Jacksonville, NC Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Section 25-123, titled "Same, Commercial vehicles" because it sits immediately after the residential duration limit in § 25-122, imposes a flat prohibition rather than a time limit: commercial vehicles may not be parked or stored in residential areas of Jacksonville at all. The section borrows its definition of "commercial vehicle" from the city's zoning ordinance rather than defining the term itself, so what counts turns on that separate land-use instrument's classification, not on anything printed in Chapter 25. The single carve-out in the section is for a commercial vehicle actively loading or unloading fuel oil, goods, wares or merchandise, meaning a delivery truck can stop briefly to make a delivery but cannot be left parked or stored on a residential street afterward.

The rule traces to Code of 1968 § 15-32, the same source section as the neighboring duration limit, and was amended by Ord. No. 05-03 (February 8, 2005) before receiving the current Class 3 misdemeanor penalty clause under Ord. No. 2022-08 (January 18, 2022). Because the ban applies to storage as well as parking, leaving a commercial vehicle in a residential driveway indefinitely can violate the section even where it never sits in the street itself, depending on how "residential areas" is applied alongside the zoning ordinance's commercial-vehicle definition. Jacksonville Police Department officers enforce the section as part of routine parking and traffic patrol.