Hempstead, NY Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Town Code § 202-64 defines a wide set of covered vehicles, including any "motor-driven vehicle registered as a commercial vehicle or used for commercial purposes," trucks ("designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property"), buses, tractors, trailers, semitrailers, house coaches and taxicabs. of any day. Three exceptions apply: authorized emergency vehicles and public utility or contractor vehicles engaged in repair, maintenance, inspection or construction of streets or utilities (Subsection C); vehicles actively loading or unloading merchandise or passengers, or providing services to a resident or business (Subsection D); and the Town is required to post notice of the restriction at entry roads and highways (Subsection E).

The chapter's general penalty provision, § 202-62, was last amended October 2, 2008 by Local Law No. 75-2008, effective October 10, 2008, and applies townwide to Chapter 202 offenses, including night parking violations, unless a more specific penalty is enacted for that article. Because the ban covers the whole town outside its incorporated villages, a truck driver working in one of Hempstead's many villages (Freeport, Rockville Centre, Garden City, and others) is instead subject to that village's own separate parking code, not this section.