Caddo Parish, LA Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)

Caddo Parish Code of Ordinances § 32-55 makes it unlawful for anyone to store, park, or leave standing a wrecked, damaged, or mechanically inoperative automobile or motor vehicle, or any part of one, or any other junk, for more than 24 hours upon a neutral ground or any part of the right-of-way of a public road. The rule is geographically narrow: it reaches only roads outside any incorporated municipality and within recognized subdivisions of the parish, so it targets the platted residential rights-of-way the parish itself maintains rather than every rural road shoulder.

The section traces back to Code 1976 § 11-49 and was carried forward into the 1985 code at § 15-10 without amendment since, so the 24-hour limit has been the parish's standard for decades. Because § 32-55 itself sets no dollar penalty, enforcement runs through the parish's general penalty provision, § 1-8, which treats an unspecified Code violation as a misdemeanor punishable by up to $500.00 or 30 days in the parish jail, and it separately counts every day the derelict vehicle remains as its own violation.

That daily-violation clause matters here: a vehicle left on the right-of-way for a week is not one offense but potentially seven. Because the ordinance covers 'any part or parts' of a vehicle, it reaches a stripped hull or an accumulation of scrapped vehicle parts left curbside just as much as a whole junked car.