No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or traffic-control device, in any of the following places:
(1) 
On a sidewalk or sidewalk area;
(2) 
In front of a public or private driveway;
(3) 
Within an intersection;
(4) 
Within fifteen feet (15') of a fire hydrant, except within an officially marked parking stall;
(5) 
On a crosswalk;
(6) 
Within twenty feet (20') of a crosswalk at an intersection, except within an officially marked parking stall;
(7) 
Within thirty feet (30') upon the approach of any flashing beacon, stop sign or traffic-control signal, located at the side of a roadway, except within an officially marked parking stall;
(8) 
Within twenty feet (20') 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 feet (75') of such entrance (when properly signposted);
(9) 
Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
(10) 
On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
(11) 
Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway; and
(12) 
At any place where official signs prohibit stopping or parking.
(2004 Code, sec. 12.401)
Whenever authorized by the city council to do so, the city manager shall designate streets and alleys, or parts thereof, on or in which the parking of vehicles is prohibited or limited to a specified length of time. Such prohibition or limitation shall apply at all times or only between certain hours or on certain days, as prescribed by the city council.
(2004 Code, sec. 12.402; Ordinance 2026-0212-01 adopted 2/12/2026)
It shall be unlawful for any person to park any vehicle in any space or area where parking is prohibited in accordance with section 12.04.002 or to permit any vehicle owned or operated by him to be parked or to remain in any space or area for a longer period of time than that designated by the markings or signs erected in accordance with section 12.04.002.
(2004 Code, sec. 12.403)
(a) 
No person shall stand or park a vehicle in a roadway other than parallel with the edge of the roadway headed in the direction of lawful traffic movement and with the right-hand wheels of the vehicle within eighteen inches (18") of the curb or edge of the roadway, except as otherwise provided in this section.
(b) 
The city council shall determine upon which streets angle parking shall be permitted and shall mark or sign such streets, but such angle parking shall not be indicated upon any federal-aid or state highway within this city unless the state highway engineer has determined that the roadway is of sufficient width to permit angle parking without interfering with the free movement of traffic. Angle parking shall not be indicated or permitted at any place where passing traffic would thereby be caused or required to drive upon the left side of the street or upon any railway tracks.
(c) 
Upon those streets which have been signed or marked for angle parking, it shall be unlawful for persons to park or stand a vehicle other than at the angle to the curb or edge of the roadway indicated by such signs or markings.
(d) 
Whenever parking spaces are marked by lines on the pavement, whether for parallel or angle parking, a vehicle must be parked entirely within the lines of the parking space.
(2004 Code, sec. 12.404)
No person shall stop, stand, or park any vehicle upon a street or in an alley in such manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than 15 feet of the width of the roadway for the free movement of vehicular traffic, except where stricter prohibitions apply pursuant to this article.
(2004 Code, sec. 12.405; Ordinance 2026-0212-01 adopted 2/12/2026[1])
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Editor's note-This ordinance established a compliance and education period of six months from its effective date. During this period the city shall focus on public notice and voluntary compliance. Full enforcement, including citation and towing, shall commence upon expiration of the compliance period.
No person shall park any vehicle, other than one on official business, within any block where any fire apparatus has stopped in answer to a fire alarm.
(2004 Code, sec. 12.406)
(a) 
The city manager shall cause loading zones to be designated and maintained in and on such parts of streets of the city as are authorized from time to time by the city council. He shall place and maintain appropriate signs or markings indicating the same and stating the hours during which the provisions of this section are applicable.
(b) 
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for any purpose or period of time other than for the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers in any place marked as a passenger curb loading zone during hours when the regulations applicable to such curb loading zone are effective, and then only for a period not to exceed three (3) minutes.
(c) 
The use of loading zones for the loading and unloading of freight shall be for handling of heavy or bulky merchandise, supplies and materials. All such loading and unloading must be performed in an expeditious manner and no vehicle may remain in a loading zone either for a period of time longer than necessary to expeditiously load and unload the same, or while the operator thereof is soliciting or engaged otherwise than in the loading or unloading of the vehicle, except that a reasonable time shall be allowed for giving or securing a delivery receipt.
(d) 
The driver of a passenger vehicle may stop temporarily at a place marked as a freight curb loading zone for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers when such stopping does not interfere with any motor vehicle used for the transportation of materials which is waiting to enter or about to enter such zone.
(e) 
The provisions of this section apply on all days and all hours, except that the city manager may cause to be painted on the curb and/or adjacent street surface or erected by sign of any loading zone the words “Loading Zone. Reserved _____ a.m. to _____ p.m.” and insert therein the numbers indicating the hours so reserved, and then such regulations shall apply to such loading zone during such reserved hours only so long as the figures indicating the hours of reservation are legible.
(2004 Code, sec. 12.407)
Whenever any motor vehicle without a driver is found parked or stopped in violation of any of the restrictions imposed by this article or by state law, the officer finding such vehicle shall take its registration number and may take any other information displayed on the vehicle which may identify its user, and shall conspicuously affix to such vehicle a notice in writing, on a form provided by the city secretary, for the driver to answer the charge against him within ten (10) days during the hours and at a place specified in the notice. The officer shall deliver a copy of such notice to the city office. If the driver of a vehicle to which a notice of violation is affixed does not respond to such notice within a period of twenty (20) working days after issuance, a complaint will be filed and a warrant of arrest issued.
(2004 Code, sec. 12.408)
The mayor, as approved by the city council, shall establish a schedule listing penalties for violation of this article. Violations shall be punished by a fine in accordance with the general penalty provision in section 1.01.009 of this code. Persons, upon receipt of a notice of violation, have ten (10) working days in which to respond, either in person at the city hall or by mail to such notice.
(2004 Code, sec. 12.409)
In any prosecution charging a violation of any law or regulation governing the standing or parking of a vehicle, proof that the particular vehicle described in the complaint was parked in violation of any such law or regulation, together with proof that the defendant named in the complaint was, at the time of such parking, the registered owner of such vehicle, shall constitute in evidence a prima facie presumption that the registered owner of such vehicle was the person who parked or placed such vehicle at the point where and for the time during which such violation occurred. This presumption shall apply only when the procedure prescribed in section 12.04.011 has been followed.
(2004 Code, sec. 12.410)
(a) 
Members of the police department are hereby authorized to remove a vehicle from a street or highway to the nearest garage or other place of safety, or to a garage designated or maintained by the police department, or otherwise maintained by the city, under the circumstances hereinafter enumerated.
(1) 
When any vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge, viaduct or causeway, or in any tube or tunnel where such vehicle constitute an obstruction to traffic.
(2) 
When a vehicle upon a street or highway is so disabled as to constitute an obstruction to traffic is and the person in charge of the vehicle is, by reason of physical injury, incapacitated to such an extent as to be unable to provide for its custody or removal.
(3) 
When a vehicle is left unattended upon a street and is so parked illegally as to constitute a definite hazard or obstruction to the normal movement of traffic.
(b) 
Whenever an officer removes a vehicle from a street as authorized in this section and the officer knows or is able to ascertain from the registration records in the vehicle the name and address of the owner thereof, such officer shall immediately give or cause to be given notice in writing to such owner of the fact of such removal and the reasons therefor and of the place to which such vehicle has been removed. In the event any such vehicle is stored in a public garage, a copy of such notice shall be given to the proprietor of such garage.
(c) 
Whenever an officer removes a vehicle from a street under this section and does not know and is not able to ascertain the name of the owner or for any other reason is unable to give the notice to the owner as hereinabove provided, and in the event the vehicle is not returned to the owner within a period of three (3) days, then and in that event the officer shall immediately send or cause to be sent written report of such removal by mail to the state department whose duty it is to register motor vehicles, and shall file a copy of such notice with the proprietor of any public garage in which the vehicle may be stored. Such notice shall include a complete description of the vehicle, the date, time and place from which removed, the reason of such removal and the name of the garage or place where the vehicle is stored.
(d) 
The owner of a vehicle impounded under this section, the garage or place where the vehicle is stored, or his duly authorized agent, shall be entitled to the possession thereof upon payment to the city of the sum of two dollars ($2.00), together with all costs of removal and storage that may have accrued.
(e) 
The remedy and impounding fee and costs provided in this section shall be cumulative of any and all other penalties provided for any violation of this article.
(2004 Code, sec. 12.411)
(a) 
Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this section shall for the purpose hereof have the meanings hereinafter ascribed to them:
Commercial vehicle.
A truck or other vehicle including a truck tractor and trailer combination with a gross weight in excess of six thousand (6,000) pounds per axle, which is self-propelled and designed, maintained and used primarily for the transportation of property.
City street.
Any street or alley within the corporate limits of the city that has been constructed and/or is maintained by the city and which does not have a county, state or federal marker or designation on it.
(b) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to leave any commercial vehicle, as herein defined, parked within the limits of any public street or alley within the city at any time during the hours from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.
(c) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to leave any commercial vehicle, as herein defined, parked within the limits of any public street or alley within the city for a continuous period of time longer than one (1) hour except for immediate loading or unloading or while actually in the process of loading or unloading during the hours from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Under this section any such commercial vehicle as herein defined shall be deemed to be parked when the same is standing without the operator occupying same, without regard to whether the engine is running or the engine is not running.
(d) 
No person in charge of operating said vehicle and no person in whose name said vehicle is registered shall allow or permit such vehicle to be parked in violation of this section. The same is hereby declared to be a nuisance per se and the fact that such vehicle is unattended or unoccupied by said person shall be prima facie evidence that the operator thereof and the owner thereof unlawfully and knowingly so parked such vehicle.
(e) 
Such vehicle illegally parked in violation of this section shall be removed or impounded in the same manner as provided for removal of motor vehicles under section 683.011 et seq. V.T.C.A., Transportation Code.
(f) 
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in accordance with the general penalty provision in section 1.01.009 of this code.
(2004 Code, sec. 12.412)
(a) 
Unimproved alleys.
Parking, standing, or stopping of any vehicle, trailer, or equipment is prohibited at all times in any unimproved alley within the city.
(b) 
Purpose.
Unimproved alleys are reserved for utility access, maintenance, and emergency response and shall remain unobstructed at all times.
(Ordinance 2026-0212-01 adopted 2/12/2026[1])
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Editor's note-This ordinance established a compliance and education period of six months from its effective date. During this period the city shall focus on public notice and voluntary compliance. Full enforcement, including citation and towing, shall commence upon expiration of the compliance period.
(a) 
Improved alleys.
Parking may be permitted in improved alleys only where authorized by city council or the city manager, provided that a minimum clear width of 15' is maintained at all times for emergency and utility access.
(b) 
Prohibited parking.
No person shall park, store, or leave standing any vehicle, trailer, or equipment in an improved alley:
(1) 
In a manner that obstructs utility access or emergency response;
(2) 
For overnight or long-term storage, as defined by subsection (c);
(3) 
If the vehicle is unregistered, inoperable, or abandoned.
(c) 
Long-term storage defined.
For purposes of this section, long-term storage means the placement of a vehicle or trailer in the same location within an alley for a continuous period exceeding seventy-two (72) hours.
(Ordinance 2026-0212-01 adopted 2/12/2026[1])
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Editor's note-This ordinance established a compliance and education period of six months from its effective date. During this period the city shall focus on public notice and voluntary compliance. Full enforcement, including citation and towing, shall commence upon expiration of the compliance period.
The city, through its police department or authorized personnel, may issue citations, order removal, or cause the towing of any vehicle, trailer, or equipment in violation of this article, in accordance with state law.
(Ordinance 2026-0212-01 adopted 2/12/2026[1])
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Editor's note-This ordinance established a compliance and education period of six months from its effective date. During this period the city shall focus on public notice and voluntary compliance. Full enforcement, including citation and towing, shall commence upon expiration of the compliance period.
For purposes of this article:
Alley
means a public right-of-way primarily intended for secondary access, utilities, and service functions.
Improved alley
means an alley that is paved or otherwise improved for vehicular use.
Unimproved alley
means an alley that is unpaved or not constructed for regular vehicular parking or storage.
(Ordinance 2026-0212-01 adopted 2/12/2026)