Longview, TX Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)
Key Facts
- Restricted hours
- Sundown to sunup
- What's banned
- Habitual overnight storage on paved streets
- Exception
- Occasional overnight parking of passenger cars
- Exception
- Disabled vehicles with flares/signals
- Governing code
- Longview Code of Ordinances Ch. 97
Summary
Longview prohibits habitually parking or storing vehicles on paved streets overnight, from sundown to sunup, under the city's traffic code.
Overnight parking for storage on any paved street is hereby prohibited. "Overnight parking for storage" is hereby defined as the habitual parking or storing of cars, trucks, tractors or other vehicles on paved streets during the hours from sundown to sunup, except temporarily disabled vehicles which are protected by flares or other approved signal devices. It is not the intention of this section to prohibit or interfere with passenger cars temporarily parked at night, where such parking is not done regularly and during the entire night.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: June 2026: This code is current through Ordinances 4635 passed 06.25.26).
Full Breakdown
Longview's code makes overnight parking for storage on any paved street unlawful. The city defines that as the habitual parking or storing of cars, trucks, tractors or other vehicles on paved streets between sundown and sunup, with an exception for temporarily disabled vehicles marked with flares or approved signal devices. The section explicitly does not reach a passenger car parked outside occasionally overnight: the ban targets regular, all-night use of the street as storage, not an occasional overnight park.
Violations & Fines
Fine up to $500 per Sec. 1-4's general penalty (no specific fine is set in Sec. 97-123); each day of a continuing violation is a separate offense, and police may impound illegally parked vehicles under Sec. 97-127.
Frequently Asked Questions
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