Augusta-Richmond County, GA Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

' Section 3-5-131, 'Time limit for trucks,' targets any truck or other freight-carrying vehicle, including any truck tractor, once it tops one-ton capacity and rides on three or more axles: parked or standing longer than an hour on any public street, highway, or residentially zoned lot, day or night, and it is in violation. The only carve-out runs through Section 3-5-127, which lets a commercial vehicle enter a restricted street at the intersection nearest its delivery or pickup point and go no farther than the next intersection before it must leave.

A companion rule at Section 3-5-132 requires an attendant: any truck or bus with a body wider than eight feet or taller than ten feet cannot stop or stand on a street or public place unless its driver or chauffeur is actually present. The code's traffic definitions at Section 3-5-1 define 'Truck' broadly as every motor vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property, so pickups hauling trailers or box trucks over the one-ton, three-axle threshold both qualify. Because Title 3 predates the county's 1996 city-county consolidation but still governs citywide, the one-hour clock applies the same whether the residential street sits in a former Augusta neighborhood or a former unincorporated Richmond County subdivision; it does not reach Blythe or Hephzibah, which run their own municipal codes. Enforcement rests with the Richmond County Sheriff's Office traffic division.