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Municipal ordinance in question is Boulder Municipal Code 5-6-16:
5-6-16. - Staying on Medians Prohibited.
(a) No person shall stand or be upon a median of any street for longer than is reasonably
necessary to cross the street.
(b) For the purposes of this section, median means:
(1) The area of a street, generally in the middle, which separates traffic traveling in
one direction from traffic traveling in another direction, or which, at intersections,
separates traffic turning left from traffic proceeding straight. Such an area is
physically defined by curbing, landscaping, or other physical obstacles to the
area's use by motor vehicles, or by traffic control markings which prohibit use of a
portion of the pavement of a street by motor vehicles other than to drive
generally perpendicularly across the markings, or to wait there awaiting the
opportunity to cross or merge with the opposing lanes of traffic (also known as
painted medians, which are wider than a double yellow line); or
(2) The area of a street at an intersection between the streets and a right turn only
lane, roughly triangular in shape, and separated from the motor vehicular traffic
lanes by curbing, landscaping, or other physical obstacles to the area's use by
motor vehicles (also known as a right turn island).
(c) This section does not apply to medians which are thirty or more feet wide, to the
medians on Mapleton Avenue between Fourth Street and Ninth Street, or to persons
maintaining or working on the median for the government which owns the underlying
right of way or for a public utility.
Ordinance No. 7965 (2014)