Provo, UT Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)

080(1) makes it unlawful to park, store, or leave any licensed or unlicensed motor vehicle, or parts of one, in a wrecked, junked, partially dismantled, inoperative, or abandoned condition on private property within Provo for more than 72 hours. The Code defines inoperable broadly: any vehicle not currently licensed and insured to state-minimum levels counts, regardless of whether it actually runs. Two narrow exceptions apply: up to two such vehicles may be stored if kept inside a building or behind an opaque screening fence, and vehicles may sit within a lawfully established junk yard or automobile wrecking yard.

Subsection (2) escalates the rule once a property exceeds two such vehicles: the accumulation itself becomes a declared nuisance detrimental to the health, safety, and welfare of Provo residents, and the property owner, lessee, or possessor must remove the vehicles or take other remedial action the City directs. 060(2)(l) sets the civil-infraction fee schedule for that public-street violation. 080(3) separately bans storing trash, junk, or scrap material in the open, treating an accumulation of more than one such item as an unlawful junk yard unless it's enclosed or properly zoned M2. A related nuisance-storage violation under Subsection (5) is a class B misdemeanor when it creates a health hazard, fire hazard, or rodent harborage.