Newark, OH Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Section 454.10 of the Newark Code of Ordinances is a short rule with a hard number. Commercial trucks may park in the parking zones to load or unload merchandise for a period not exceeding thirty minutes, and the section repeats the limit as a prohibition: no commercial truck or delivery vehicle shall be parked in such zones longer than thirty minutes. The rule applies to the parking zones that the Service Director establishes under Section 454.01 on streets selected by the Newark City Council, where the Director fixes the hours each zone is used and posts signs nearby.

That thirty-minute allowance sits against the ordinary zone limits in the same chapter. Section 454.02 sets a two-hour limit in parking zones between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. and bars parking from 12:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. without a pass, so a delivery driver who stays beyond the thirty minutes is not rescued by the longer limit applying to passenger cars. Section 454.06 requires every vehicle to sit entirely within the lines or markings of its space.

Other chapter rules shape where loading is lawful. Section 452.04(a) allows a vehicle that cannot reach within 12 inches of the right-hand curb to stop as close as possible, but only for the time necessary to discharge and receive passengers or to load or unload merchandise. Section 452.035(c) exempts vehicles whose purpose is loading or unloading cargo from the four-hour limit on commercial trucks in residence districts. Loading is not an exception to the prohibited places in Section 452.03: its introduction excuses only a driver avoiding conflict with other traffic, complying with the traffic title, or obeying a police officer or traffic-control device. A truck therefore cannot unload in front of a driveway, within ten feet of a hydrant, or on a crosswalk. Under Section 454.09(i), no person shall park when directed otherwise by a police officer or firefighter or when posted signs prohibit it.