Mount Vernon, NY Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

City of Mount Vernon Code § 256-14 provides that no vehicle other than one duly licensed as a commercial vehicle may be parked or stopped in any area the City has designated by official signs as a loading zone, except in an emergency, at the direction of a police officer, or as otherwise allowed by the specific wording of the posted sign. The rule works alongside the chapter's general definitions in § 256-2 and § 256-15's separate ban on obstructing another vehicle's lawful movement. Because the loading-zone restriction depends on official signage, its exact hours and location vary block by block, but the underlying rule, that private passenger vehicles cannot occupy a signed loading zone, applies uniformly across the City.

A commercial vehicle without proper licensing, or any private vehicle, parked in a marked loading zone outside of the sign's stated exceptions is in violation regardless of how briefly it is stopped, since the section contains no minimum-duration requirement before the restriction applies.