12.10.035 Parking prohibited in specified places.
(1) 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:
(a) Stop, stand, or park a vehicle:
(i) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
(ii) On a sidewalk or street planting strip;
(iii) Within an intersection;
(iv) On a crosswalk;
(v) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic;
(vi) On any railroad tracks; or
(vii) At any place where official signs prohibit stopping.
(b) Stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers:
(i) In front of a public or private driveway or within five feet of the end of the curb radius leading thereto;
(ii) Within fifteen feet of a fire hydrant;
(iii) Within twenty feet of a crosswalk;
(iv) Within thirty feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop sign, yield sign, or traffic control signal located at the side of a roadway;
(v) Within twenty 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 feet of said entrance when properly signposted; or
(vi) At any place where official signs prohibit standing.
(c) Park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading property or passengers:
(i) Within fifty feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing; or
(ii) At any place where official signs prohibit parking.
(2) Parking or standing shall be permitted in the manner provided by law at all other places except as follows:
(a) On any day, except weekends and federal and state legal holidays, it shall be unlawful for the owner or operator of any vehicle to allow such vehicle to remain parked in any one parking space in certain city parking lots as follows:
(i) A period exceeding twelve consecutive hours in the city parking lot located on Spring Street in Lot 1, Block A of Holbrook’s Addition, except as limited in certain parking spaces of said lot as outlined in subsection (2)(a)(ii) of this section.
(ii) A period exceeding two consecutive hours in the fifteen northerly-most parking spaces in the City parking lot located on Spring Street in Lot 1, Block A of Holbrook’s Addition.
(iii) Between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., a period exceeding thirty minutes, except for authorized government vehicles, in the surfaced parking lot south of 325 SE Paradise Street and north of 260 SE Kamiaken Street (current Police Station), excluding that parking which is in the right-of-way of McKenzie Street.
(iv) A period exceeding twelve consecutive hours in the following city parking lots:
1. The parking lot located west of the old post office in Lot 9, Block 10, Original Town of Pullman, except parking pursuant to a permit issued by the city; and
2. The parking lot at the southwest corner of Grand Avenue and Whitman Street; and
3. The parking lot on the north side of South Street just west of the South Fork of the Palouse River.
(3) It shall be unlawful for the owner or operator of any vehicle to allow such vehicle to remain parked between the hours of 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. in the municipally owned parking lots listed in subsection (2) of this section.
(4) Any person who meets the criteria for special parking privileges under RCW 46.19.010 is allowed to park continuously for up to four (4) hours in any area, street or lot which is otherwise restricted as to the length of time parking is permitted, except zones in which parking is limited pursuant to RCW 46.19.050(5). The person must obtain and display a parking placard or special license plate under RCW 46.19.010 and 46.19.030 to be eligible for the privileges under this section.
(a) This section does not apply to those zones or areas in which the stopping, parking, or standing of all vehicles is prohibited or that are reserved for special types of vehicles.
(5) It shall be unlawful for any person to reserve or attempt to reserve any portion of a highway for the purpose of stopping, standing, or parking to the exclusion of any other like person, nor shall any person be granted such right.
(6) Except as otherwise provided in this section, every vehicle stopped or parked upon a two-way roadway shall be so stopped or parked with the right-hand wheels parallel to and within twelve inches of the right-hand curb or as close as practicable to the right edge of the right-hand shoulder.
(7) Every vehicle stopped or parked upon a one-way roadway shall be so stopped or parked parallel to the curb or edge of the roadway, in the direction of authorized traffic movement, with its right-hand wheels within twelve inches of the right-hand curb or as close as practicable to the right edge of the right-hand shoulder, or with its left-hand wheels within twelve inches of the left-hand curb or as close as practicable to the left edge of the left-hand shoulder. (Ord. 22-17 §1, 2022).