Lubbock, TX Parking Rules: Curb Color Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Trigger
- Signs erected or curb painted
- Applies to
- Hazardous or congested approaches
- Related rule
- Same standard at hotel/theater entrances
- Related rule
- Same standard next to schools
- Marking authority
- City traffic engineer, § 20.02.032
Summary
Where Lubbock has posted signs or painted curbs at hazardous or congested spots, stopping, standing or parking there is against the law. The same painted-curb-or-sign rule separately covers hotel and theater entrances and areas next to schools.
When signs are erected or curbs painted upon the approach to hazardous or congested places, indicating no parking, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any such designated place.
Full Breakdown
008 makes it unlawful to stop, stand or park a vehicle in any place where the city has erected signs or painted curbs on the approach to a hazardous or congested location, indicating no parking. The rule dates to Ordinance 890, adopted November 10, 1948, and was carried forward into the 1983 Code and again in the 2012 recodification. 010 bars parking on either side of a street adjacent to school property wherever signs are erected or curbs are painted indicating no parking. 032, which lets the traffic engineer regulate parking citywide by erecting signs or markers for prohibited or limited parking, restricted zones, loading zones and similar purposes.
Violations & Fines
Stopping, standing or parking where curbs are painted or signs posted for no parking under section 20.04.008 is a parking offense enforced by the police department, cited and prosecuted through Lubbock Municipal Court; vehicles left in violation are subject to citation and, where they obstruct traffic or a hazardous area, impoundment under the city's illegal-parking and abandoned-vehicle procedures.
Frequently Asked Questions
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