Florissant, MO Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)

Chapter 395, Abandoned Property, opens its enforcement provisions at Section 395.020. Subsection A is a flat abandonment ban: no person shall abandon any motor vehicle on the right-of-way of any public road or State highway or on any private real property owned by another without his/her consent. Subsection B goes further and reaches vehicles an owner never intended to abandon, barring any owner, occupant or person occupying property in the City from allowing an unregistered vehicle, one lacking properly displayed State license plates, to sit on public or private property, including a public or private street, unless the same be stored in a closed garage which shall consist of four sides, a roof and a door. The Section carves out two exceptions: State-licensed new and used car or trailer sales lots, and a vehicle at an automotive repair garage or filling station for active repair, capped at thirty days per repair.

Section 395.030 backs this up by declaring that open storage of abandoned property constitutes a public safety hazard and is prohibited, though it exempts property fully enclosed in a building or a locked fence and not visible from adjacent property, a vehicle on a licensed salvage, swap, junk, towing or storage business's lot operating within its zoning, and an antique vehicle until ninety days after the owner is notified to finish licensing it. Enforcement runs through the towing machinery in Sections 395.040 and 395.050: police or a property owner can have a qualifying vehicle towed once it meets the abandoned-property triggers, and Chapter 395 sets no stand-alone fine for Section 395.020 itself, so a citation falls back to the Code's general penalty at Section 100.080.