Allentown does not impose a blanket residential overnight on-street parking ban, but a vehicle parked in one place on a public street for more than 72 consecutive hours is treated as 'stored'/abandoned and is subject to ticketing, immobilization, and towing. Overnight enforcement otherwise follows posted street-cleaning windows, meter hours, and residential permit-parking zones.
There is no general citywide overnight curfew on on-street parking in Allentown. Instead, the key limit is the 72-hour rule: the Allentown Parking Authority enforces an ordinance under which any vehicle parked on a public street or highway in the city for more than 72 hours may be considered an abandoned vehicle and 'stored' means the parking of a vehicle in one place upon any street continuously for over 72 hours. Such vehicles may be ticketed, immobilized (booted), prepared for towing, and impounded if they remain unmoved for at least 72 hours. The 72-hour clock applies even to permit holders - a residential parking permit does not exempt the holder from the 72-hour ordinance. Overnight parking is also constrained by posted street-cleaning hours, metered-zone hours, and the boundaries of residential permit parking districts. Where a permit is not held, a motorist may not move and re-park on the same side of the street within the same block to avoid the posted time limit.
A vehicle left in one place over 72 hours is subject to ticketing, booting, towing, and impoundment as abandoned/stored. Permit holders remain subject to the 72-hour rule and to street-cleaning, loading-zone, five-minute-zone, and meter restrictions.
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