Billings, MT Parking Rules: Curb Color Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Curb color
- Yellow, uniform citywide
- Governing section
- Sec. 24-403
- Exceptions
- Traffic conflicts, police direction
- Former title
- "Curb painting" (renamed 2002)
Summary
Billings paints curbs yellow to mark no-parking zones, and stopping or parking against a yellow curb is illegal citywide.
The appropriate city department as designated by the city administrator is hereby authorized and directed to paint street curbs yellow to reinforce no parking zone designations. The yellow color is to be uniform throughout the city. No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the law or the direction of a police officer or traffic-control device when the curb is painted yellow.
(Ord. No. 82-4484, § 1, 12-20-82; Ord. No. 02-5232, § 4, 12-9-02)
Editor's note— Ord. No. 02-5232, § 4, adopted December 9, 2002, changed the title of § 24-403 from "curb painting" to "yellow zone." The historical notation has been retained for reference purposes.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 66 Update 2).
Full Breakdown
Under Sec. 24-403, the city administrator's designated department paints street curbs yellow to reinforce no-parking zone designations, and the yellow color must be uniform citywide. No one may stop, stand, or park a vehicle against a yellow-painted curb except to avoid a traffic conflict, comply with law, or follow a police officer's or traffic-control device's direction. The section was originally titled "curb painting" before a 2002 ordinance renamed it "yellow zone," but the rule itself is unchanged.
Violations & Fines
Parking against a yellow curb draws a citation under Sec. 24-403; repeat violators risk towing under the city's broader parking-enforcement authority.
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