(1) 
The provisions of this chapter prohibiting the stopping, standing or parking of a vehicle shall apply at all times or at those times herein specified, except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direction of a police officer or official traffic-control device.
(2) 
The provisions of this chapter imposing a time limit on standing or parking shall not relieve any person from the duty to observe other and more restrictive provisions hereof or of law prohibiting or limiting the standing or parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified times.
(Prior code § 16-131; Code 1959 § 11.72)
The traffic authority may appropriately sign or mark any place within the city where in the opinion of the traffic authority any of the provisions of this chapter apply, and when so signed or marked, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle, or any portion thereof, in any of the places or locations so signed or marked, contrary to the directions, language or indications of such signs or markings at such place or location.
(Prior code § 16-132; Code 1959 § 11.73)
(1) 
The traffic authority may appropriately sign or mark the following places and when so signed or marked, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle, or any portion thereof, in any of these places:
(a) 
At any place so signed or marked between a safety zone and the nearest curb and any place within 20 feet of a point on the curb immediately opposite the midblock end of the safety zone.
(b) 
At any place so signed or marked within 30 feet of an intersection, except that a bus may stop at a designated bus stop.
(c) 
At any place so signed or marked adjacent to, in front of or opposite any fire station, police station, theater, school ground, public assembly hall, bus or passenger station or other gathering place.
(d) 
At any place so signed or marked within the city where in the judgment of the traffic authority the parking or standing of any vehicle or any portion thereof would interfere with or endanger person, property or traffic, or would adversely affect or endanger the public peace, health or safety, or in any manner constitute a menace or hazard to pedestrians or other traffic at, in or about the location where such signs or markings are so placed.
(e) 
Within 25 feet of the approach to the nearest line of a crosswalk.
(2) 
Whenever the traffic authority shall determine that the orderly, efficient conduct of the city's business shall require that parking or standing of vehicles on city property be prohibited, limited or restricted, the traffic authority shall have the power and authority to order signs to be erected or posted indicating that the parking of vehicles is thus prohibited, limited or restricted.
(3) 
When signs authorized by the provisions of this section are in place, giving notice thereof, no person shall park or stand any vehicle contrary to the directions or provisions of such signs.
(Prior code § 16-133; Code 1959 § 11.74)
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 traffic and with the right-hand wheels of the vehicle within 18 inches of the curb line or edge of the roadway except as follows:
(1) 
Upon those streets which have been marked or signed by the traffic authority for angle parking, upon which streets vehicles shall be parked headed to the curb at the angle and within the lines indicated by such marks or signs with the right front wheel of the vehicle within 18 inches of the curb line or edge of the roadway.
(2) 
Upon those streets where parking on the left side of the roadway otherwise is specifically provided by ordinance or resolution.
(Prior code § 16-134; Code 1959 § 11.75)
The traffic authority is hereby authorized to determine those streets upon which angle parking shall be permitted, other than state highways where such parking is prohibited by the State Vehicle Code, and shall indicate all such places by placing white lines upon the surface of the roadway indicating the angle at which parking is permitted.
(Prior code § 16-135; Code 1959 § 11.76)
It shall be unlawful for any person within the city to park, stand or leave standing at any time any vehicle in such manner that any part of such vehicle is vertically over any line painted or placed by the traffic authority on the surface of any street or roadway for the purpose of indicating angle or parallel parking of vehicles.
(Prior code § 16-136; Code 1959 § 11.77)
No person shall park any commercial vehicle more than five hours in any residential district except:
(1) 
While loading or unloading property and time in addition to such five-hour period is necessary to complete such work; or
(2) 
When such vehicle is parked in connection with, and in aid of, the performance of a service to or on a property in the block in which such vehicle is parked, and time in addition to such five-hour period is reasonably necessary to complete such service.
(Prior code § 16-139; Code 1959 § 11.80)
The traffic authority is authorized, subject to the provisions and limitations of this title, to place, and when required herein shall place, the curb markings to indicate parking or standing regulations, and the curb markings shall have the meanings as provided and set forth in the State Vehicle Code and as follows:
(1) 
Red indicates no stopping, standing or parking, whether the vehicle is attended or unattended; except that a bus may stop in a red zone marked or signposted as a bus loading zone.
(2) 
White shall mean no stopping, standing or parking for any purpose other than the loading or unloading of passengers or for the purpose of depositing mail in an adjacent mailbox, which shall not exceed three minutes, and such restrictions shall apply between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day, except Sundays and except as follows:
(a) 
When such zone is in front of a hotel the restriction shall apply at all times.
(b) 
When such zone is in front of a theater the restriction shall apply at all times except when such theater is closed.
(3) 
White, with the words "Taxi Stand" stenciled thereon in black letters at least three inches in height, shall mean that no vehicle shall stop, stand or park in the zone so marked except a taxicab, and then only a taxicab operated by the person duly licensed by the city to operate taxicabs in the city and to whom such taxicab stand has by the traffic authority or the city council been particularly assigned.
(4) 
Green shall mean no standing or parking of any vehicle for a longer period of time than five, 10, 15 or 20 minutes, as may be indicated in white, conspicuously stenciled, clearly legible letters or figures by the traffic authority at the particular location, at any time between 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. of any day, except Sunday.
When the traffic authority, as authorized under this title, has caused curb markings to be placed, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle adjacent to any such legible curb marking in violation of any of the provisions of this section.
(5) 
Yellow shall mean stopping only for the purpose of loading or unloading passengers or freight, providing the loading or unloading of passengers shall not consume more than three minutes and the loading or unloading of freight shall not exceed 20 minutes and such restrictions shall apply between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day excepting Sundays and holidays.
(Prior code § 16-140; Code 1959 § 11.81; Ord. 383 § 1, 11-21-1960)
Except as otherwise provided in this title, it is unlawful for any person to park or stand any trailer, camp car or any other similar type of equipment owned, operated or controlled by such person, in or upon any public street, court, drive, alley or other public place in the city for more than 48 consecutive hours within any period of seven days.
(Prior code § 16-141; Code 1959 § 11.82)
No person shall repair, dust, wipe, wash or otherwise clean, use or employ any method of dusting, repairing, wiping, washing, or otherwise cleaning any vehicle or portion thereof, while in or upon any street, when any charge or gratuity is directly or indirectly made or received therefor, except in case of actual emergency and then only at the place where such emergency occurred.
(Prior code § 16-144; Code 1959 § 11.85)
Whenever the traffic authority shall determine that an emergency traffic congestion is likely to result from the holding of public or private assemblages, gatherings or functions, or for other reasons, the traffic authority shall have the power and authority to order temporary signs to be erected or posted indicating that the operation, parking or standing of vehicles is prohibited on such streets and alleys as the traffic authority shall direct, during the time such temporary signs are in place. Such signs shall remain in place only during the existence of such emergency and the traffic authority shall cause such signs to be removed promptly thereafter.
When signs authorized by the provisions of this section are in place giving notice thereof, no person shall operate, park or stand any vehicle contrary to the directions and provisions of such signs.
(Prior code § 16-145; Code 1959 § 11.86)
Except as otherwise provided in WMC § 10.50.180, no person shall stand or park any vehicle, wagon or pushcart from which goods, wares, merchandise, fruits, vegetables, or foodstuffs are sold, displayed, solicited or offered for sale or bartered or exchanged or any lunch wagon or eating cart or vehicle on any portion of any street within the city, except that such vehicles, wagons or pushcarts may stand or park only at the request of a bona fide purchaser for a period of time not to exceed 10 minutes at any one place. The provisions of this section shall not apply to persons delivering such articles upon order of, or by agreement with, a customer from a store or other fixed place of business for distribution.
(Prior code § 16-147; Code 1959 § 11.88)
No person shall park or stand on any street any lunch wagon, eating cart or vehicle, or pushcart from which tamales, peanuts, popcorn, candy or other articles of food or refreshment are sold or offered for sale, without first obtaining a written permit to do so from the city council which shall designate the specific section in which such cart shall stand.
(Prior code § 16-148; Code 1959 § 11.89)
No person shall park or stand any vehicle or wagon used or intended to be used in the transportation of property for hire on any street while awaiting patronage for such vehicle or wagon, without first obtaining a written permit to do so from the city council which shall designate the specific location where such vehicle may stand.
(Prior code § 16-149; Code 1959 § 11.90)
Whenever any permit is granted under the provisions of WMC § 10.50.180 or § 10.50.190 and a particular location to park or stand is specified therein, no person shall park or stand any vehicle, wagon, pushcart, object or thing on any location other than as designated in such permit. In the event that the holder of any such permit is convicted in any court of competent jurisdiction for violating any of the provisions of said sections, such permit shall forthwith be revoked by the city council upon the filing of the record of such conviction with the city council, and no permit shall thereafter be issued to such persons until six months have elapsed from the date of such revocation.
(Prior code § 16-150; Code 1959 § 11.91)
No person shall deposit, leave, place or park in any street any cement or concrete mixer, wheelbarrow, pushcart, hand-drawn or hand-propelled vehicle or other object, thing or property including tractors, hand trucks and implements of husbandry as defined by the State Vehicle Code, except as otherwise provided by this title, in such a manner or for such a time as to interfere with traffic, either vehicular or pedestrian, in or upon any street or in such manner as to constitute a hazard to the safety of traffic or of any person or property in and upon any street, or fail to immediately remove the same upon order of any police or traffic officer of the city; provided, however, the traffic authority shall have the right and power to authorize, in writing, for limited periods of time, the placing or parking of any such vehicle, object or thing on any street in such a manner as will not constitute the same a nuisance or a hazard to life or property or unreasonably interfere with traffic in or upon such street.
(Prior code § 16-151; Code 1959 § 11.92)