Flint, MI Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Section 28-86 is a single sentence: no person shall park a vehicle, recreational vehicle and/or any camping equipment, as defined in § 50-105, on any street for a period of time longer than twenty-four (24) hours. Nothing in the section limits it to night hours, to a district, or to a season, and it prints no permit or exemption. The clock is the point: a vehicle left in one spot on a street past twenty-four (24) hours is in violation.

Three definitions carry the rule. Chapter 28 defines PARK or PARKING as the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers, so an occupied vehicle still counts. A STREET or HIGHWAY is the entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained, when any part is open to public vehicular travel. And § 50-105(b) lists what counts as recreation and camping equipment: folding tent trailers, motor homes, pickup campers, travel trailers, and watercraft and watercraft trailers.

The street cap is separate from the rules for private lots. Section 50-105(c) allows those same units on residential property, but without fixed connections to electricity, water, gas or sanitary sewer, never for living or housekeeping purposes, and stored to the rear of the front building line when outside a garage. Section 50-105(d) says emergency or temporary stopping, standing or parking of a trailer is permitted on any street, alley or highway subject to the traffic and parking regulations for that street.

Downtown has its own shorter clock. Under § 28-110.1(b), no vehicle can be parked or stationary in the downtown district for more than two (2) continuous hours between 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., except Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, and the DDA enforces the parking system there. City residents parking within 100 feet of the address on their driver's license, voter's registration or State of Michigan identification card are excused from that 2 and 3 hour restriction, but that exemption is written for those restrictions and not for the twenty-four (24) hour cap in § 28-86.