Jonesboro, AR Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

Sec. 66-190, 'Parking on private property prohibited,' is a single-sentence rule carried into the current code from Ord. No. 09 of the 2006 code before its current numbering. The text draws no distinction between a driveway, a yard, or a commercial lot: any vehicle placed on private property without the owner's consent is unlawful, and the section does not carve out a grace period for a delivery stop or a brief visit. It sits in Article V, Division 1 of the traffic and vehicles chapter, alongside the article's other general parking rules such as the prohibition on parking to interfere with normal traffic flow (Sec.

66-188) and the ban on using a street or lot to display a vehicle for sale (Sec. 66-191). Unlike the state's uninvited-parking and abandoned-vehicle provisions elsewhere in the code, Sec. 66-190 itself does not authorize the property owner or the city to tow or remove the offending vehicle; it establishes only that the act of parking without consent is a punishable offense, leaving removal to whatever separate towing or nuisance authority applies. Because it applies citywide with no zoning carve-out, it functions as Jonesboro's general trespass-parking rule, covering a stranger's car left in a homeowner's driveway as much as a truck parked on a vacant commercial lot.