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Idaho Code § 49-659

Stopping, standing or parking outside business or residential districts

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case State v. Phillip James Morgan (2013)

Most recently applied in State v. Phillip James Morgan (January 2013)

I.C., § 49-691, as added by 1977, ch. 152, § 3, p. 337; am. and redesig. 1988, ch. 265, § 182, p. 549.

(1) Outside a business or residential district no person shall stop, park or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the roadway when it is practicable to stop, park or so leave the vehicle off the roadway, but in every event in an unobstructed width of the highway opposite a standing vehicle shall be left for the free passage of other vehicles and a clear view of the stopped vehicle shall be available from a distance of two hundred (200) feet in each direction upon the highway.

(2) This section and sections 49-660 and 49-661, Idaho Code, shall not apply to the driver of any vehicle which is disabled in such a manner and to an extent that it is impossible to avoid stopping and temporarily leaving the vehicle in that position.

Current official text: Idaho Statutes (Idaho Legislature). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Idaho statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.