Okla. Stat. tit. 47 § 11-1003

Current through Laws 2024, c. 453.

Section 11-1003 - Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified places

A. Except as otherwise provided in subsection B of this section, 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;

2. In front of a public or private driveway;

3. Within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant, or if in an area serviced by a volunteer fire department, within thirty (30) feet of a fire hydrant if the governing body of the area so adopts by ordinance;

4. Within an intersection;

5. On a crosswalk;

6. Within twenty (20) feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;

7. Within thirty (30) feet upon the approach to any flashing beacon, stop sign or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway;

8. 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 authority having jurisdiction indicates a different length by signs or marking;

9. Within fifty (50) feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;

10. 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);

11. Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;

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

13. Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway underpass;

14. At any place where official signs prohibit stopping.

B. No person engaging in the collection and disposal of solid waste or recycling material or both as a business, pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Solid Waste Management Act, 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;

2. Within an intersection;

3. Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;

4. Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway underpass; or

5. At any place where official signs prohibit stopping.

C. No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under the control of the person into any prohibited area or away from a curb such distance as is unlawful.

Okla. Stat. tit. 47, § 11-1003

Added by Laws 1961, HB 556, p. 388, § 11-1003, emerg. eff. 9/1/1961; Amended by Laws 1995, HB 1398, c. 58, § 3, emerg. eff. 7/1/1995; Amended by Laws 2011 , SB 417, c. 152, § 1, eff. 11/1/2011.