Bill Text: MI HB5650 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Traffic control; traffic regulation; vehicles in motorcycle processions; exempt from certain parking violations. Amends sec. 674 of 1949 PA 300 (MCL 257.674). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4919'17

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-28 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 02/27/2018 [HB5650 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-HB5650-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5650

 

 

February 27, 2018, Introduced by Reps. Chirkun, Lucido, Green, Dianda, Lasinski, Yanez and Jones 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) 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.

 

     (w) In Except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, in

 

violation of an official sign restricting the period of time for or

 

manner of parking. A motorcycle that is part of a motorcycle

 

procession and that is parked in violation of an official sign

 

restricting the period of time for parking is exempt from this

 

subdivision.

 

     (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).

 

     (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.Postal Service.

 

     (z) In a place or in a manner that blocks the use of an alley.

 

     (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.

 

     Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless House Bill No. 4919 of the 99th Legislature is enacted into

 

law.