Wyoming, MI Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)
Key Facts
- Unregistered-vehicle limit
- 7 days outdoors before violation
- Inoperable-vehicle rule
- Enclosed building required after 7 days
- Governing section
- Zoning Ordinance § 90-314(4)
- Default fine
- $75/$500/$2,500, Sec. 1-27(e)
- Vacant-land responsibility
- Falls on the property owner
Summary
Wyoming, Michigan bars keeping an unregistered vehicle outdoors for more than seven days and bans outdoor storage of any vehicle or major vehicle parts that can't be legally driven for more than a week, unless it sits inside a fully enclosed building, under Zoning Ordinance Sec. 90-314(4).
(a)No motor vehicle required to display registration plates to operate on a public roadway shall be parked or stored in the open for more than seven days without bearing a current registration plate issued for that motor vehicle.(b)No motor vehicle which is not fully capable of being lawfully operated on a public roadway, nor any major component or parts of any motor vehicle, shall be stored for more than seven days unless stored in a fully enclosed building.(c)Responsibility for compliance with this subsection shall lie with the occupants of single-family and two-family residences. In all other residential areas, including vacant lands, responsibility shall lie with the property owners or person in charge thereof.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 26 Update 2).
Full Breakdown
Sec. 90-314, "Repairs to parking and storage of vehicles in residential districts," sits in Chapter 90 of Wyoming's Zoning Ordinance. Subsection (4)(a) requires any motor vehicle needing a state registration plate to carry a current plate if parked or stored outdoors for more than seven days. Subsection (4)(b) separately bars storing any vehicle that isn't fully capable of lawful operation, or major components or parts of one, outdoors past seven days unless it's inside a fully enclosed building. Subsection (4)(c) places responsibility on the occupants of single-family and two-family residences, and, for every other residential area including vacant land, on the property owner or person in charge of the site.
outside a closed garage. A separate WPMC amendment, Sec. 8 of Chapter 10, imposes a parallel citywide ban on dismantled, inoperable, unregistered, or unlicensed vehicles, machinery, or equipment parked or stored outdoors on any premises, except as expressly allowed by the zoning ordinance or form-based code. Chapter 90 does not set its own fine for a Sec. 90-314 violation, so it defaults to the city's general municipal civil infraction schedule in Sec. 1-27(e).
Violations & Fines
A Sec. 90-314 violation defaults to the city's general municipal civil infraction schedule at Sec. 1-27(e): $75 for a first offense, $500 for a second offense within one year, and $2,500 for a third within one year, plus costs. Code enforcement officers, housing and building inspectors, and police officers are all authorized to issue the citation under Sec. 1-27(h), and each day the vehicle remains counts as a separate offense.
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