Section 66-7-351 - Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified places. - New Mexico Statutes

66-7-351. 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)     on a crosswalk;   

(6)     within twenty feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;   

(7)     within thirty 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 end [ends] of a safety zone, unless the traffic authority indicates a different length by signs or markings;   

(9)     within fifty feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;   

(10)     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;   

(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 tunnel; or   

(14)     at any place where official signs prohibit stopping.   

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