New Orleans, LA Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

City Code § 154-925 opens with a legislative finding that parking large or oversize vehicles on or near public streets threatens public health, safety, and welfare: contributing to accidents, blocking emergency vehicles, and degrading neighborhood quality of life. Subsection (b) makes it unlawful to park or store a truck, recreational vehicle/camper, storage container, utility trailer, tractor, semitrailer, boat, bus, school bus, freight-carrying vehicle, trailer, tow truck, or dump truck (unless actively loading or unloading) in any RD, RM, or RS residential district, any B-1, B-1A, or B-2 neighborhood business district, the Vieux Carré (bounded by Iberville, North Rampart, Esplanade, and the river), or on St.

Charles Avenue between I-10 and the river. Even outside those districts, subsection (c) caps unattended parking of these vehicles at two hours on any street, sidewalk, or public right-of-way, and subsection (d) extends a similar two-hour cap to restricted private-property parking areas open to the public, though it exempts permitted truck stops, wash facilities, RTA storage, and repair yards. Subsection (e) separately bars commercial buses from stopping on St. Charles Avenue between Jackson and Louisiana Avenues except in signed bus-loading zones. Enforcement runs through citations served on the operator, with a rebuttable presumption that the registered owner was driving.