such wagon, truck,
or other vehicle, so as to prevent slipping and falling therefrom.
