Colorado § 42-4-1202 - Parking or abandonment of vehicles.
Full text of Colorado Colorado Revised Statutes § 42-4-1202 — Parking or abandonment of vehicles., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 42-4-1202. Parking or abandonment of vehicles.
(1) No person shall stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle, either attended or unattended, outside of a business or a residential district, upon the paved or improved and main-traveled part of the highway. Nothing contained in this section shall apply to the driver of any vehicle which is disabled while on the paved or improved and main-traveled portion of a highway in such manner and to such extent that it is impossible to avoid stopping and temporarily leaving such disabled vehicle in such position, subject, when applicable, to the emergency lighting requirements set forth in section 42-4-230.
(2) Any person who violates any provision of this section commits a class B traffic infraction.
Source: L. 94: Entire title amended with relocations, p. 2369, § 1, effective January 1, 1995.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 42-4-1102 as it existed prior to 1994, and the former § 42-4-1202 was relocated to § 42-4-1301.
Cross references: For transfer and purge of titles of abandoned vehicles, see § 42-4-1810; for criminal penalty for abandonment of a motor vehicle, see § 18-4-512.
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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