East Baton Rouge Parish, LA Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Under Baton Rouge/EBRP Code Sec. 11:426, the director of the department of public works sets the location of passenger and freight curb loading zones and must post signs marking each zone and stating the hours the restriction applies. In a marked passenger curb loading zone, no one may stop, stand or park a vehicle, or let a vehicle registered to them be parked there, for any purpose other than the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers during posted hours, and only for the time specified on the zone's sign.

In a marked freight curb loading zone, stopping is limited the same way to the expeditious loading, unloading, pickup or delivery of materials during posted hours, and the stop cannot exceed the time specified for that zone. Section 11:426(d) carves out one exception: the driver of a passenger vehicle may stop at a freight curb loading zone for up to three minutes to load or unload passengers, but only if the stop does not interfere with a materials-hauling vehicle that is waiting to enter or about to enter the zone.

The definitions section of Title 11, Sec. " Curb loading zones sit in Chapter 28, Part I of the Traffic Code, which Sec. 11:400 declares decriminalized: violations of the parking chapter, including Sec. 11:426, are civil infractions only, carrying no criminal penalty. Sec. 11:401(c) caps the maximum base penalty for any single parking infraction, including a curb loading zone violation, at fifty dollars unless a different fine is specified for that particular section; Sec. 11:426 itself specifies no other amount, so the fifty-dollar cap governs. The city police chief enforces parking laws inside the city limits, and the parish attorney represents the city-parish in contested infractions.