Madison County, AL Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)

02(a), enacted by Act 92-502 in 1992 and amended by Act 93-709 in 1993, makes it unlawful and a public nuisance for any person to park, leave, or store more than one motor vehicle that is not currently and validly registered and tagged under state law, on any place or premises in public view within the unincorporated territory of Madison County. The threshold is deliberately set at more than one such vehicle, meaning a single unregistered car sitting in a driveway does not trigger the statute, but a second one does.

Subsection (b) exempts a licensed business from subsection (a) if storing the vehicle is reasonably necessary to running that business, directly or indirectly, which covers operations like tow lots, repair shops and dealerships handling inventory or customer vehicles as part of their trade. 04, the same enforcement mechanism used for the county's junk and junkyard nuisance provisions: the Madison County Commission brings a civil action in the Circuit Court of Madison County to abate or enjoin the nuisance, and the court can order the violator to pay the full cost of abatement along with the county's attorney's fees, court costs and other litigation expenses.

Because the statute is triggered by visibility, a vehicle stored out of public view, inside a closed garage or behind a solid fence, for example, falls outside its reach even if unregistered.