Loyalton Municipal Code Ch. 7.16 Stopping, Standing & Parking

A. The provisions of this article prohibiting the stopping, standing or parking of a vehicle shall apply to all times or at those times herein specified, except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direction of a police officer or official traffic-control device.

B. The provisions of this article imposing a time limit on standing or parking shall not relieve any person from the duty to observe other and more restrictive provisions hereof or of law prohibiting or limiting the standing or parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified times.

The traffic authority may appropriately sign or mark any place within the City where in the opinion of the traffic authority any of the provisions of this article apply, and when so signed or marked, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle, or any portion thereof, in any of the places or locations so signed or marked, contrary to the directions, language or indications of such signs or markings at such place or location.

7.12.070 (Continued) – 7.16.020

No person shall stand or park a vehicle in a roadway other than parallel with the edge of the roadway heading in the direction of traffic and with the right-hand wheels of the vehicle within eighteen inches (18”) of the curbline or edge of the roadway except as follows:

(1) Upon those streets which have been marked or signed by the traffic authority for angle parking, upon which streets vehicles shall be parked headed to the curb at the angle and within the lines indicated by such marks or signs with the right front wheel of the vehicle within eighteen (18”) inches of the curbline or edge of the roadway.

It shall be unlawful for any person within the city to park, stand or leave standing at any time any vehicle in such manner that any part of such vehicle is vertically over any line painted or placed by the traffic authority on the surface of any street or roadway for the purpose of indicating angle or parallel parking of vehicles.

No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle, or any portion thereof, in a private driveway or on private property without the direct or implied consent of the owner or person in lawful possession of such driveway or property.

No person shall stand or park a vehicle upon any street for the purpose of displaying such vehicle for sale by sign or otherwise.

CHPATER 7.20 TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES

The driver of any vehicle and the person in charge of any animal shall obey the instructions of any official traffic-control device applicable thereto placed in accordance with this chapter, unless otherwise directed by a police officer, subject to the exemptions granted by this chapter.

The driver of any vehicle or the person in charge of any animal shall obey the instructions of any barrier or street sign erected by any of the public departments of the city or public utilities in the city or by any other person pursuant to law.

It shall be unlawful for any person to tamper with, deface, remove or cause to be removed, without authority of the traffic authority so to do, any signs or markings, or traffic-control devices erected under or pursuant to eh provisions of this chapter.