A white 'NO PARKING' legend is painted on the pavement along the curb ahead. What does it require of you?
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A.
Park briefly if you leave your hazard lights on.
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B.
Do not park a vehicle in that space. Correct
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C.
Park there outside posted business hours.
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D.
The prohibition applies only during posted rush hours.
The answer is "Do not park a vehicle in that space."
The painted NO PARKING legend means you cannot park a vehicle in that space; treat it the same way you would a posted No Parking sign. The idea that flashing hazard lights buy you a quick stop is borrowed from delivery vans double-parking, and the painted word does not read blinkers.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Park briefly if you leave your hazard lights on.
The painted legend prohibits parking whether your flashers are on or not; hazard lights do not create a legal exception to the marking. Treats blinking hazard lights as permission to override a parking prohibition, a habit picked up from watching delivery drivers double-park.
C. Park there outside posted business hours.
The painted legend prohibits parking in that space; nothing in the marking itself creates an after-hours window. Applies the after-hours exception from commercial loading zones to a pavement marking that carries none.
D. The prohibition applies only during posted rush hours.
The painted legend prohibits parking wherever the marking is in force, not only at peak times. Carries over the time-window logic from peak-hour parking signs to a pavement legend that has none.
This question tests your knowledge of Road Markings on the roads of every US state . Source: Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, marking 3B.20 ("No Parking" Pavement Word Marking)..
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