Indianapolis has no blanket overnight street-parking ban for ordinary passenger vehicles, but Code Sec. 621-117 caps parking on any street at six hours without the abutting owner's written consent, which effectively limits long-term overnight parking. State law (IC 9-21-16-1) bars leaving a vehicle on the traveled part of a highway outside a business or residence district when it is practicable to park off the road.
No section of Chapter 621 imposes a citywide overnight prohibition on standard passenger vehicles parked legally at the curb; instead, the six-hour limit in Sec. 621-117 is the principal duration control, after which a vehicle left on a street, alley, or public place without the abutting owner's or tenant's written consent is unlawfully parked. Trucks and commercial vehicles with more than two axles face a tighter overnight rule: Sec. 621-118(a) bars them from any street or alley between 12:00 midnight and 6:00 a.m. for longer than one hour. Indiana Code 9-21-16-1, which preempts the general rule for highways, prohibits stopping, parking, or leaving a vehicle standing on the paved or main-traveled part of a highway outside a business or residence district when it is practicable to leave it off the highway, and IC 9-21-16-8 lets the state place signs restricting overnight parking on state-jurisdiction highways. Posted street-sweeping, snow-route, or time-limit signs may impose additional overnight or early-morning restrictions in specific areas.
A vehicle left beyond the six-hour limit or in a posted no-parking zone is subject to ticketing and towing through the Indianapolis ordinance violations bureau; on highways, a violation of the state parking chapter is a Class C infraction (IC 9-21-16-9).
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