Elyria, OH Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Section 351.13 is the Elyria Traffic Code's overnight on-street parking rule, an ordinance of the Elyria City Council dating to Ordinance 4851, passed 6-17-57. It applies to the City of Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, and it is a posted-street rule: the restriction attaches to those streets where such parking constitutes a hazard to traffic and when signs have been erected giving notice of it.

The limit is four consecutive hours inside an overnight window that runs from 10:00 p.m. on one day to 6:00 a.m. of the succeeding day. Physicians on emergency calls are the only exception the section prints.

Other sections reach overnight parking from different angles. Section 351.16 bars any commercial vehicle weighing more than 5000 pounds from parking on City streets between 2:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. Section 303.08(a)(2) lets police remove and impound a vehicle left on a public street or the right-of-way of a road or highway for 48 consecutive hours or longer without notification to the Police Chief of the reasons for leaving it there. Section 351.03(a)(17) separately bars parking in excess of the maximum time limited by signs. Section 351.17 lets the Mayor require removal of vehicles from affected streets during an actual or threatened local emergency such as flood or excessive snowfall, with the owner responsible to the towing company for the cost of removal.