Lafayette, LA Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Section 86-137 is a single sentence: no person shall park a vehicle upon a street for a period of time longer than 24 consecutive hours. It doesn't single out overnight hours specifically, instead it caps continuous street parking at a full day regardless of when the clock starts, so a car left in the same spot from Monday morning through Tuesday morning is in violation the moment it crosses the 24-hour mark, whether or not it was ever moved overnight. The rule sits in Article IX, Division 1 ('Generally') alongside the other stopping-and-parking prohibitions, and section 86-130 clarifies that time-limit rules like this one don't excuse a driver from also observing any more restrictive posted limit, a street sign with a shorter posted limit still controls even though the citywide 24-hour cap exists as a backstop.

Violations are civil, not criminal: they are processed as a parking notice of civil violation under Article VIII, and an owner who fails to respond within 15 days faces an additional penalty equal to the original fine, plus potential immobilization by boot or towing. 00 under the schedule in section 86-174(15), with the city-parish council setting the specific amount by resolution within that range.