Appleton, WI Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)
Key Facts
- Restricted hours
- 2:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m., nightly
- Base forfeiture
- $50, or $25 within 15 days
- Exception
- Police permission or PW construction permit
- Enforcement action
- Vehicle may be towed at owner's expense
- Appeal window
- 15 days for administrative review
Summary
Appleton bars parking any vehicle or recreational vehicle on a City street or alley between 2:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. without Police Department permission, or a Public Works permit for construction. Violators face a fifty-dollar forfeiture, cut to twenty-five dollars if paid within fifteen days, and a vehicle left overnight can be towed at the owner's expense.
No operator of any vehicle or recreational vehicle, as defined in Sec. 23-22, shall park the vehicle upon any street or alley between 2:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. without permission by the Police Department or in cases of construction a permit may be given by the Department of Public Works. Any vehicle or recreational vehicle, defined ... in Sec. 23-22, parked in violation of this section may be towed at the owner's expense.
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Full Breakdown
m. The Police Department can grant permission to park overnight, and the Department of Public Works may issue a permit when construction requires it. A vehicle or recreational vehicle parked in violation may be towed at the owner's expense. window, reduced to twenty-five dollars if paid within fifteen days of the ticket date. The Police Department's blanket authority to grant this permission is automatically suspended City-wide whenever the City declares a Class I, II or III snow emergency under § 19-94, so an overnight parking pass that normally works can stop applying the moment the City calls a snow emergency.
Disputes follow the same review path as other parking tickets: fifteen days to request administrative review with the City Parking Utility, then thirty days from the ticket, or ten days after that review, to seek judicial review.
Violations & Fines
A first overnight-parking ticket costs fifty dollars, reduced to twenty-five dollars if paid within fifteen days under § 19-90(e). The vehicle itself may also be towed and impounded at the owner's expense under § 19-93. Ignoring the ticket past the appeal window leaves it presumed uncontested and forwards the matter under the state's uniform nonmoving-violation procedure.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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