§ 29-246. 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:

(a)

On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;

(b)

On a sidewalk;

(c)

Within an intersection;

(d)

On a crosswalk;

(e)

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 the city council indicates a different length as indicated by signs or markings;

(f)

Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;

(g)

Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel;

(h)

On any railroad track;

(i)

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:

(a)

In front of a public or private driveway;

(b)

Within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant;

(c)

Within twenty (20) feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;

(d)

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;

(e)

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 the entrance when properly sign-posted;

(f)

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 merchandise or passengers:

(a)

Within fifty (50) feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;

(b)

At any place where official signs prohibit parking.

(B)

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

State law reference

Similar provisions, V.T.C.A., Transportation Code §§ 545.302, 545.304.