Framingham, MA Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)
Key Facts
- Base time limit
- 15 minutes
- Loading/unloading exception
- Up to 30 minutes
- Delivery blackout 1
- 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
- Delivery blackout 2
- 4:40 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
- Exempt days
- Sundays and holidays
- Governing section
- City Code § 550-19
Summary
In the City of Framingham, a vehicle may not park in a designated service zone for more than 15 minutes under City Code § 550-19, except while actively loading or unloading, which is capped at 30 minutes. Delivery service in listed downtown service zones is also barred at midday and late afternoon, Sundays and holidays excepted.
§ 550-19. Service zones. ... A. No person shall park a vehicle upon any street in any service zone for a period of time longer than 15 minutes except while actually engaged in loading or unloading, provided that such loading does not exceed a period of time longer than 1/2 hour. The provisions of this section notwithstanding, delivery service in the following areas shall be prohibited between the hours of 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m. and between the hours of 4:40 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., Sundays and holidays excepted ... ... B. The above-described areas are hereby declared to be service zones.
Full Breakdown
Framingham's Traffic Rules and Orders create 'service zones,' portions of the roadway set aside for commercial and transient vehicular traffic, and § 550-19 caps ordinary parking in one at 15 minutes. A vehicle actually engaged in loading or unloading may stay longer, but only up to 30 minutes total, after which the loading exception no longer applies and the base service zone limit resumes. The same section layers a second restriction on top of the time limit: in the specific service zones the City lists in § 550-19A, delivery vehicles may not load or unload at all between 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m., or between 4:40 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., a pair of midday and late-afternoon blackout windows aimed at keeping those streets clear during the busiest foot-traffic and commuter periods.
Sundays and legal holidays are excepted from the delivery blackout entirely. Section 550-19B then formally declares those listed areas to be service zones for purposes of the chapter, tying the whole scheme, the 15-minute base limit, the 30-minute loading exception, and the two delivery blackout windows, back to a defined, enforceable zone rather than leaving 'service zone' undefined. Violations of the service zone parking limit are penalized like other Chapter 550 parking violations, and Framingham Police officers write and enforce the tickets on the ground.
Violations & Fines
Overstaying the 15-minute service zone limit, or the 30-minute loading and unloading exception, is a parking violation enforceable by the Framingham Police Department under Chapter 550. Making a delivery in a listed service zone during the noon-to-1 p.m. or 4:40-to-5:30 p.m. blackout windows set by § 550-19A is a separate violation of the same section, regardless of how briefly the vehicle is stopped.
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