Auburn, AL Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Section 22-32 targets any commercial motor vehicle, utility trailer or semi-trailer over seven (7) feet wide or twenty-five (25) feet long, expressly naming construction equipment such as bulldozers and graders, semi-tractors and trailers, moving vans, delivery trucks, flat-bed and stake-bed trucks, and buses other than school buses. Parking or storing such a vehicle on any public street, alley or other public way is prohibited except in three narrow circumstances: loading and unloading capped at twenty-four (24) hours, work tied to a properly permitted construction project capped at seventy-two (72) hours, and parking connected to an adjacent business's operation, also capped at seventy-two (72) hours and only where the street is at least thirty-one (31) feet wide.

The rule was enacted by Ordinance No. 2754 in 2012 and amended by Ordinance No. 2905 in December 2014. 00), with a new ticket issuable every 24 hours the vehicle stays put, and a mandatory court appearance after the third violation. The registered owner is presumed to have been driving at the time of the violation, shifting the burden to that owner to prove otherwise.