Skowhegan, ME Parking Rules: Curb Color Rules (2026)

The Town of Skowhegan, Maine ties its short-term parking limits to painted or marked curb and street lines. This page covers that marking requirement in the Traffic Ordinance (October 27, 2020 version); the ordinance prints no color code and no rule on who may paint a curb. Sec. 53 makes it unlawful to park any motor vehicle in the listed parking space longer than fifteen minutes where lines are painted or durably marked on the curb or street designating a parking space and a sign is posted designating fifteen minute parking. The listed spaces are on Elm Street (the last stall east of the entrance to the Skowhegan Savings Bank, proceeding westerly from Madison Avenue), Commercial Street (the first and last stall on the south side, proceeding westerly from Water Street) and Madison Avenue (the last stall at the southeast corner of the avenue). The rule runs between 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M., Monday through Saturday, except legal holidays.

Sec. 54 applies the same two-part test, painted or durably marked lines plus a posted sign, to a two hour limit on named streets and lots, including Water Street, Madison Avenue, Commercial Street, Elm Street, Court Street, the Municipal Parking Lot, the Indian Lot north of High Street and the River View Parking Lot. It runs between 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M., Monday through Saturday, except legal holidays. Sec. 56 says that, for two hour enforcement, a vehicle is in violation when parked in the same stall longer than two hours and then once per hour thereafter.

Markings matter elsewhere in the ordinance. Sec. 41 requires parking within designated stalls as indicated by curb or street marking lines in the Municipal Parking Lot, and Sec. 47 treats parking outside an area designated by painted lines as double parking. Sec. 36 and Sec. 37 let the Board of Selectmen change time limits and require posting in all areas affected.