Marion, OH Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

The Marion rule is a duration cap, not a clock-time ban. Division (A) of § 351.13 says no person shall park a motor vehicle on the streets or highways of the municipality in excess of 72 consecutive hours. Division (B) keeps every other parking restriction in force: nothing in the section is to be interpreted to permit parking of motor vehicles where prohibited or to relax the restrictions in the city's ordinances or the statutes of the state. Division (C) gives police the remedy: when an officer finds a vehicle parked in violation, the officer can provide for its removal to the nearest garage or other place of safety.

A separate impound provision, § 303.08(A)(2), lists a vehicle left on public property for more than 72 hours without the consent of the municipality among the circumstances in which police can remove and impound it. The only nighttime window printed in Chapter 351 is § 351.15, which bars school buses, tractors, trucks of more than one ton capacity, buses, trailers, semitrailers, pole trailers and moving vans from streets in the residential districts between one-half hour after sunset and one-half hour before sunrise. A passenger car is not in that list.

Under § 351.02, the registered owner is exposed to a prima-facie case: testimony that a vehicle bearing a certain license plate was parked unlawfully, plus the Ohio Registrar of Motor Vehicles record showing the plate was issued to the defendant, is prima-facie evidence that the defendant parked it.