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Amending Chapter 157, Traffic Code - General Parking Restrictions, of the Saint Paul Legislative Code, to comply with state law changes and to update or eliminate outdated language.
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAINT PAUL DOES ORDAIN:
Section 1
Chapter 157 of the Saint Paul Legislative Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 157.01. Stopping, Standing and Parking.
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle on any street or highway so as to interfere with or interrupt the passage of other vehicles unless otherwise provided by State Law.
Sec. 157.01 2. Removal of illegally stopped vehicles.
(a) Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle standing upon a street or highway in violation of any law, such officer is hereby authorized to move such vehicle or require the driver or other person in charge of the vehicle to move the same to a position off the paved or improved or main traveled part of such street or highway.
(b) When any police officer finds a vehicle unattended upon any street or highway or upon any bridge or causeway or in any tunnel where such vehicle constitutes on obstruction to traffic, such officer is hereby authorized to provide for the removal of such vehicle and remove the same to a place of safekeeping established by law.
(Code 1956, § 144.02)
Sec. 157.03. Parking at bus stops.
It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle within an area designated as a bus stop. The bus stop will be eighty (80) feet in length and on the near side of the street intersection except where local conditions make necessary a different location.
(Code 1956, § 144.03)
Sec. 157.02 3 . Stopping or parking prohibited in certain places.
(a) No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or other recognized emergency authority or in obedience to a traffic-control device, in any of the following places:
(1) across any curb, ...
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