Lafayette, IN Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Section 7.06.110(A), in Chapter 7.06 Stopping, Standing and Parking, is Lafayette's overnight parking restriction for heavy vehicles. It makes it unlawful for the owner, operator or driver of any commercial vehicle or truck with more than two axles to park it, or permit it to be parked or to stand, upon any street or alley in the city between the hours of twelve midnight and six a.m. for longer than one hour. Unlike the daytime residential four-hour cap in subsection B, the overnight rule applies citywide to any street or alley, not only residential districts, and it carries no moving, delivery or service-call exception in its own text.

Subsection C's definition of "commercial vehicle," which excludes municipal, government, public-utility and emergency vehicles, governs which trucks the overnight limit reaches. A vehicle left in place past the one-hour overnight window is subject to the Chapter 7.06 catch-all fine at § 7.06.990(A)(8): $50.00 for each violation, rising to $100.00 if unpaid after thirty days and $150.00 after sixty days. The Lafayette Police Department and Parking Commission enforcement staff issue the citations, and a cited owner may appeal to Parking Operations within fourteen days.