Louisville, KY Parking Rules: Curb Color Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Marking color
- Solid yellow, face and top of curb
- Authority
- Director of Works
- Enforceable only if
- Curb actually painted or signed
- Citation
- Louisville Metro Code § 72.036(D)
Summary
Louisville Metro paints curb faces solid yellow to mark no-parking zones, and parking against a yellow curb is banned at all times under the traffic code.
When a curb has been painted in compliance with the provisions of subsection (F) below, no person shall park a vehicle at any time at or adjacent to any curb so marked.
(E) When signs are erected in compliance with the provisions of subsection
(F) below, in each block giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle between the hours specified by official signs on any day except Sundays on any street so marked.
(F) (1) The Director of Works shall determine on what streets or portions thereof stopping or parking shall be restricted or prohibited. Whenever under authority of or by this traffic code or any other ordinance any parking limit is imposed or parking is prohibited on designated streets, or parking areas are restricted to handicapped parking, it shall be the duty of the Director of Works to erect appropriate signs giving notice thereof. However, in lieu of erecting such signs or in conjunction therewith, the Director of Works may cause the face and top of a curb or curbs at or adjacent to which parking is prohibited at all times to be painted a solid yellow color.
(2) No such regulations or restrictions shall be effective unless the signs have been erected and are in place or the curbs are painted yellow at the time of any alleged offense, except in the case of those parking restrictions which by their very nature would not require such signs and markings.
(G) When signs are erected in compliance with subsection (F) above in each
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2026 S-47: Supplement contains: Local legislation current through Ordinances passed by the Council and approved by the Mayor as of July 1, 2026).
Full Breakdown
Louisville Metro Code § 72.036(D) bars parking at or adjacent to any curb painted under subsection (F). The Director of Works may paint the face and top of a curb solid yellow instead of, or along with, posting signs wherever parking is prohibited at all times. Under § 72.036(F)(2), the restriction is only enforceable once the curb is actually painted yellow (or signs are posted): an unpainted curb can't be ticketed under this section. This applies citywide in Louisville Metro; home rule cities inside Jefferson County (Anchorage, Jeffersontown, St. Matthews, etc.) that maintain their own streets set their own curb-marking rules.
Violations & Fines
Parking against a properly painted yellow curb is a parking violation citable under § 72.036(D), penalized per § 72.999 with a fine set by the Metro parking violations bureau.
Frequently Asked Questions
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