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Road Rules 2014
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#### 168 No parking signs
168 No parking signs
> > (1) The driver of a vehicle must not stop on a length of road or in an area to which a *no parking sign* applies, unless the driver—
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> > > (a) is dropping off, or picking up, passengers or goods, and
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> > > (b) does not leave the vehicle unattended, and
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> > > (c) completes the dropping off, or picking up, of the passengers or goods, and drives on, as soon as possible and, in any case, within the required time after stopping.
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> > Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
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> > (2) For this rule, a driver leaves a vehicle unattended if the driver leaves the vehicle so the driver is over 3 metres from the closest point of the vehicle.
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> > (3) In this rule—
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> > required time means—
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> > > (a) if information on or with the sign indicates a time—the indicated time, or
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> > > (b) if there is no indicated time—2 minutes, or
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> > > (c) if there is no indicated time, or the indicated time is less than 5 minutes, and rule 206 applies to the driver—5 minutes.
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> > Note 1.
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> > With is defined in the Dictionary.
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> > Note 2.
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> > Rule 206 applies to a driver if the driver’s vehicle displays a current parking permit for people with disabilities and the driver complies with the conditions of use of the permit—see rule 206(1).
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> | No parking signs |
> | No parking sign(for a length of road) | No parking sign(for an area) |
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> Note 1 for diagrams.
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> There is another permitted version of the *no parking sign*—see the diagram in Schedule 3.
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> Note 2 for diagrams.
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> A *no parking sign* may have an arrow pointing in a different direction and anything on the sign may be differently arranged—see rule 316(4).