Bucks County, PA Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)

Section 6(F) sets a firm 48-hour clock: once a Park Police officer or other Park employee discovers a vehicle sitting in the Park System, the owner has forty-eight hours to remove it. Anything still there after that window is considered abandoned and becomes subject to towing, with one exception: the Director or their designee can grant written permission for an extended stay, which stops the clock. The rule works together with § 6(A)(1)'s overnight parking ban, since a car left past sunset without a permit is already in violation before the 48-hour abandonment clock even starts running, and with § 6(E), which makes the person in whose name the vehicle is registered responsible for any parking violation when no driver is present, regardless of who actually left the car there.

§§ 6102(b) and 6109, Park Police can act on an abandoned vehicle without waiting on a municipal police department, and the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code applies to Park System roadways alongside these county-specific rules under § 6(B). An owner who wants to avoid towing during a legitimate overnight stay, such as camping, an early tournament, or an approved special event, needs to secure that written extended-stay permission from the Director in advance rather than relying on the 48-hour window as a grace period.