2019 Indiana Code
Title 9. Motor Vehicles
Article 21. Traffic Regulation
Chapter 16. Parking
9-21-16-5. Avoiding conflict with traffic or law enforcement officers; directions of police officers or traffic control devices

Universal Citation: IN Code § 9-21-16-5 (2019)
IC 9-21-16-5 Avoiding conflict with traffic or law enforcement officers; directions of police officers or traffic control devices

Sec. 5. A person may not stop, stand, or park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or to avoid conflict 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 (15) feet of a fire hydrant.

(5) On a crosswalk.

(6) Within twenty (20) feet of a crosswalk at an intersection.

(7) Within thirty (30) 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 thirty (30) 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.

(9) Within fifty (50) feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing.

(10) Within twenty (20) feet of the driveway entrance to a fire station and, on the side of a street opposite the entrance to a fire station, within seventy-five (75) feet of the entrance (when properly sign posted).

(11) Alongside or opposite a street excavation or obstruction if stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic.

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

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

(14) At any place where official signs prohibit stopping.

[Pre-1991 Recodification Citation: 9-4-1-114(a).]

As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.9.

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