Newark, OH Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Section 452.035 of the Newark Code of Ordinances, passed by the Newark City Council in 1991 and amended in 2005, regulates heavy vehicles parked on the street where people live. Its first division defines a "residence district" by frontage rather than by zoning map: territory fronting on a highway, street or roadway between successive intersections, where less than fifty percent of the frontage is occupied by buildings used for business, or where, for a distance of 300 feet or more, the frontage is improved with residences or residences and buildings in use for business.

Inside such an area, division (b) says no person shall stop, park or leave standing upon a public highway, street or roadway a commercial tractor, truck, semitractor or trailer, whether attended or unattended, for more than four hours. The weight carve-out is written into the same sentence: vehicles of one and one-half tons gross vehicle weight or less, not including their loads, are outside the rule, and so are small vehicles and pick-up trucks. The clock is four hours, so a driver who parks a rig for a short stop is not in violation, but a truck left overnight on a residential block is.

Division (c) lists three exceptions: vehicles whose purpose is loading or unloading cargo, street maintenance equipment, and vehicles engaged in construction or business activity of limited duration. A plumber's service truck at a house under repair or a moving van at a residence therefore sits outside the four-hour limit while the work is under way. Division (d) routes enforcement through Section 407.03, the parking ticket procedure.

The section reaches vehicles on a public highway, street or roadway. Other chapter 452 rules apply to the same trucks on every street, including the prohibited places in 452.03, and Section 454.10 limits commercial trucks loading in marked parking zones to thirty minutes. Under 452.10, testimony that the vehicle carried a plate issued to the defendant, backed by the Ohio Registrar record, is prima-facie evidence that the defendant parked it.