Knoxville, TN Parking Rules: EV Charging (2026)

(c)Where signs designating a parking space for the exclusive use of recharging electric vehicles are erected, no person shall park a vehicle upon any street, municipal parking lot, municipal parking garage, or portion of any street, parking lot, or parking garage so signed unless such vehicle is an electric vehicle and is connected to an electric charging station.(d)Violators of this section may be issued a parking ticket attached to the vehicle or a citation to court and the vehicle may be towed to an impoundment lot at the owner's expense and stored at the owner's expense. Signs designating recharging electric vehicle parking shall indicate that unauthorized or improperly parked vehicles may be towed and the driver fined fifty dollars ($50.00).(e)Any merchant or owner of a privately owned parking lot maintained for use by the general public is hereby authorized to designate, by the installation of appropriate signs, parking spaces for the exclusive use of recharging electric. Enforcement shall be responsibility of the owner of the private property. (Ord. No. O-203-2012, § 1, 11-27-12)