(1) Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with law, the directions of a peace officer, or a traffic-control device, a person may not: (a) stop, stand, or park a vehicle: (i) on the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street; (ii) on a sidewalk; (iii) within an intersection; (iv) on a crosswalk; (v) 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 a different length is indicated by signs or markings; (vi) alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic; (vii) on any bridge or other elevated structure, on a highway, or within a highway tunnel; (viii) on any railroad tracks; (ix) on any controlled-access highway; (x) in the area between roadways of a divided highway, including crossovers; (xi) any place where a traffic-control device prohibits stopping, standing, or parking; or (xii) within a bicycle lane; (b) stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers: (i) in front of a public or private driveway; (ii) within 15 feet of a fire hydrant; (iii) within 20 feet of a crosswalk; (iv) within 30 feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop sign, yield sign, or traffic- control signal located at the side of a roadway; (v) 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 the entrance when properly signposted; (vi) at any place where a traffic-control device prohibits standing; or (vii) at capitol hill, as defined in Section 63O-1-101, in a parking space identified as reserved for specific users, without: (A) approval by the executive director of the State Capitol Preservation Board created in Section 63O-2-201; and (B) a properly displayed placard or other identifying marker approved by the executive director of the State Capitol Preservation Board to indicate this approval; or (c) park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading property or passengers: (i) within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing; or (ii) at any place where traffic-control devices prohibit parking. (2) A person may not move a vehicle that is not lawfully under the person's control into any prohibited area or into an unlawful distance from the curb. (3) This section does not apply to a tow truck motor carrier responding to a customer service call if the tow truck motor carrier has already received authorization from the local law enforcement agency in the jurisdiction where the vehicle to be towed is located.
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