{"data":{"id":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-300.440","jurisdiction":"us-mo","citation":"Mo. Rev. Stat. § 300.440","heading":"Stopping, standing or parking prohibited.","body":"1. 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:\n(1) Stop, stand or park a vehicle:\n(a) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;\n(b) On a sidewalk;\n(c) Within an intersection;\n(d) On a crosswalk;\n(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 the (traffic authority) indicates a different length by signs or markings;\n(f) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic;\n(g) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel;\n(h) On any railroad tracks;\n(i) At any place where official signs prohibit stopping.\n(2) Stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers:\n(a) In front of a public or private driveway;\n(b) Within fifteen feet of a fire hydrant;\n(c) Within twenty feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;\n(d) Within thirty feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop sign, or traffic control signal located at the side of a roadway;\n(e) 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);\n(f) At any place where official signs prohibit standing.\n(3) Park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers:\n(a) Within fifty feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;\n(b) At any place where official signs prohibit parking.\n2. No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his control into any such prohibited area or away from a curb such a distance as is unlawful.","path":["Title XIX - MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION","Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance"],"source_url":"https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=300.440","current_through":"2026 legislative session (floor)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T22:23:27Z","sha256":"d50a328380e753ce4c6fb14cb524f1f3758a25963e80eb7f78909871550ba5b5","source_id":"us-mo","stale":false,"prev":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-300.435","next":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-300.445"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}