Gary, IN Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Section 40-295(a) makes it unlawful to park a commercial vehicle in any city alley, though a truck or trailer bearing an attached truck or trailer license may load or unload there for up to one hour, provided it does not straddle or completely block the alley. Section 40-295(c) separately bars parking any bus, truck, truck tractor, semitrailer, or trailer exceeding three-fourths ton capacity of standard design on a street or alley in an area zoned residential, semi-commercial, or commercial, except for expeditious delivery or pickup of materials, meaning ordinary overnight or long-term parking of such vehicles in those zoned areas is prohibited outright.

Section 40-295(d) further prohibits parking a commercial vehicle in the congested district to load or unload between 6:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. and between 3:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., the city's rush-hour windows, though that restriction does not apply to the one-hour alley loading allowance under subsection (a). Together these three subsections give Gary three separate commercial-vehicle controls: an alley loading cap, a residential-district parking ban tied to vehicle size, and a downtown rush-hour loading blackout. The section traces to a series of ordinances from 1953 through 1961 (Ord.

Nos. 1556, 2831, 2876, 2886, 3099, 3337) and sits in Article V, Division 1 alongside the general no-parking list in Section 40-292. Enforcement runs through Section 40-287's Article V penalty scheme, fining first offenses under Chapter 20 and sending repeat offenders to the regular city court docket for a Section 1-7 fine.