Muncie, IN Curfew Laws: Park Curfew (2026)

Section 95.01 sits at the head of Chapter 95, Parks and Recreation, and traces back to the 1968 Code. It fixes a single citywide operating window for every city park: 5:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., seven days a week, with no seasonal variation written into the text. The section does two things beyond setting the hours. First, it bars anyone other than park employees from remaining in a park once it has closed for the night, which functions as a de facto park curfew enforceable against any member of the public still present after 11:00 p.m.

Second, it requires that vehicles enter or exit a park only through the park's established entrances or drives, at any time, which prevents cutting through fences or off-road areas even during open hours. The Muncie Police Department and Parks Department share enforcement, since the parks are patrolled municipal property, and the chapter cross-references the general penalty for violations rather than setting its own fine. Related sections in the same chapter reinforce the after-hours restriction: § 95.08 separately bars sleeping, camping, or overnight stays in parks regardless of hours unless the parks board specially permits it, and § 95.14 bars any intoxicated person from being in a park at all. Read together, Chapter 95 treats a city park as closed space overnight, not merely a lightly monitored public area.