Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified places

8-1571. Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified places. (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: (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 thirty (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) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon 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; or (xi) 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: (i) In front of a public or private driveway; (ii) Within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant; (iii) Within twenty (20) feet of a crosswalk at an intersection; (iv) 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; (v) 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 said entrance, when properly signposted; or (vi) 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 property or passengers: (i) Within fifty (50) feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing; or (ii) 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 a curb such a distance as is unlawful. History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1571; July 1. Source or prior law: 8-572a. Cross References to Related Sections: Section inapplicable to drivers of certain disabled vehicles, see 8-1569(b). Attorney General's Opinions: County fire district not authorized to pay for installation of fire hydrants. 2002-27. CASE ANNOTATIONS 1. Mentioned; prohibitions considered together clearly intend to provide for safe and free flow of traffic. State v. Kotas, 35 Kan. App. 2d 769, 775, 134 P.3d 677 (2006).