Chesapeake, VA Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Sec. 74-250(c) states it "shall be unlawful for any person to park any bus that has a carrying capacity of more than nine passengers, any truck that has a carrying capacity of more than one ton, any tractor that can be detached from a trailer, any major recreational equipment, or any utility trailer not connected to a legally registered motor vehicle on any street in a residential district in the city except for the purpose of loading or unloading." The section defines "major recreational equipment" broadly to include "boats, boat trailers, travel trailers, pickup campers or coaches (designed to be mounted on automotive vehicles), motorized dwellings, tent trailers and the like and cases or boxes used for transporting recreational equipment, whether occupied by such equipment or not," and defines "utility trailer" to include flatbed, open and enclosed trailers used for private or commercial hauling.

A separate nighttime rule in subsection (b) bars the same class of buses, trucks and detachable tractors from any street in the city, residential or not, between 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., again except while loading or unloading. Two carve-outs apply to both rules: subsection (d) exempts public school buses transporting children, and subsection (e) exempts church buses transporting congregation members. Enforcement runs through the standard illegal-parking notice at Sec. 74-255, or the city or property owner may instead have the offending vehicle towed to a licensed garage under subsection (f), provided a police officer is notified at the time of the tow, with each 24-hour period of continued violation treated as a separate offense.