Title 31, Title 31 and Other Vehicles

The department of transportation is authorized to acquire, equip, maintain and operate not more than four (4) tow trucks, and to assign state employees to the trucks for the removal of disabled motor vehicles from state highways, state bridges, state causeways, or state tunnels i…

No person shall open the door of a motor vehicle on the roadways, streets, or highways of this state, available to moving traffic, unless and until it is reasonably safe to do so, and can be done without interfering with the movement of other traffic, including pedestrians and bi…

In the event that the state or any municipality creates a temporary parking ban in a given area, any signs within that area allowing parking shall be covered in such a manner that the lettering on the signs shall not be visible, provided that, the provisions of this section perta…

(a) The owner of a rented or leased motor vehicle shall be entitled to establish non-liability for parking violations by providing to the traffic tribunal or any municipality which has jurisdiction over parking tickets, a copy of a written rental or lease agreement which shall be…

(a) Whenever the proprietor of any shopping center including a shopping mall shall provide for parking spaces designated for use by motorcycles only, then no person shall park any vehicle other than a properly registered motorcycle in the space. Any person who unlawfully parks a …

(a) For the purposes of this section, “electric vehicle charging station” means a public or private parking space that is served by charging equipment that has as its primary purpose the transfer of electric energy to a battery or other energy storage device in an electric vehicl…

Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle standing upon a highway in violation of § 31-21-1, the officer is authorized to move the vehicle, or require the driver or other person in charge of the vehicle to move the vehicle, to a position off the paved or main traveled part of t…

Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle, whether attended or unattended, disabled upon any bridge or causeway or in any tunnel where the vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic, the officer is authorized to provide for the removal of the vehicle to the nearest garage, s…

(a) No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or traffic control device, in any of the following places: (1) On a sidewalk; (2) In front of a public or…

No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his or her control into any prohibited area or away from a curb to a distance that is unlawful.

The driver of any vehicle admitting or discharging passengers to or from his or her vehicle shall do so as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway.

Except as otherwise provided in §§ 31-21-8 and 31-21-9, every vehicle stopped or parked upon a roadway where there are adjacent curbs shall be stopped or parked with the right-hand wheels of the vehicle parallel to and within twelve inches (12") of the right-hand curb.

Local authorities may by ordinance permit parking of vehicles with the left-hand wheels adjacent to and within twelve inches (12") of the left-hand curb of a one-way roadway.

Local authorities may by ordinance permit angle parking on any roadway, except that angle parking shall not be permitted on any federal aid or state highway unless the state traffic commission has determined by resolution or order entered in its minutes, that the roadway is of su…