Blaine, MN Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Blaine City Code Section 82-67 bans parking trucks, farm trucks, semitrailers, special mobile equipment, truck tractors, farm implements or tractors, buses, and vehicles carrying or designed to carry explosive or flammable materials, along with any vehicle exceeding 12,000 pounds gross vehicle weight, on public or private property in a residential district. The farm residential and agricultural zoning districts are excluded from the ban, and pickup trucks and vans rated under 12,000 pounds gross vehicle weight are exempt outright regardless of district. The section carves out two exceptions: recreational motor vehicles may park as long as they are not used to display advertising or offer a service, and any of the otherwise-banned vehicles may make a short-term stop of two hours or less to actively load, unload, or perform a service call.

Auxiliary motors or engines on a vehicle cannot run except while the vehicle is actively loading, unloading, or performing a service, and a semitrailer cannot be left unattached from its tractor on any city street for any length of time except in an emergency tractor change. Section 82-67 adopts the vehicle-weight definitions in Minnesota Statutes Section 168.002 by reference. A violation is a misdemeanor, subject to the sanctions in the state traffic statutes the city has adopted by reference in Section 82-2, which for a Code violation not declared a petty misdemeanor defaults to the general penalty in Section 1-7: a fine up to $1,000.00, up to 90 days in jail, or both.