Reading, PA Parking Rules: Curb Color Rules (2026)

Section 576-403 opens with a blanket rule: except to avoid a traffic conflict, protect someone's safety, or follow a police officer's or traffic-control device's direction, no one may stop, stand or park in the areas the section lists. Subsection B covers standing or parking, and its ninth item bars parking 'at a yellow curb' anywhere in the city, with no distance or duration exception given, unlike the feet-based rules around it (7 feet from a hydrant, 20 feet from a crosswalk, 30 feet from a traffic signal).

Chapter 576's Director, the Director of Public Works or a designated representative, has authority under § 576-102 to install permanent curb markings and parking regulations by ordinance or Council resolution. 50 within thirty. A must state the penalty amount, the payment deadline (240 hours to the Reading Parking Authority), where to pay and how. B also makes it a towable offense: it is 'subject to immediate towing and storage,' with removal and storage costs billed to the vehicle's owner and the car held until those costs are paid.

The Reading Chief of Police retains discretion to void a ticket issued by the Parking Authority or Police Department, documenting the reason, though that discretion does not replace the Parking Authority's own appeal process.