No parking zones — Oregon Permit Test
No parking zones on the Oregon permit test — 5 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
You cannot stop or park in a traffic lane, within an intersection, on the road side of a parked vehicle, on a sidewalk, crosswalk, bicycle lane or path, on railroad or light rail tracks, on a bridge, overpass or tunnel, or between the separate roads of a divided highway.
Each of these is somewhere a stopped vehicle forces somebody else out of their proper place and into traffic.
On the road side of any parked vehicle (double parking).
You may not park within 10 feet of a fire hydrant, or within 15 feet of the driveway entrance to a fire station on the same side of the street, or within 75 feet on the opposite side.
The distances are what a fire crew needs to reach a hydrant or swing an engine out, measured rather than estimated.
Within 10 feet of a fire hydrant.
You may not park within 20 feet of a marked or unmarked crosswalk at an intersection.
A car parked to the corner hides a pedestrian stepping off it from every driver approaching the crossing.
Within 20 feet of a marked or unmarked crosswalk at an intersection.
You may not park within 50 feet of a traffic signal or sign if your vehicle hides it from view, nor within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad or light rail crossing.
A parked vehicle that hides a stop sign takes the sign away for everybody behind it.
Within 50 feet of a traffic signal or sign if your vehicle hides the signal or sign from view.
The rules about parking and stopping apply whether you are in your vehicle or not, except where your vehicle breaks down and you cannot get it out of the traffic lanes.
Sitting behind the wheel does not make a stopped car legal, which is the belief behind most obstruction outside a school gate.
The rules about parking and stopping apply whether you are in your vehicle or not.
On the test
Which of these is a place Oregon forbids stopping or parking?
On the road side of a parked vehicle. Each of these is somewhere a stopped vehicle forces somebody else out of their proper place and into traffic. 2026-2027 Oregon Driver Manual, p.70: “On the road side of any parked vehicle (double parking).”
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against 2026-2027 Oregon Driver Manual, published by the Oregon Department of Transportation, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-15.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/OR.pdf (2026-2027 Oregon Driver Manual, ODOT form 37, retrieved 2026-09-14)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/OR.pages.txt (pdftotext without -layout over that PDF; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/SOURCES.json (sha256, folio offset 8, nonLawPages, extraction flag and its basis)