Fayetteville, NC Parking Rules: Curb Color Rules (2026)

Sec. 16-295, "Streets on Which Parking Prohibited at All Times," ties the no-parking rule to two interchangeable forms of notice: a sign that's been placed, erected, or installed giving notice of the restriction, or curbing that's been painted yellow in lieu of such a sign. Either one is legally sufficient. Once one of the two is in place on a street listed on the city's adopted "parking prohibited" traffic schedule (the schedule itself is adopted under Sec. 16-61), parking there is unlawful at any time of day, not just during posted hours.

This gives the city a cheaper enforcement tool than sign installation on every restricted block: a stretch of yellow-painted curb is treated in law exactly like a sign for purposes of establishing the violation. The section was re-adopted under Ord. No. S2019-056 on November 25, 2019, and cross-references the streets and sidewalks provisions of Chapter 24. It sits alongside the related Sec. 16-296 restricted parking zones, which govern marked "loading and unloading," "restricted parking," and "fire lane" spaces separately from the blanket no-parking streets covered here; those carry their own $25 to $100 penalties, while Sec. 16-295 itself states no specific dollar figure, so a yellow-curb violation defaults to the Chapter 1 general civil penalty and citation procedure.