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SECTION 1201
Stopping, standing, or parking outside of business or residence districts
Vehicle & Traffic (VAT) CHAPTER 71, TITLE 7, ARTICLE 32
§ 1201. Stopping, standing, or parking outside of business or
residence districts. (a) Upon any highway outside of a business or
residence district no person shall stop, park, or leave standing any
vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the paved or main-traveled
part of the highway when it is practicable to stop, park, or so leave
such vehicle off such part of said highway, but in every event 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 such
stopped vehicles shall be available from a distance of two hundred feet
in each direction upon such highway.

(b) This section shall not apply to the driver of any vehicle which is
disabled while on the paved or 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.