Clearwater, FL Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

046 is the mechanism Clearwater uses to restrict overnight and long-duration on-street parking: rather than a single citywide overnight curfew, the city posts signs block by block or lot by lot stating how long a vehicle may remain parked, and subsection (1) makes it unlawful for anyone to park longer than that posted time. Subsection (2) closes the obvious workaround: moving a vehicle from one point directly to another point within the same block or the same public parking lot still counts as a continuation of the same parking period, so simply repositioning a car every few hours does not restart the allowed time.

04 and was last amended by Ordinance No. 7490-05 in 2005. 061, and enforcement runs through the same traffic-court citation process used for other parking offenses: officers, parking enforcement specialists, and certified code enforcement inspectors affix a ticket giving the owner 15 calendar days to pay or request a hearing before the city's designated parking violation processing office. Because the restriction only applies where a sign has actually been posted, a driver should check for posted time limits before assuming a residential block allows unlimited overnight parking; commercial and downtown blocks near meters are the ones most commonly signed for shorter overnight limits.