Provo, UT Parking Rules: Curb Color Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Required wording
- "Visitor Parking Only"
- Marking method
- curb paint, pavement paint, or signage
- Maintenance standard
- sized and maintained for readability
- Who enforces it
- the property owner, not the City
- General striping width
- 3 inches minimum, white or yellow paint
- Governing section
- Provo City Code 14.37.090(4)-(5)
Summary
Provo requires every visitor parking space in an off-street lot to be identified by curb or pavement painting, or by signage, reading "Visitor Parking Only." Under City Code Section 14.37.090(5), the paint or sign must stay sized and maintained enough to read clearly, and the property owner, not the City, is responsible for enforcing the designation.
(4) Except for single-family residential, public and private parking areas shall be striped before use to clearly demarcate required parking spaces... Striping shall be at least three (3) inches wide and shall consist of white or yellow paint designed for this purpose. (5) Where visitor parking is required, each such space shall be clearly identified by the use of signage or painting of the curb or pavement surface. Such signage or painting shall include the words "Visitor Parking Only" and shall be sized and routinely maintained to ensure readability. The property owner shall enforce the "Visitor Parking Only" requirements of this Title.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance 2026-17, passed June 9, 2026).
Full Breakdown
090, General Provisions and Required Improvement and Maintenance. Subsection (4) requires that, apart from single-family residential lots, every public and private parking area be striped before use so spaces are clearly demarcated; the striping must be at least three inches wide and painted in white or yellow paint designed for pavement marking, and maintained in functional condition as climate and usage dictate. " The code sets no minimum letter size, but it does require the marking to be sized and routinely maintained to ensure readability, meaning faded or peeling curb paint is itself a maintenance lapse the Development Services Director can flag.
Enforcement of the visitor-only designation is placed on the property owner, not city parking enforcement staff; the ordinance states plainly that the property owner shall enforce the "Visitor Parking Only" requirements of the Title. 110, which lets an owner or agent tow or boot a vehicle that violates private-property parking regulations restricting parking to authorized tenants and visitors. Required parking, including visitor stalls, must also sit on the same lot as the building it serves under Subsection (1), and wheel stops are required outside single-family lots under Subsection (3) so vehicles cannot overhang the curb the paint is applied to.
Violations & Fines
Faded, missing, or illegible curb paint or signage on a required visitor stall is a maintenance lapse the Development Services Director can cite under Chapter 14.37; the code treats an unreadable marking the same as never having marked the space. Because the City places enforcement of the "Visitor Parking Only" designation on the property owner, unauthorized vehicles parked in a properly marked visitor stall can be towed or booted by the owner or an authorized towing agent under Section 9.31.110, at the vehicle owner's expense.
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