10 county-level rules, plus city-specific rules for 2 cities in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
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Lehigh County does not zone parking; rules come from your city or borough. In Allentown, dual-wheel motor homes and truck campers may not be parked on residential streets, but a 24-hour loading/unloading permit is available from the Parking Authority.
Allentown Codified Ordinances §615-63
Permits shall be issued by the Allentown Parking Authority to the owners of recreation vehicles or truck campers for a twenty-four-hour permit to unload or load said vehicle with the option of a twenty-four-hour renewal by notifying the Allentown Parking Authority.
Lehigh County has no driveway parking rule. Allentown prohibits parking so as to block entrance to or exit from any garage or driveway at any time, with a narrow exception for wide streets where a car sits mostly off the roadway.
Allentown Codified Ordinances §615-48
No person shall park a vehicle at any time in front of, opposite to, or in such a position as to block entrance to or exit by a vehicle from a garage or driveway.
Lehigh County does not regulate commercial-vehicle parking; cities and boroughs do. Allentown makes it unlawful to park buses, tractor trailers, trailers and oversized vehicles on residential streets outside the I-2 and I-3 industrial districts.
Allentown Codified Ordinances §615-61
It shall be unlawful for any person to park, or allow to remain parked, on any street or parts of streets, the following vehicles: buses, dual-wheel motor homes, oversized vehicle, school buses, tractor trailers, trailers, and truck campers within the districts listed below... except for I-2, Limited Industrial, and I-3, General Industrial Districts.
Lehigh County sets no street-parking rules; each municipality does. Allentown runs a Residential Permit Parking program under Chapter 615, letting permit-holding residents park on designated blocks without time limits while limiting non-permit vehicles.
Allentown Codified Ordinances §615-84
The Parking Authority is hereby authorized to designate, subject to the approval by City Council, as herein provided, certain streets and other public areas within the City of Allentown as permit parking areas in which resident vehicles displaying valid parking permits may stand or be parked without limitation by parking time restrictions established by this article.
Lehigh County has no overnight-parking rule; municipalities set them. Allentown prohibits storing any vehicle on a street, defining “stored” as parking in one place continuously for over 72 hours (§615-52).
Allentown Codified Ordinances §615-52
No vehicle shall be stored upon any street. As used herein, “stored” shall mean the parking of a vehicle in one place upon any street continuously for over 72 hours.
Lehigh County sets no EV-charging parking rule, and Allentown has no dedicated ordinance reserving public spaces for charging. EV charging stations are governed by the statewide Uniform Construction Code and municipal zoning, not the county.
Allentown bans abandoning a vehicle on public or private property; one left illegally on a highway over 48 hours is deemed abandoned (§615-103). Pennsylvania's Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S. §102, sets the same 48-hour standard statewide.
Allentown Codified Ordinances §615-103
No person shall abandon a vehicle within the City on either public or private property. For purposes of this article, an abandoned vehicle shall be: ... The vehicle has remained illegally on a highway or other public property for a period of more than 48 hours.
Lehigh County does not regulate curb markings. Curb paint and no-parking markings are official traffic-control devices installed by your municipality; residents may not paint curbs to reserve spaces, and unofficial markings have no legal effect.
Lehigh County has no loading-zone rule; municipalities set them. Allentown limits vehicles in a marked loading zone to 20 minutes of loading activity, and to five minutes in a five-minute zone (§615-56).
Allentown Codified Ordinances §615-56
No person shall allow a vehicle to be parked, stopped, standing or drifted to conceal an officer's chalk mark without loading activity for more than 20 minutes in a marked loading zone or more than five minutes in a five-minute zone.
Lehigh County does not regulate this. Allentown defines an “oversized vehicle” as one with a Class 5 license or above, or a gross vehicle weight over 11,000 pounds, and bans parking such vehicles on residential streets (§§615-60, 615-61).
Allentown Codified Ordinances §615-60
OVERSIZED VEHICLE — A motor vehicle that has a Class 5 license or above, or any equivalent license or above, or with a gross vehicle weight of over 11,000 pounds.
2 cities in Lehigh County have their own parking rules rules. Each link goes to that city's dedicated page with code citations.
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