Springfield, OH Parking Rules: Curb Color Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- § 351.03(a)(14)
- Yellow curb
- No standing or parking
- Also covered
- Signed no-parking, posted time limits
- Original ordinance
- Ord. 67-14, passed 1-9-67
- First offense
- Minor misdemeanor
Summary
In the City of Springfield, Ohio § 351.03(a)(14) makes it illegal to stand or park where the curbing or street has been painted yellow, alongside signed no-parking zones and posted time-limited spaces. The rule sits inside the same section listing all seventeen prohibited standing and parking locations citywide.
351.03 PROHIBITED STANDING OR PARKING PLACES. ... (a) No person shall stand or park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or to comply with the provisions of this Traffic Code, or while obeying the directions of a police officer or a traffic control device, in any of the following places: ... (14) At any place where signs prohibit stopping, standing or parking, or where the curbing or street is painted yellow, or at any place in excess of the maximum time limited by signs; ... (c) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
Full Breakdown
Springfield Codified Ordinances § 351.03(a)(14) specifically prohibits standing or parking at any place where signs prohibit stopping, standing or parking, or where the curbing or street is painted yellow, or at any place beyond the maximum time posted by signs. This clause sits within the broader subsection (a) opening, which bars standing or parking except when necessary to avoid a traffic conflict, to comply with the Traffic Code, or while obeying a police officer's or traffic control device's direction. Unlike the numbered fixed-distance restrictions elsewhere in the same list (driveways, hydrants, crosswalks), the yellow-curb rule depends on the city's own paint marking rather than a measured distance, so the Service Department's street-marking crews and the Springfield Police Division jointly determine and enforce where the color applies.
Ordinance 67-14, passed January 9, 1967, is the original enactment for this subsection, which has been amended since (most recently for the sidewalk-parking carve-out in Ordinance 22-244, 2022) without changing the yellow-curb clause itself.
Violations & Fines
Under § 351.03(c), a first offense for parking at a yellow curb is a minor misdemeanor. A second offense within one year, following a prior predicate motor vehicle or traffic conviction, is a fourth-degree misdemeanor, and a third or later offense in that year is a third-degree misdemeanor, mirroring the escalation used across the rest of the parking chapter.
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