(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, every vehicle stopped or parked upon a roadway where there are adjacent curbs shall be so stopped or parked with the right-hand wheels of the vehicle parallel to and within eighteen inches (18″) of the right-hand curb.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 55-8-161

  • Department: means the department of safety. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Highway: means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way when any part thereto is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Local authorities: means every county, municipal and other local board or body having authority to enact ordinances or make regulations relating to traffic under the constitution and laws of this state. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Person: means a natural person, firm, copartnership, association, corporation, or an engaged ADS. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Roadway: means that portion of a highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Traffic: means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars and other conveyances either singly or together while using any highway for purposes of travel. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Vehicle: means every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, excepting devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
(b)

(1) Local authorities may by ordinance permit parking of vehicles with the left-hand wheels adjacent to and within eighteen inches (18″) of the left-hand curb of a one-way roadway.
(2) Local authorities in any county having a metropolitan form of government with a population of more than five hundred thousand (500,000), according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census, upon determining that such parking would not interfere with the free movement of traffic nor cause an undue safety hazard, may by ordinance permit parking of vehicles with the left-hand wheels adjacent to and within eighteen inches (18″) of the left-hand curb of a roadway.
(c) Local authorities may by ordinance permit angle parking on any roadway, except that angle parking shall not be permitted on any federal aid or state highway, unless the department of transportation has determined that the roadway is of sufficient width to permit angle parking without interfering with the free movement of traffic.
(d) A county may, by resolution of the county legislative body, prohibit parking on any roadway under its jurisdiction other than a federal aid or state highway when such parking is dangerous to those using the highway or interferes with the free movement of traffic. The county, with respect to highways under its jurisdiction, shall place signs prohibiting or restricting the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles on any highway where, as designated by the county, stopping, standing or parking is dangerous to those using the highway or where the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles would unduly interfere with the free movement of traffic on those highways. Such signs shall be official signs and no person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle in violation of the restrictions stated on such signs. The primary responsibility for enforcing this subsection (d) shall be on the county prohibiting parking on any roadway under its jurisdiction. A violation of this section shall be punishable as provided by § 55-8-103. Each day a motor vehicle is in violation of this subsection (d) shall be a separate event. In the interest of public safety a county may remove a motor vehicle that is abandoned or disabled.
(e) Except as provided in subsection (d), the department, with respect to highways under its jurisdiction outside of the limits of municipalities, shall place signs prohibiting or restricting the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles on any highway where, as designated by the department, stopping, standing or parking is dangerous to those using the highway or where the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles would unduly interfere with the free movement of traffic on those highways. Such signs shall be official signs and no person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle in violation of the restrictions stated on such signs.
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