Jupiter, FL Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Section 27-2854, part of Division 33's rules for parking vehicles, recreational vehicles, boats, buses, trailers and trucks in residential districts, makes it unlawful for any owner, agent, operator or person in charge of a bus, pole trailer, semi-trailer, special mobile equipment, trailer, truck exceeding three-fourths-ton rated capacity, or truck tractor to park, store or keep that vehicle on any public street, avenue, alley, other thoroughfare or right-of-way within a residential district for more than one hour, unless the vehicle is engaged in legitimate loading or unloading.

Subsection (b) extends the same one-hour cap to private property: no owner of residential property may park, or allow to be parked, one of these vehicles on the lot itself or on the abutting street, alley or parkway for longer than an hour outside of loading or unloading. The town explains its purpose in section 27-2853: preserving the residential character of every residential district, including the Neighborhood Subdistrict of the Mixed Use Development District and the Residential Subdistrict of the Inlet Village Zoning District. Section 27-2855 carves out three exceptions.

A contractor's truck or heavy equipment may sit on a residential lot past the hour if construction is underway under a currently valid, properly displayed town building permit. Tradesmen making deliveries or service calls are exempt from the one-hour clock in subsection (b) as long as the extra time is actually spent on the delivery or service call. And if a covered vehicle becomes disabled inside a residential district, it may stay past the hour only during the emergency, but it must be towed out of the district within 24 hours regardless of the reason for the breakdown.