Manteca, CA Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Section 10.44.050, titled Storage of vehicles on street prohibited, applies to any person who owns or has possession, custody or control of a vehicle. That covers the registered owner, and it also covers a driver, tenant or friend who has the vehicle in hand. The vehicle cannot be parked upon any street or alley for more than a consecutive period of seventy-two hours. The section names no night hours, so it is a storage limit rather than a rule keyed to a particular evening. Section 10.44.010(C) sets the reach of the chapter: it applies to all streets, roads, alleys and alley vehicle parking lots owned, leased or maintained by the city.

Section 10.44.010(B) says a time limit in the chapter does not relieve anyone of the duty to observe more restrictive provisions of the Vehicle Code or city ordinances limiting parking in specified places or at specified times. A car that has been parked for fewer than seventy-two hours can therefore still be cited under a sign, curb marking or other rule.

Several of those other rules bite overnight. Under § 10.44.230, where authorized signs or curb markings are in place, no operator can stop, stand or park between four a.m. and five a.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays, other than to load or unload passengers or material. Under § 10.44.040(G), parking is barred on a street needed for cleaning, repair, construction or underground utility installation, provided signs giving notice are erected or placed at least twenty-four hours before the effective time. Section 10.44.130 lets the city traffic engineer post temporary emergency signs that prohibit operating, parking or standing on designated streets and alleys while they stand. The traffic engineer maintains the signs and paint that give these restrictions their force under § 10.44.030.

Section 10.08.120(A) lets any regularly employed and salaried officer of the police department remove or cause to be removed any vehicle that has been parked or left standing upon a street or highway for seventy-two or more consecutive hours. Section 10.44.240 separately lets the city administrator restrict parking on city property by signs.