Casa Grande, AZ Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)
Key Facts
- Private property limit
- 5 days for a junk vehicle
- Public street/alley limit
- 72 hours for a disabled vehicle
- Fine range
- $100-$500 individual, $250-$1000 enterprise
- Habitual offender
- 3+ violations in 24 months = misdemeanor
- Enforcement
- City Manager's designee issues civil citations
Summary
In the City of Casa Grande, leaving a junk motor vehicle on private property for more than five days is unlawful under Municipal Code § 8.12.180, unless it sits in an enclosed building, is fully screened by fencing or shrubbery, or belongs to a properly zoned business. A companion rule, § 8.12.190, bars disabled vehicles from streets and alleys for more than seventy-two hours.
8.12.180 Storing, parking or leaving on private property unlawful. ... A. It is unlawful for a person to park, store, leave, or permit the parking, storing or leaving of any junk motor vehicle for a period in excess of five days upon any private property within the City; provided, however, that the provisions of this article shall not apply to any junk motor vehicle in: 1. an enclosed building or an area completely screened from view by fencing, shrubbery, or otherwise; or 2. the premises of a business enterprise which is properly operated in the appropriate business zone pursuant to the zoning laws of the City. ... 8.12.190 Disabled vehicles on public right-of-way unlawful. A. It is unlawful for the owner or any person having control of a motor vehicle which is inoperable or disabled to allow the motor vehicle to remain parked or located upon the paved or unpaved portion of any street or alley within the City for a period of time in excess of seventy-two hours.
Full Breakdown
Casa Grande Municipal Code § 8.12.180 makes it unlawful for a person to park, store or leave a junk motor vehicle on private property within the city for more than five days, with two narrow exceptions: vehicles kept in an enclosed building or completely screened from view by fencing or shrubbery, and vehicles on a properly zoned business enterprise's premises. Section 8.12.190 separately targets inoperable or disabled vehicles left on the paved or unpaved portion of a street or alley for more than seventy-two hours; if the owner cannot be readily located, the city may have the vehicle towed under A.R.S. § 28-4801 et seq.
Both sections sit in Chapter 8.12, the city's nuisance and litter chapter, so enforcement runs through the same civil-citation machinery: the City Manager or a designee may issue a civil citation under § 8.12.260, and under § 8.12.230 each day the violation continues is a separate offense. Instead of citation, the city may pursue abatement under §§ 8.12.290 to 8.12.300, giving the person with an interest in the property written notice and at least thirty days to comply before the city removes the vehicle itself and bills the owner for the cost.
A separate sidewalk-specific rule, § 10.08.240, also lets police remove any vehicle parked on a sidewalk for more than three days, or a disabled vehicle on a street for more than seven days, at the owner's expense.
Violations & Fines
A first civil finding under § 8.12.250 draws a fine of $100 to $500 for an individual or $250 to $1000 for an enterprise, and each day of continuing noncompliance is billed as its own violation under § 8.12.230. A person found responsible for three or more civil violations of Chapter 8.12 within twenty-four months becomes a habitual offender under § 8.12.270, which the City Attorney's Office prosecutes as a class one misdemeanor in Casa Grande City Court.
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