Parking Rules in Fort Wayne, IN (2026)

Fort Wayne Code of Ordinances § 72.23(A)(2)

(A) The only vehicles permitted to be parked in residential districts in the city shall be: ... (2) Operable recreational vehicles, campers and boats, which shall only be parked on an approved parking surface directly connected to the driveway, street or alley of said residential district but not in the street.

Fort Wayne Code of Ordinances § 72.23(A)(1)

The parking, storage or display of motor vehicles on grass or other similar areas that do not have an approved parking surface shall not be permitted on any property.       (2)   Operable recreational vehicles, campers and boats, which shall only be parked on an approved parking surface directly connected to the driveway, street or alley of said residential district but not in the street.    (B...

Fort Wayne Code of Ordinances § 72.23(B)

The following vehicles that are not permitted to be parked in said residential districts include but may not be limited to: construction equipment, large pick-up or panel trucks over one ton, other large commercial vehicles, semi-trucks, truck-tractors, farm tractors, road tractors, semitrailers, and buses; or inoperable automobiles, vans, panel and pick-up trucks (up to one ton), pull-trailers...

Fort Wayne Code of Ordinances §§ 72.01, 72.22(B)

§ 72.01: No vehicle shall be stopped, standing or parked except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic... in any of the following places: (A) In a roadway other than parallel with the edge of the roadway headed in the direction of a lawful traffic movement... § 72.22(B): Within five feet of a public or private driveway and/or alley.

Fort Wayne Code of Ordinances § 72.06

No vehicle, except those owned or operated by physicians on emergency calls, shall be parked between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. on the days and streets or sides of streets described in Schedule 6 maintained on file in the office of the City Traffic Engineer.

Fort Wayne Code of Ordinances § 72.30

(A) The only vehicles permitted to be parked in designated electric vehicle parking spaces shall be electric vehicles which are connected to a power source using electric vehicle charging station and actively charging. (B) The following vehicles are not permitted to be parked in electric vehicle parking spaces: (1) Vehicles which are not equipped with plug-in capability for electric vehicle cha...

Fort Wayne Code of Ordinances § 90.02

It shall be unlawful for any person to keep, permit or maintain any vehicle which may be one of the following: partially dismantled; non-operating; wrecked or junked; without a license plate or an invalid plate; or on any public or private premises within the City for such time and under circumstance which would reasonably make such vehicle appear to have been abandoned.    (B)   The license pl...

Fort Wayne Code of Ordinances §§ 72.57, 72.58

No vehicle shall be stopped, standing or parked for any purpose or period of time other than for the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers in any place marked as a passenger curb loading zone ... and then only for a period not to exceed three minutes. ... No vehicle shall be stopped, standing or parked for any purpose or length of time other than for the expeditious unloading and deliv...

Fort Wayne Code of Ordinances § 72.79

It shall be unlawful for any vehicle to be stopped, standing or parked at any time during the period of any snow emergency on any of the routes or streets listed in Schedule 18, maintained on file in the office of the Traffic Engineer.