Bernalillo County, NM Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)
Key Facts
- Authority
- County manager or designee
- Trigger
- Posted signs, street-by-street
- Delivery exception
- Nearest cross street to destination
- Applies to
- Unincorporated county only
Summary
The county manager can post signs banning commercial vehicles and load-limited trucks from specific unincorporated county streets, including side residential streets used as cut-throughs.
The county manager, or his designated representative, is hereby authorized, upon the basis of engineering or traffic investigation, to establish load restrictions upon streets; to prohibit commercial vehicles from certain streets; to prohibit through traffic from using side residential streets; ...to erect and maintain any and all necessary signs, markers, barriers or other devices to give notice thereof.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 92).
Full Breakdown
Under Sec. 82-1, the county manager or a designee can study a street and post signs prohibiting commercial vehicles from it, or barring through traffic from side residential streets, whenever engineering or traffic data supports the restriction. Sec. 82-2 backs this with a weight-limit tool: once a sign caps gross vehicle weight on a street or bridge, no commercial vehicle over that limit may drive on it, except to deliver or pick up materials at the nearest cross street to its destination. There is no blanket residential ban, the restriction only applies where signs are actually posted. This governs unincorporated county roads only; Albuquerque enforces its own truck-route rules under its Integrated Development Ordinance.
Violations & Fines
Operating a commercial vehicle in violation of a posted street or bridge weight-limit sign is punishable as provided in Sec. 1-6, the county's general penalty section for code violations.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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