ENGROSSED
H. B. 2625
(By Delegates Anderson, Stalnaker, Border,
Warner, Everson, Williams and Clements)
[Introduced January 14, 1998; referred to the
Committee on Roads and Transportation.]
A BILL to amend and reenact section three, article thirteen,
chapter seventeen-c of the code of West Virginia, one
thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to
stopping, standing and parking in specified places.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section three, article thirteen, chapter seventeen-c of
the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one,
as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 13. STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING.
§17C-13-3. Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified
places.
(a) 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 an intersection;
(4) Within fifteen feet of a fire hydrant;
(5) In a properly designated fire lane;
(6) On a crosswalk;
(7) Within twenty feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
(8) Within thirty feet upon the approach to any flashing
beacon, stop sign or traffic-control signal located at the side
of a roadway;
(9) 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 a different length is indicated by signs
or markings;
(10) Within fifty feet of the nearest rail of a railroad
crossing;
(11) 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 the entrance (when
properly signposted);
(12) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or
obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct
traffic;
(13) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at
the edge or curb of a street;
(14) On any bridge or other elevated structure on a highway or within a highway tunnel;
(15) At any place where official signs prohibit stopping;
(16) Within twenty feet of any mail receptacle served
regularly by a carrier using a motor vehicle for daily
deliveries, if the parking interferes with or causes delay in the
carrier's schedule;
(17) On any controlled-access highway;
(18) At any place on any highway where the safety and
convenience of the traveling public is thereby endangered;
(19) In front of a wheelchair accessible ramp or curb cut
which is part of a sidewalk designed for use by the general
public.
(b) No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his or
her control into any prohibited area or away from a curb such
distance as is unlawful.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to prohibit parking in
front of wheelchair ramps on sidewalks for the handicap.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken
from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.
ROADS AND TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
On page three, section three, line thirteen, following the
word "a", by striking out the remainder of subdivision (19) and
inserting in lieu thereof the words ""