Inglewood, CA Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Vehicle Code § 22651 lists every circumstance under which a peace officer, or a regularly employed and salaried city employee who directs traffic or enforces parking, may remove a vehicle. Subdivision (n) is the general-purpose overnight and no-parking authority: it applies whenever a vehicle is parked or left standing where local authorities, by resolution or ordinance, have prohibited parking and authorized removal. The statute conditions that power on notice, requiring posted signs before a tow, except in the narrower mobile-billboard and advertising-sign scenarios carved out separately in subdivisions (v) and (w).

Inglewood relies on subdivision (n) directly. Municipal Code § 3-80, governing tow-away enforcement in the City's Permit Parking Districts, states that the City may cause a vehicle to be removed "as authorized by Vehicle Code Section 22651(n)," with the registered owner responsible for impoundment and storage fees, and requires the Public Works Director to post removal-notice signs before any tow proceeds. The same state authority underlies Inglewood's separate 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. residential parking restriction on commercial and oversized vehicles at § 3-65.2, though that specific ban is separately enforceable without signage under Vehicle Code § 22507.5.

Because § 22651 is a removal-authority statute rather than a time-limit statute, it does not itself set an overnight curfew; each city adopts its own hours and posts its own signs. Inglewood's ordinances built on this authority currently run through its Permit Parking Districts, enforced 24/7 or in part depending on the district, and its fixed 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. oversized-vehicle window.