Queen Creek, AZ Parking Rules: EV Charging (2026)

Town Code Section 9-7-11, Parking in Electric Vehicle Charging Spaces, is a single, narrow rule: no person shall stand or park a conveyance in an electric vehicle charging space at any time except for the use of charging a vehicle. That means an EV charging space is off-limits to gas-powered vehicles and to electric vehicles that are simply parked without charging, not just to non-EVs, since the text ties lawful use to the act of charging rather than to vehicle type alone. The section was adopted by Ordinance 823-23 on November 1, 2023, as part of the broader 2023 rewrite of Article 9-7 Parking and Obstructions, which also added the Town's overnight-parking (Section 9-7-12) and Town-property parking rules (Section 9-7-10) in the same ordinance action.

Unlike some of the Article's other provisions, this section carries no distance, time, or duration qualifier of its own: the prohibition applies at any time, so the only question is whether the vehicle is actually charging. Enforcement runs through the Queen Creek Police Department and other Authorized Enforcement Agents designated under Section 9-1-1, and a violation is a Civil Offense punished under the townwide schedule in Section 9-21-2(C): a $250 civil penalty for a first offense, $500 for a second within 12 months, and $2,000 for a third within that same rolling period, calculated backward from the most recent violation.