April 20, 2016, Introduced by Rep. Kosowski and referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled
"Michigan vehicle code,"
by amending section 674 (MCL 257.674), as amended by 2000 PA 268.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 674. (1) A vehicle shall not be parked, except if
necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance
with the law or the directions of a police officer or traffic-
control device, in any of the following places:
(a) On a sidewalk.
(b) In front of a public or private driveway.
(c) Within an intersection.
(d) Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant.
(e) On a crosswalk.
(f) Within 20 feet of a crosswalk, or if there is not a
crosswalk, then within 15 feet of the intersection of property
lines at an intersection of highways.
(g) Within 30 feet of the approach to a flashing beacon, stop
sign, or traffic-control signal located at the side of a highway.
(h) Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within 30
feet of a point on the curb immediately opposite the end of a
safety zone, unless a different length is indicated by an official
sign or marking.
(i) Within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing.
(j) Within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to a fire station
and on the side of a street opposite the entrance to a fire station
within 75 feet of the entrance if properly marked by an official
sign.
(k) Alongside or opposite a street excavation or obstruction,
if the stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic.
(l) On the roadway side of a vehicle stopped or parked at the
edge or curb of a street.
(m) Upon a bridge or other elevated highway structure or
within a highway tunnel.
(n) At a place where an official sign prohibits stopping or
parking.
(o) Within 500 feet of an accident at which a police officer
is in attendance, if the scene of the accident is outside of a city
or village.
(p) In front of a theater.
(q) In a place or in a manner that blocks immediate egress
from an emergency exit conspicuously marked as an emergency exit of
a building.
(r) In a place or in a manner that blocks or hampers the
immediate use of an immediate egress from a fire escape
conspicuously marked as a fire escape providing an emergency means
of egress from a building.
(s) In a parking space clearly identified by an official sign
as being reserved for use by disabled persons that is on public
property or private property available for public use, unless the
individual is a disabled person as described in section 19a or
unless the individual is parking the vehicle for the benefit of a
disabled person. In order for the vehicle to be parked in the
parking space the vehicle shall display 1 of the following:
(i) A certificate of identification or windshield placard
issued under section 675 to a disabled person.
(ii) A special registration plate issued under section 803d to
a disabled person.
(iii) A similar certificate of identification or windshield
placard issued by another state to a disabled person.
(iv) A similar special registration plate issued by another
state to a disabled person.
(v) A special registration plate to which a tab for persons
with disabilities is attached issued under this act.
(t) In a clearly identified access aisle or access lane
immediately adjacent to a space designated for parking by persons
with disabilities.
(u) On a street or other area open to the parking of vehicles
that results in the vehicle interfering with the use of a curb-cut
or ramp by persons with disabilities.
(v) In a parking space clearly identified by an official sign
as a charging station for electric vehicles, unless all of the
following are satisfied:
(i) The vehicle is an electric vehicle.
(ii) The vehicle is connected to the charging station while
parked in the parking space.
(w) (v)
Within 500 feet of a fire at which
fire apparatus is
in attendance, if the scene of the fire is outside a city or
village. However, volunteer fire fighters responding to the fire
may park within 500 feet of the fire in a manner not to interfere
with fire apparatus at the scene. A vehicle parked legally previous
to the fire is exempt from this subdivision.
(x) (w)
In violation of an official sign
restricting the
period of time for or manner of parking.
(y) (x)
In a space controlled or regulated
by a meter on a
public highway or in a publicly owned parking area or structure, if
the allowable time for parking indicated on the meter has expired,
unless the vehicle properly displays 1 or more of the items listed
in section 675(8).
(z) (y)
On a street or highway in such a
way as to obstruct
the delivery of mail to a rural mailbox by a carrier of the United
States postal service.
(aa) (z)
In a place or in a manner that
blocks the use of an
alley.
(bb) (aa)
In a place or in a manner that
blocks access to a
space clearly designated as a fire lane.
(2) A person shall not move a vehicle not owned by the person
into a prohibited area or away from a curb a distance that makes
the parking unlawful.
(3) A bus, for the purpose of taking on or discharging
passengers, may be stopped at a place described in subsection
(1)(b), (d), or (f) or on the roadway side of a vehicle illegally
parked in a legally designated bus loading zone. A bus, for the
purpose of taking on or discharging a passenger, may be stopped at
a place described in subsection (1)(n) if the place is posted by an
appropriate bus stop sign, except that a bus shall not stop at such
a place if the stopping is specifically prohibited by the
responsible local authority, the state transportation department,
or the director of the department of state police.
(4) A person who violates this section is responsible for a
civil infraction.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.