Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:3104 Primary Sponsor:Cromer Committee Number:25 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Fire lane, parking in prohibited Residing Body:House Current Committee:Judiciary Date Tabled:19930302 Computer Document Number:DKA/4102AL.93 Introduced Date:19930113 Last History Body:House Last History Date:19930302 Last History Type:Tabled in Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Cromer Type of Legislation:General Bill
Bill Body Date Action Description CMN Leg Involved
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3104 House 19930302 Tabled in Committee 25
3104 House 19930113 Introduced, read first time, 25
referred to Committee
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TO AMEND SECTION 56-5-2530, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO PROHIBITED PARKING IN SPECIFIED PLACES, SO AS TO MAKE IT UNLAWFUL TO PARK A VEHICLE IN A CLEARLY DESIGNATED FIRE LANE OR A PARKING PLACE OR AREA WHICH SERVES AS A FIRE LANE AND IS MARKED CLEARLY "NO PARKING", AND TO PROVIDE EXCEPTIONS.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 56-5-2530 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 56-5-2530. (A) 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:
(1) stop, stand, or park a vehicle:
(a) on the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street.;
(b) on a sidewalk.;
(c) within an intersection.;
(d) on a crosswalk.;
(e) 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.;
(f) alongside or opposite any street excavation, or obstruction when stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic.;
(g) upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel.;
(h) on any railroad tracks.;
(i) on any a controlled-access highway.;
(j) in the area between roadways of a divided highway, including crossovers.;
(k) at any a place where official traffic-control devices prohibit stopping.
(2) stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge passengers:
(a) in front of a public or private driveway.;
(b) within fifteen feet of a fire hydrant.;
(c) within twenty feet of a crosswalk at an intersection.;
(d) 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.;
(e) within twenty feet of the driveway entrance to any a fire station and on the side of a street opposite to any a fire station within seventy-five feet of the entrance when properly signposted.;
(f) at any a place where official traffic-control devices prohibit standing.
(3) Park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading property or passengers:
(a) within fifty feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing.;
(b) at any a place where official traffic-control devices prohibit parking.;
(c) in a clearly designated fire lane or a parking place or area which serves as a fire lane and is marked clearly `NO PARKING', except a vehicle of a volunteer fire department or a county or municipal fire department, a vehicle of a law enforcement agency, or an ambulance or other emergency medical vehicle.
(B) No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his control into any such a prohibited area or away from a curb such a distance as is unlawful.
(C) A person violating the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days for each offense.
The provisions of this section extend to public parking lots within police jurisdiction pursuant to Section 23-1-15."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.