{
  "urn": "urn:us-la:rs:32:143",
  "title_number": "32",
  "section_number": "143",
  "citation": "R.S. 32:143",
  "heading": "Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified places",
  "text": "A. No person shall 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:\n\n(1) On a sidewalk;\n\n(2) In front of a public or private driveway;\n\n(3) Within an intersection;\n\n(4) Within fifteen feet of a fire hydrant;\n\n(5) On a crosswalk;\n\n(6) Within twenty feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;\n\n(7) Within twenty feet upon the approach to any flashing beacon stop sign, or traffic control signal located at the side of a roadway;\n\n(8) Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb, or within twenty feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone;\n\n(9) Within fifty feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;\n\n(10) Within twenty 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 feet of said entrance, when properly posted;\n\n(11) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic;\n\n(12) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;\n\n(13) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel;\n\n(14) At any place where official signs prohibit such;\n\n(15) Any place where parking will obscure or obstruct visibility of any traffic control device.\n\nB. 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.",
  "status": "active",
  "hierarchy_path": [
    {
      "level": "title",
      "number": "32",
      "name": "MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC REGULATION"
    },
    {
      "level": "chapter",
      "number": "1",
      "name": "LOUISIANA HIGHWAY REGULATORY ACT"
    },
    {
      "level": "part",
      "number": "IV",
      "name": "TRAFFIC REGULATIONS"
    },
    {
      "level": "subpart",
      "number": "E",
      "name": "PARKING, STANDING AND STOPPING"
    }
  ],
  "breadcrumb": "Title 32 › Chapter 1 › Part IV › Subpart E",
  "acts_citations": [
    {
      "act_year": 1962,
      "act_number": 310,
      "section": 1,
      "effective_date": null,
      "effective_date_raw": null,
      "role": "enactment"
    },
    {
      "act_year": 2012,
      "act_number": 811,
      "section": 9,
      "effective_date": "2012-07-01",
      "effective_date_raw": "July 1, 2012",
      "role": "amendment"
    }
  ],
  "acts_citations_raw": "Acts 1962, No. 310, §1; Acts 2012, No. 811, §9, eff. July 1, 2012.",
  "source_url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=88071",
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