41-6a-1401. Standing or parking vehicles -- Restrictions and exceptions.
(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: stop, stand, or park a vehicle: on the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street; on a sidewalk; within an intersection; on a crosswalk; 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; alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic; on any bridge or other elevated structure, on a highway, or within a highway tunnel; on any railroad tracks; on any controlled-access highway; in the area between roadways of a divided highway, including crossovers; any place where a traffic-control device prohibits stopping, standing, or parking; or within a bicycle lane; stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers: in front of a public or private driveway; within 15 feet of a fire hydrant; within 20 feet of a crosswalk; 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; 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; at any place where a traffic-control device prohibits standing; or at capitol hill, as defined in Section, in a parking space identified as reserved for specific users, without: 63O-1-101 approval by the executive director of the State Capitol Preservation Board created in Section; and 63O-2-201 a properly displayed placard or other identifying marker approved by the executive director of the State Capitol Preservation Board to indicate this approval; or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading property or passengers: within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing; or 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.