San Francisco, CA Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)

The accumulation and storage of abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicles or vehicle parts on private property or on Public Property creates conditions tending to reduce property values, to promote blight and deterioration, to invite plundering, to create fire hazards, to constitute an attractive nuisance creating a hazard to the health and safety of minors, to create harborage for rodents and insects and to be injurious to the health, safety and general welfare. Accordingly, the presence of an abandoned, wrecked, dismantled or inoperative vehicle or vehicle parts, on private property or on Public Property is hereby declared to constitute a public nuisance that may be abated as such in accordance with applicable laws. (Amended by Ord. 287-08, File No. 081340, App. 12/5/2008)