2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 63 - MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
Chapter 3 - Traffic Regulations and Rules of the Road.
63-3-901 - Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified places.

§ 63-3-901. Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified places.
 

(1)  No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic control device, in any of the following places: 

a. On a sidewalk; 

b. In front of a public or private driveway; 

c. Within an intersection; 

d. Within ten feet of a fire hydrant; 

e. On a crosswalk; 

f. Within twenty feet of a crosswalk at an intersection; 

g. Within thirty feet upon the approach to any flashing beacon, stop sign, or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway; 

h. Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within thirty feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless the traffic authority indicates a different length by signs or markings; 

i. Within fifteen feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing; 

j. Within twenty feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on the side of a street opposite the entrance of any fire station within seventy-five feet of said entrance when properly signposted; 

k. Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when such stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic; 

l. On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street; 

m. Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel; 

n. At any place where official signs prohibit stopping. 

(2)  No person shall move a vehicle not owned by such person into any such prohibited area or away from a curb such distance as is unlawful. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 8217; Laws,  1938, ch. 200.