Jacksonville, NC Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Section 25-122, part of Article V, Division 1's general parking rules, treats residential streets differently depending on whose vehicle is parked. A vehicle belonging to the owner, lessee or tenant of the premises, or to a visitor of that person, may sit on a residential street for up to seven days before it becomes an overtime-parking violation. Anyone else's vehicle, someone with no connection to the property, gets only twenty-four hours before the same violation attaches. The section places the burden of proof on the driver: if cited, the person must prove to the satisfaction of the court that they fit one of the protected categories (owner, lessee, tenant or visitor) rather than requiring the city to disprove it.

This duration limit traces to Code of 1968 § 15-32 and sits alongside § 25-123's separate ban on parking or storing commercial vehicles in residential areas. Unlike many Chapter 25 sections, § 25-122 does not carry its own misdemeanor clause; instead, enforcement runs through § 25-129, the catch-all provision covering "all parking violations, to include handicapped," which sets the fine by the city's fee schedule adopted annually by the city council rather than a fixed dollar figure in the code itself. A change of position within the same block does not restart the clock: § 25-125 defines that as one continuous parking period, so moving a car a few spaces down the same residential block does not reset the seven-day or twenty-four-hour window.