Unincorporated Riverside County has no general overnight street-parking ban. Vehicles may park overnight on county highways subject only to the 72-hour (three-day) limit in Ordinance 413, posted restricted zones, and snow-area restrictions inside the San Bernardino National Forest boundary.
There is no countywide ordinance prohibiting overnight parking on public streets in the unincorporated areas. Instead, County Ordinance 413, Section 1.3, sets a three-day (72-hour) maximum for any vehicle or trailer on a county highway, which a vehicle parked only overnight will not exceed. Overnight parking can still be restricted in specific places: Section 1.5 authorizes the Director of Transportation to create posted restricted-parking or no-stopping zones after an engineering study, and Section 1.11 allows temporary signs for special events or hazards. Section 1.15 prohibits parking or leaving a vehicle unattended on any state or county highway in a designated 'snow area' so as to interfere with snow-removal equipment; the snow area is defined as the unincorporated county within the San Bernardino National Forest, and violators may be towed under Vehicle Code Section 22651. Recreational vehicles face stricter overnight treatment under Section 1.18 (prohibited on residential-district county highways except a limited 48-hour, twice-monthly exception). For RVs and inoperable vehicles stored on private property, zoning Ordinance 348 and the abandoned-vehicle rules (Chapter 10.04) apply rather than the overnight street rules.
Overnight parking itself is not a violation, but exceeding 72 hours, parking in a posted zone, or blocking snow-removal equipment can result in citation, towing and storage at the owner's expense.
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