[R.O. 2007 § 355.010; Ord. No. 496 § 1, 3-22-1979; Ord. No. 3133 § 1, 10-14-1999]
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 Traffic Engineer indicates a different length 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 tracks; or
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 or passengers:
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, 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 said entrance (when properly signposted);
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; or
c. 
Within ten (10) feet in each direction from any mailbox except on Sunday, any Federal holiday or between the hours of 5:00 P.M. and 8:00 A.M.
B. 
No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his/her control into any such prohibited area or away from a curb such a distance as is unlawful.
[R.O. 2007 § 355.020; Ord. No. 496 § 1, 3-22-1979]
No person shall park a vehicle within an alley in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than ten (10) feet of the width of the roadway for the free movement of vehicular traffic, and no person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle within an alley in such position as to block the driveway entrance to any abutting property.
[R.O. 2007 § 355.030; Ord. No. 496 § 1, 3-22-1979]
A. 
No person shall park a vehicle upon a roadway for the principal purpose of:
1. 
Displaying such vehicle for sale; or
2. 
Repair such vehicle except repairs necessitated by an emergency.
[R.O. 2007 § 355.040; Ord. No. 496 § 1, 3-22-1979]
A. 
The City Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to erect signs indicating no parking upon either or both sides of any street adjacent to any school property when such parking would, in his/her opinion, interfere with traffic or create a hazardous situation.
B. 
When official signs are erected indicating no parking upon either side of a street adjacent to any school property as authorized herein, no person shall park a vehicle in any such designated place.
[R.O. 2007 § 355.050; Ord. No. 496 § 1, 3-22-1979]
A. 
The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to erect signs indicating no parking upon any street when the width of the roadway does not exceed twenty (20) feet, or upon one (1) side of a street as indicated by such signs when the width of the roadway does not exceed thirty (30) feet.
B. 
When official signs prohibiting parking are erected upon narrow streets as authorized herein, no person shall park a vehicle upon any such street in violation of any such sign.
[R.O. 2007 § 355.060; Ord. No. 496 § 1, 3-22-1979]
The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to erect signs upon the left-hand side of any one-way street to prohibit the standing or parking of vehicles, and when such signs are in place, no person shall stand or park a vehicle upon such left-hand side in violation of any such sign.
[R.O. 2007 § 355.070; Ord. No. 496 § 1, 3-22-1979]
In the event a highway includes two (2) or more separate roadways and traffic is restricted to one (1) direction upon any such roadway, no person shall stand or park a vehicle upon the left-hand side of such one-way roadway unless signs are erected to permit such standing or parking. The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to determine when standing or parking may be permitted upon the left-hand side of any such one-way roadway and to erect signs giving notice thereof.
[R.O. 2007 § 355.080; Ord. No. 496 § 1, 3-22-1979]
A. 
The City Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to determine and designate by proper signs places not exceeding one hundred (100) feet in length in which the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles would create an especially hazardous condition or would cause unusual delay to traffic.
B. 
When official signs are erected at hazardous or congested places as authorized herein, no person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle in any such designated place.
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Editor’s Note: Former Section 355.090, Obstructing Freeway, as adopted and amended R.O. 2007, § 355.090; CC 1979 § 16-37; and Ord. No. 84 Art. III § 3, 1-3-1972, was repealed 4-24-2014 by § 2 of Ord. No. 6119.
[R.O. 2007 § 355.100; Ord. No. 670 §§ 1 — 4, 7-23-1981; Ord. No. 6119 § 3, 4-24-2014]
A. 
It shall be unlawful for the operator of a vehicle to stop, stand or park such vehicle in an area designated as a fire lane within the City of St. Peters, so marked and designated by a standing sign.
B. 
Any such vehicle parked in violation of this Section shall be removed therefrom in accordance with the procedures in Section 370.030.
C. 
Any person found guilty of violating Subsection (A) of this Section shall be deemed guilty of committing an offense.
[R.O. 2007 § 355.105; Ord. No. 3548 § 1, 10-11-2001]
A. 
It shall be unlawful for the operator of any motor vehicle to stop or park such motor vehicle on any grass or unpaved surface within any City park other than on those areas specifically designated for such parking.
B. 
Any person found guilty of violating Subsection (A) of this Section shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars ($20.00).
[R.O. 2007 § 355.110; Ord. No. 3668 § 1, 7-11-2002; Ord. No. 4073 § 1, 6-24-2004; Ord. No. 5529 § 1, 1-13-2011]
A. 
Definitions. The following words and phrases, when used in this Section, mean:
DISABLED PARKING SPACE
Any space designated for use by physically disabled persons pursuant to Section 301.143, RSMo., as amended.
PHYSICALLY DISABLED
The same meaning given it in Section 301.142, RSMo., as amended.
VEHICLE
The same meaning given it in Section 301.010, RSMo., as amended.
B. 
Parking Space For Physically Disabled — Violations — Enforcement — Penalty.
1. 
Any Police Officer may cause the removal of any vehicle not displaying a distinguishing license plate or placard on which is inscribed the international symbol of accessibility and the word "disabled" issued pursuant to Section 301.142, RSMo., as amended, or a "disabled veteran" license plate issued pursuant to Section 301.071, RSMo., as amended, or a distinguishing license plate or placard issued by any other State, as defined in Subsection (C)(1) below, from a disabled parking space if there is posted immediately adjacent to, and readily visible from, such space a sign on which is inscribed the international symbol of accessibility and may include any appropriate wording to indicate that the space is reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles which display a distinguishing license plate or placard. Any person who parks in a disabled parking space and is not displaying distinguishing license plates or a placard is guilty of an infraction and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars ($50.00). Any vehicle which has been removed and which is not properly claimed within thirty (30) days thereafter shall be considered to be an abandoned vehicle.
2. 
Any person who, without authorization, uses such a distinguishing license plate or placard to park in a disabled parking space shall be in violation of this Section and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than three hundred dollars ($300.00).
3. 
Police Officers may enter upon private property open to public use to enforce the provisions of this Section, including private property designated by the owner of such property for the exclusive use of vehicles which display a distinguishing license plate or placard.
C. 
Use Of Designated Disabled Parking Spaces, When.
1. 
Disabled parking spaces may only be used when a disabled person, who has been issued disabled license plates or windshield hanging placards pursuant to the provisions of Section 301.142, RSMo., as amended, or by those States with which the Director of the Missouri Department of Revenue has entered into reciprocity agreements as provided in Section 301.142, RSMo., as amended, is then, or immediately preceding being parked, was an occupant of the motor vehicle bearing the disabled license plate or windshield hanging placard or in cases where the motor vehicle bearing the disabled license plate or windshield hanging placard is then being used to deliver or collect one (1) or more of the disabled persons for whom the disabled license plate or windshield hanging placard was issued.
2. 
The driver, or any occupant, of a motor vehicle bearing disabled license plates or a windshield hanging placard which is parked or has been observed to have been parking in a duly disabled parking space shall, upon request from any Police Officer upon identification as such, produce the disabled registration certificate issued to the disabled person or entity as provided for in Section 301.142, RSMo., as amended, or such other authorization to show that the driver or any occupant of the vehicle is lawfully entitled to use a disabled parking space. The driver or any occupant of the motor vehicle shall, in addition to the certificate, produce other identification with a photograph of the disabled person for whom the disabled plates or windshield hanging placard was issued.
3. 
If the driver, or an occupant, of a motor vehicle which is parked or has been observed to have parked in a disabled parking space is unable to, or cannot, produce the certificate as provided for in Section 301.142, RSMo., as amended, or other proper authorization showing that the vehicle is being used, or has been lawfully parking in a disabled parking space, the operator is in violation of this Section and subject to by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than three hundred dollars ($300.00). However, no person shall be found guilty of violating this Subsection (C), if the operator produces such a certificate to the court that was valid at the time of the citation for a person who was using the vehicle.
4. 
The windshield hanging placard shall only be used when the vehicle is parked in a disabled parking space. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or drive a motor vehicle with a windshield hanging placard hanging from the inside rearview mirror.