Porter County, IN Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Article VIII of Chapter 24 of the Porter County Code, adopted by Ord. No. 010), targets commercial vehicles parked in recorded residential subdivisions that sit in the county's unincorporated territory, meaning outside the corporate limits of Valparaiso, Portage, Chesterton, or any other town. Section 24-192(a) caps parking of any truck, trailer, or commercial-type motor vehicle on the paved portion of a subdivision street or highway at two hours, with no overnight or weekend exception. Section 24-192(b) goes further: outside that paved-street allowance, a truck or commercial vehicle may not be parked anywhere in the subdivision at all unless it sits on an established private drive, closing off yards, gravel shoulders, and cul-de-sac aprons as workaround spots.

Section 24-193 defines the 'paved portion of any street or highway' broadly, covering surfaces improved with concrete, asphalt, stone, gravel, slag, cinders, or similar material, so a gravel-topped subdivision street is treated the same as a paved one. The article applies only to county-zoned residential subdivisions outside incorporated towns; Valparaiso, Portage, and Chesterton enforce their own municipal parking codes inside their limits, so a truck legally parked at a home just inside Portage is not governed by this county rule. There is no permit or exception process built into the article for contractors or movers; the two-hour clock and private-drive requirement apply uniformly to every truck, trailer, or commercial combination regardless of purpose.