Parking Rules in Worcester, MA (2026)

Revised Ordinances of the City of Worcester, Ch. 8 § 9C(a)

No person shall allow, permit, or suffer a recreational vehicle, which is a vehicle or piece of equipment intended for recreational use, including but not limited to boats, boat trailers, camping or travel trailers, motor homes, and other mobile vehicular structures designed for recreational use having motor power or mounted onto and drawn by another vehicle, or a commercial vehicle, bus, or tr...

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 90, § 16A – Idling of motor vehicles

No person shall cause, suffer, allow or permit the unnecessary operation of the engine of a motor vehicle while said vehicle is stopped for a foreseeable period of time in excess of five minutes. This section shall not apply to (a) vehicles being serviced, provided that operation of the engine is essential to the proper repair thereof, or (b) vehicles engaged in the delivery or acceptance of go...

Worcester Revised Ordinances of 2008, Chapter 13, § 37(d),(e) - Prohibited Parking

No person shall allow, permit or suffer a vehicle to be parked in any of the places listed herein. Vehicles found in violation of the provisions of this section may be moved by or under the direction of a police official, and the owner of the vehicle so removed or towed away, shall be liable for the cost of such removal and storage charges if any... (d) Upon a roadway where parking is permitted...

Worcester Revised Ordinances of 2008, Chapter 13, § 37A(1) - Parking in Electric Vehicle Spaces Prohibited

When official signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle, other than an electric vehicle, within either on-street or off-street municipal parking facilities specifically designated for the use of electric vehicle charging stations. These designated locations are reserved exclusively for electric vehicles that are actively charging at the station. Pa...

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 90, § 22C – Abandoned motor vehicles

Section 22C. If the superintendent of streets or other officer having charge of the public ways in a city or town reasonably deems that any motor vehicle apparently abandoned by its owner and standing for more than seventy-two hours upon a public or private way therein or on any property therein without the permission of the owner or lessee of said property or if a captain or lieutenant of the ...

Worcester Revised Ordinances of 2008, Chapter 13, § 46 - Commercial Curb Loading Zone

§ 46. Commercial Curb Loading Zone. When official signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall stop, stand or park any commercial vehicle at any curb designated as a commercial loading zone for any purpose or for any length of time other than for the expeditious unloading or delivery or pick up and loading of material not to exceed thirty minutes during the hours when provisions app...

Worcester Revised Ordinances of 2008, Chapter 13, § 40(a)-(c) - Residents Parking Program

(a) No person shall park any vehicle in any area posted "resident parking only" without a properly displayed, valid and current resident parking sticker issued under the provisions of this section. (b) Where official signs are erected giving notice thereof, parking is prohibited or restricted as to time, space and streets in accordance with the schedule of streets designated as schedule XX on f...

Worcester Revised Ordinances of 2008, Chapter 13, § 43(c)(1)-(2) - Winter Parking Ban

(1) Zone A. Between 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. during the period during December, January, February, March and April and whenever snow accumulates to a depth greater than two inches, or when ice or freezing rain require street clearing operations, or until the street has been cleared of snow or ice to within twelve inches of the curb line, or until street treatment operations have been completed. ...