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Section 1401 - Standing or parking vehicles -- Restrictions and exceptions.

UT Code § 41-6a-1401 (2019) (N/A)
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(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: (a) stop, stand, or park a vehicle: (i) on the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street; (ii) on a sidewalk; (iii) within an intersection; (iv) on a crosswalk; (v) 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; (vi) alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic; (vii) on any bridge or other elevated structure, on a highway, or within a highway tunnel; (viii) on any railroad tracks; (ix) on any controlled-access highway; (x) in the area between roadways of a divided highway, including crossovers; or (xi) any place where a traffic-control device prohibits stopping, standing, or parking; (b) stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers: (i) in front of a public or private driveway; (ii) within 15 feet of a fire hydrant; (iii) within 20 feet of a crosswalk; (iv) 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; (v) 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; (vi) at any place where a traffic-control device prohibits standing; or (vii) at the capitol hill complex as defined in Section 63C-9-102 in a parking space identified as reserved for specific users, without: (A) approval by the executive director of the State Capitol Preservation Board created in Section 63C-9-201; and (B) a properly displayed placard or other identifying marker approved by the executive director of the State Capitol Preservation Board to indicate this approval; or (c) park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading property or passengers: (i) within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing; or (ii) at any place where traffic-control devices prohibit parking.

(a) stop, stand, or park a vehicle: (i) on the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street; (ii) on a sidewalk; (iii) within an intersection; (iv) on a crosswalk; (v) 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; (vi) alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic; (vii) on any bridge or other elevated structure, on a highway, or within a highway tunnel; (viii) on any railroad tracks; (ix) on any controlled-access highway; (x) in the area between roadways of a divided highway, including crossovers; or (xi) any place where a traffic-control device prohibits stopping, standing, or parking;

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

(ii) on a sidewalk;

(iii) within an intersection;

(iv) on a crosswalk;

(v) 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;

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

(vii) on any bridge or other elevated structure, on a highway, or within a highway tunnel;

(viii) on any railroad tracks;

(ix) on any controlled-access highway;

(x) in the area between roadways of a divided highway, including crossovers; or

(xi) any place where a traffic-control device prohibits stopping, standing, or parking;

(b) stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers: (i) in front of a public or private driveway; (ii) within 15 feet of a fire hydrant; (iii) within 20 feet of a crosswalk; (iv) 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; (v) 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; (vi) at any place where a traffic-control device prohibits standing; or (vii) at the capitol hill complex as defined in Section 63C-9-102 in a parking space identified as reserved for specific users, without: (A) approval by the executive director of the State Capitol Preservation Board created in Section 63C-9-201; and (B) a properly displayed placard or other identifying marker approved by the executive director of the State Capitol Preservation Board to indicate this approval; or

(i) in front of a public or private driveway;

(ii) within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;

(iii) within 20 feet of a crosswalk;

(iv) 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;

(v) 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;

(vi) at any place where a traffic-control device prohibits standing; or

(vii) at the capitol hill complex as defined in Section 63C-9-102 in a parking space identified as reserved for specific users, without: (A) approval by the executive director of the State Capitol Preservation Board created in Section 63C-9-201; and (B) a properly displayed placard or other identifying marker approved by the executive director of the State Capitol Preservation Board to indicate this approval; or

(A) approval by the executive director of the State Capitol Preservation Board created in Section 63C-9-201; and

(B) a properly displayed placard or other identifying marker approved by the executive director of the State Capitol Preservation Board to indicate this approval; or

(c) park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading property or passengers: (i) within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing; or (ii) at any place where traffic-control devices prohibit parking.

(i) within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing; or

(ii) 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.

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Section 1401 - Standing or parking vehicles -- Restrictions and exceptions.