Norman, OK Parking Rules: EV Charging (2026)

Article 2-VI of the Norman code covers the City's own electric-vehicle charging infrastructure rather than private stations. Under NCC 2-601, the City Manager sets the price per kilowatt hour for anyone besides Norman itself using the stations, in consultation with the Public Works Department and the Finance Director. The factors the City Manager has to weigh are spelled out in the code: market conditions, the station's ongoing and future operating and maintenance needs, and what the City actually pays to acquire the electricity. Because those inputs move, the code lets the City Manager reset the per-kWh rate as frequently as daily, or as infrequently as quarterly, without going back to Council each time.

NCC 2-602 separately lets the City Manager or a designee designate specific parking spaces for the exclusive use of recharging electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles, install signage, and require the spaces be clearly marked. The section also locks down definitions the pricing rule depends on: a charging station is a publicly accessible parking space with equipment installed to connect vehicles to electricity, an electric vehicle must be legally licensed to drive on public roads and draw at least part of its motive power from a battery, and a qualifying plug-in hybrid must combine a combustion engine with an electric motor, charge primarily from the grid or another off-board source, and be able to travel under electric power alone.