Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified places

1. Law
2. Mississippi Code
3. Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations
4. Traffic Regulations and Rules of the Road
5. Stopping, Standing and Parking
6. 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;

   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.

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

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