Places where parking prohibited--Exception for loading and unloading--Violation as petty offense

Unless necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or unless a police officer or official traffic control device has so directed, no person may park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers: (1) Within fifty feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing; (2) At any place where official signs prohibit parking. A violation of this section is a petty offense. Source: SL 1970, ch 175 , § 31, § 2; SL 1989, ch 255 , § 211.