Lynchburg, VA Parking Rules: Curb Color Rules (2026)

Sec. 6 of Appendix D to the 2015 International Fire Code, which Lynchburg has adopted with local amendments under Sec. 19-42. The same section requires the curbing within the limits of any fire lane to be painted yellow, giving drivers and enforcement officers a visual marker independent of the posted signs. Once installed, those markings are protected: Sec. 7 makes it unlawful for any person to deface, injure, tamper with, remove, destroy or impair the usefulness of a posted fire lane sign. Enforcement of the parking prohibition itself runs through Sec.

4 of the fire code and sets up a rebuttable evidentiary shortcut: proof that a cited vehicle was parked in the fire lane, combined with proof the defendant was the registered owner at that time, creates a prima facie presumption that the registered owner did the parking. Any vehicle blocking a marked fire lane can be towed to the nearest storage garage by an officer discovering the obstruction or acting on a report of one, with the Division of Motor Vehicles and the vehicle's owner notified as promptly as possible. Before the owner can reclaim the vehicle, they must pay all reasonable and necessary towing and storage costs to whoever performed the removal.