Lacey, WA Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

LMC 10.14.020(A) is the City of Lacey's rule for work trucks and similar equipment left on public ground. It prohibits parking any commercial vehicle, farm vehicle, or special mobile equipment upon the improved or unimproved portion of any street, alley, public right-of-way or publicly owned parking lot for more than four hours. The rule reaches public property only: it is a limit on streets, alleys, rights-of-way and city-owned lots, not a zoning rule about what a resident keeps on a private driveway.

There are two printed exceptions. First, such a vehicle can be parked temporarily to load or unload. Second, a vehicle under ten thousand pounds gross weight can be parked overnight at the residence of the person responsible for the vehicle. A heavier truck gets no overnight allowance, so a vehicle at or above that weight left on the street at home is still held to the four-hour limit.

Subsection C closes the obvious workaround. Parking a commercial or recreational vehicle in another location within the city, on the improved or unimproved portion of any street, alley, public right-of-way or publicly owned parking lot, within any twenty-four-hour period is itself a violation. Moving a truck down the block does not restart the clock. Subsection D exempts vehicles owned by the city, its agents, or assigns.

The city manager or designee is authorized by LMC 10.14.045 to permit vehicles to park beyond the time periods in the chapter under policies and procedures the city manager develops. Enforcement is by the Lacey Police Department under LMC 10.14.040: any violation of the chapter is a parking infraction, and a police officer is authorized to order impoundment or removal to a place of safety.