17.24.070 Prohibited parking.
Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with law or the direction of a police officer or official traffic-control device, no person shall 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. Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when parking would obstruct traffic;
F. Upon any bridge or other elevated structure, or within a highway tunnel, unless designated;
G. On any railroad tracks or within fifty (50) feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;
H. On any controlled-access highway at any time except upon any highway shoulder, for emergency repairs, but in no case longer than forty-eight (48) hours;
I. In the area between roadways of a divided highway, including crossovers;
J. Within ten (10) feet of any United States mailbox;
K. In a bus zone, except while actually engaged in unloading passengers or picking up waiting passengers;
L. In a loading zone for a period of time longer than is required for expeditious loading and unloading of passengers or for the loading or unloading and delivering of materials or the delivery of materials, packages, parcels or letters, from a commercial vehicle;
M. In a taxicab zone, except that the attending driver of duly licensed taxicab may so park, except while actually engaged in loading and unloading passengers or picking up waiting passengers;
N. Where curb or edge of roadway is marked with yellow paint;
O. On the left or median side of any divided roadway except where posted;
P. In any alley except while loading and unloading materials not to exceed fifteen (15) minutes, provided ten (10) feet of the width of the roadway is available for the free movement of vehicular traffic and providing the vehicle is not blocking the driveway entrance to any abutting property;
Q. At any place where official signs prohibit parking, except for a period of time not longer than is necessary for delivery or pickup of passengers or materials and in no case longer than fifteen (15) minutes or where parking is prohibited during the hours of seven a.m. to nine a.m. or four p.m. to six p.m.;
R. On any street or alley without the current state license plate or plates required by state statutes;
S. In a posted fire lane;
T. On any unimproved parcel of land;
(U. In front of public or private driveway or within five (5) feet of the rounding of a driveway, alley or private street;)
V. Within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant;
W. Within thirty (30) feet of an electric traffic control device and within twenty (20) feet of a crosswalk, stop sign, yield sign, traffic control device or any other location determined by the Traffic and Transportation Administrator based on engineering standards as necessary for intersection visibility;
X. Within twenty (20) feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station;
Y. In so designated parking space for handicapped, including all parking lots open to the general public, unless so licensed by the state of Missouri;
Z. Continuously upon any street, alley, roadway or driveway where parking is permitted including streets, alleys, roadways or driveways owned by the St. Louis Housing Authority, for longer than five (5) days.
