(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) 
On a crosswalk;
(E) 
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 council indicates a different length as indicated 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 on a highway or within a highway tunnel;
(H) 
On any railroad track;
(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:
(A) 
In front of a public or private driveway;
(B) 
Within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant;
(C) 
Within twenty (20) feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
(D) 
Within thirty (30) feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop sign, yield sign or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway;
(E) 
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 the 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 fifty (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.
(Ordinance 7242012A adopted 7/24/12)
(a) 
Except as provided by subsections (b) through (e) of this section, an offense under section 12.501 shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not less than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) or more than five hundred dollars ($500.00).
(b) 
If it is shown on the trial of an offense under section 12.501 that the person has been previously convicted one time of an offense under this section 12.501, the offense is punishable by a fine of not less than three hundred dollars ($300.00) or more than six hundred dollars ($600.00).
(c) 
If it is shown on the trial of an offense under section 12.501 that the person has been previously convicted two (2) times of an offense under section 12.501, the offense is punishable by a fine of not less than three hundred dollars ($300.00) or more than six hundred dollars ($600.00), and not less than 10 hours or more than twenty (20) hours of community service.
(d) 
If it is shown on the trial of an offense under section 12.501 that the person has been previously convicted three (3) times of an offense under section 12.501, the offense is punishable by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), and not less than twenty (20) hours or more than fifty (50) hours of community service.
(e) 
If it is shown on the trial of an offense under section 12.501 that the person has been previously convicted four (4) or more times of an offense under section 12.501, the offense is punishable by a fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), and fifty (50) hours of community service.
(Ordinance 7242012A adopted 7/24/12)