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urn: urn:us-la:rs:32:143
citation: "R.S. 32:143"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 32 › Chapter 1 › Part IV › Subpart E"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 1962, number: 310, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: enactment }
  - { year: 2012, number: 811, section: 9, effective_date: 2012-07-01, role: amendment }
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# Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified places

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:

(1) On a sidewalk;

(2) In front of a public or private driveway;

(3) Within an intersection;

(4) Within fifteen feet of a fire hydrant;

(5) On a crosswalk;

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

(7) Within twenty feet upon the approach to any flashing beacon stop sign, or traffic control signal located at the side of a roadway;

(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;

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

(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;

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

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

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

(14) At any place where official signs prohibit such;

(15) Any place where parking will obscure or obstruct visibility of any traffic control device.

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.