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School Drop-Off or Pick-Up

Many parents in Des Plaines drive their children to school in the morning and pick them up after school. Most schools have designated areas for dropping off and picking up students.  These designated areas should be used at all times for the safety of everyone.  NO DOUBLE PARKING!!!  Parents also need to remember it is illegal to stop, stand, or park on the roadway side of another vehicle that has already stopped or parked at the edge or curb of the street.    Please make sure that all laws and signs are obeyed when dropping off and picking up students.

Illinois Vehicle Code (625 ILCS 5/11-1303) (from Ch. 95 ½, par. 11-1303)

Sec. 11‑1303. Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified places.

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:
   1. Stop, stand or park a vehicle:
      1. On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
      2. On a sidewalk;
      3. Within an intersection;
      4. On a crosswalk;
      5. Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within 30 feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless a different length is indicated by signs or markings;
      6. Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
      7. Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel;
      8. On any railroad tracks. A violation of any part of this subparagraph h. shall result in a mandatory fine of $500 or 50 hours of community service.
      9. At any place where official signs prohibit stopping;
      10. On any controlled‑access highway;
      11. In the area between roadways of a divided highway, including crossovers;
      12. In a public parking area if the vehicle does not display a current annual registration sticker or current temporary permit pending registration.
   2. Stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge passengers:
      1. In front of a public or private driveway;
      2. Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;
      3. Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
      4. Within 30 feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop sign, yield sign, or traffic control signal located at the side of a roadway;
      5. Within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station within 75 feet of such entrance (when properly sign‑posted);
      6. At any place where official signs prohibit standing.
   3. Park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading property or passengers:
      1. Within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;
      2. At any place where official signs prohibit parking.
2. No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his control into any such prohibited area or away from a curb such distance as is unlawful.

City Ordinance:  $25.00 Fine

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