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 (traffic authority) 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;
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.
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.
No person shall park any vehicle upon a street, other than 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 free movement of vehicular traffic.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
[CC 1985 §76.515; Ord. No. 412-C §§I—IV, 9-19-1994]
A. 
Definitions. As used in this Section, the following terms shall have these prescribed meanings:
PROHIBITED VEHICLES
All buses, semi-tractors and trailer, and other motor vehicles having tandem axles for the drive wheels.
RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT
All areas of the City of Canton, Missouri, other than central business district, highway business district, and light industrial district as defined and determined by Chapter 405 Zoning Regulations of this Code.
B. 
Unlawful Parking. It shall be unlawful for anyone to park any prohibited vehicle, as herein defined, on the street in a residential district, as herein defined, if that street does not have curb and guttering acting as the edge for the street.
C. 
Exceptions. Prohibited vehicle, as herein defined, may temporarily park for purposes of delivery or picking up products on streets referred to in Subsection (B) above, provided that prohibited vehicles may only be parked for a period of time sufficient to either make the delivery or pick up the products being delivered or received.
D. 
Additional Unlawful Parking. It shall be unlawful for any prohibited vehicle to park in the City of Canton downtown business area, being that area bounded on the east by Third Street, on the west by Sixth Street, on the north by Clark Street, and on the south by the alley between Lewis and Washington Streets, except for the purpose of delivery or picking up products, provided that prohibited vehicles may only be parked for a period of time sufficient to either make the delivery or pick up the produce being delivered or received.
[Ord. No. 380-C §§3—5, 8-17-1992]
A. 
Established. There is hereby created within the City of Canton, Missouri, a reserved police parking area reserved exclusively for parking of Police vehicles of the City of Canton, Missouri, on the east side of Fifth Street, beginning at a point eighty (80) feet ten (10) inches south of the intersection of Fifth Street and Clark Street in Canton, Missouri, and extending southwardly on the east side of Fifth Street to at point one hundred five (105) feet south of the intersection of Fifth Street and Clark Street in the City of Canton, Missouri.
B. 
Zone Identification. The reserved Police car parking shall be posted with a sign stating "No Parking—Police Cars".
C. 
Failure To Obey—Penalties. Any person who shall park a motor vehicle in the Police car reserved area shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to a fine of up to three hundred dollars ($300.00) and by imprisonment up to ninety (90) days in the County Jail.
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to park or stand any vehicle in any stall or space designated or reserved for physically disabled persons, as defined in Section 301.142, RSMo., as amended, whether upon public or private property open to public use, unless the vehicle bears the State of Missouri license plate or placard for the disabled as provided for in Sections 301.071 or 301.142, RSMo., as amended. The space shall be indicated by an upright sign whether on a pole or attached to a building upon which shall be inscribed the international symbol of accessibility and may also include any appropriate wording to indicate that the space is reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles which display a distinguishing license plate or card. The sign described in this Subsection shall also state, or an additional sign shall be posted below or adjacent to the sign stating, the following: "$50 to $300 fine".
B. 
Any vehicle operator who is not physically disabled shall not use the handicapped parking space unless there is a physically disabled person in the vehicle, or while the vehicle is being used to transport a physically disabled person.
C. 
Any person convicted of violating this Section is guilty of an offense and shall be subject to a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than three hundred dollars ($300.00). Every day upon which such violation occurs shall constitute a separate offense.
[CC 1985 §76.540; Ord. No. 280-C §§1—2, 6-16-1986; Ord. No. 364-C §3, 11-18-1991]
A. 
Said additional parking space shall be designated as "handicapped parking" and shall be established at the following locations:
1. 
On the west side of Sixth Street commencing at a point forty (40) feet south of the intersection of Sixth and White Streets, thence running south thirty-six (36) feet.
2. 
Ninety-five (95) feet north of the intersection of Lewis and Fifth Streets to a point one hundred twenty (120) feet north of the intersection of Fifth and Lewis Streets on the west side of Fifth Street.
3. 
Commencing at a point seventy-six (76) feet east of the southeast corner of the intersection of Fourth and Lewis Streets on the south side of Lewis Street extending to a point one hundred (100) feet east of the southeast corner of Fourth and Lewis Streets.
4. 
The first (1st) most southerly parking space in the "angle only parking" area of Fifth Street located at the northeast corner of the intersection of Fifth and Clark Streets.
5. 
Commencing on the east side of Fifth Street eighty-four (84) feet south of the southeast corner of the intersection of Fifth and Clark Streets on the east side of Fifth Street extending to a point one hundred twelve (112) feet south of the intersection of Fifth and Clark Streets on the east side of Fifth Street.
6. 
Commencing fifteen (15) feet north of the intersection of the north line of College Street on the east side of Sixth Street; thence north sixty-four (64) feet on the east side of Sixth Street.
[Ord. No. 804-C, 1-16-2018]
7. 
The first parking space on the north side of Clark Street, west of its intersection with Fourth Street in the City of Canton, Missouri.
[Ord. No. 843-C, 12-21-2020
8. 
The first parking space on the south side of Lewis Street east of the north-south platted alley in Block Eleven (11) in the original Town, now City of Canton, Missouri.
[Ord. No. 853-C, 4-18-2022]
[CC 1985 §76.560]
The above-designated parking zones shall be twelve (12) feet wide or greater, or shall be opened on one (1) or both sides so as not to impede the safe egress and exit of the disabled person.