Mobile, AL Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)
Key Facts
- Authority
- City traffic engineer
- Curb uses covered
- Bus, taxicab stands
- Enforcement section
- Sec. 61-317
- Governing section
- Sec. 61-315
Summary
Mobile's traffic engineer decides where buses, taxis, and other passenger carriers may stop under Sec. 61-315, marking bus stops, bus stands, and taxicab stands with signs, and Sec. 61-317 makes it a citable offense for any other vehicle to occupy those designated curb spaces.
The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized and required to establish bus stops, bus stands, taxicab stands and stands for other passenger common carrier vehicles on such public streets in such places and in such number as he shall determine to be of the greatest benefit and convenience to the public, and every such bus stop, bus stand, taxicab stand or other stand shall be designated by appropriate signs.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 67).
Full Breakdown
Mobile City Code § 61-315 gives the city traffic engineer authority to establish bus stops, bus stands, taxicab stands, and stands for other passenger common-carrier vehicles at whatever public-street locations and in whatever number best serve public convenience, with every stand marked by appropriate signs. A backing enforcement rule, Sec. 61-317, reserves those curb spaces: no vehicle other than a bus may stop in a bus stop, and no vehicle other than a taxicab may stop in a taxicab stand, except for a passenger vehicle briefly loading or unloading riders when it won't interfere with a waiting bus or taxi.
Violations & Fines
Parking a private vehicle in a designated bus stop or taxicab stand, except to briefly drop off or pick up passengers, violates Sec. 61-317.
Frequently Asked Questions
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