Franklin, TN Parking Rules: EV Charging (2026)

Section 15-607 sits inside Title 15, Chapter 6, the city's general stopping, standing, and parking article, so it inherits that chapter's baseline rule from § 15-601: parking prohibitions apply at all times a space is marked, except when a stop is unavoidable to avoid a traffic conflict or is made at a police officer's direction. Applied to EV charging, that means any public parking space carrying a sign or pavement marking that uses the term 'electric vehicle charging,' or otherwise reasonably identifies the space for that purpose, is off-limits to a parked vehicle unless the vehicle is actively charging at the time.

The rule targets both gasoline vehicles that occupy a charging space without ever plugging in and electric vehicles that finish charging but remain parked in the space, since the ordinance conditions lawful occupancy on active charging, not merely on the vehicle being electric. Like other Chapter 6 parking offenses, an EV-charging-space violation carries the presumption in § 15-616 that the registered owner of an unoccupied vehicle found in violation is responsible for the illegal parking, and it is cited through the same illegal-parking procedure at § 15-703 that a police officer or transit inspector, also called the parking ambassador, uses citywide.

The city has not carved out a separate fine for this specific subsection; it is treated as a Chapter 6 parking citation and priced on Appendix A's general parking-citation schedule.