Milpitas, CA Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

The City of Milpitas does not post a blanket overnight parking ban on residential streets, but it does cap how long any one vehicle can sit on a public street or alley. Milpitas Municipal Code § V-100-10.03 makes it unlawful for the owner, possessor, custodian or anyone controlling a vehicle to park it on any street or alley for more than a consecutive 72 hours. Once that 72-hour mark passes, any member of the Milpitas Police Department who is authorized by the Chief Police Officer may have the vehicle removed from the street or alley, following the removal and storage procedures in the California Vehicle Code.

The rule reaches cars, trucks, RVs, trailers and any other vehicle regardless of who owns it. Under § V-100-10.01, the stopping, standing and parking rules in this chapter of the traffic code apply at all times unless a specific time window is stated, except when a driver must stop to avoid a collision or follow a police officer's or traffic signal's direction. Importantly, the same section reclassifies every violation of this parking chapter as a civil matter rather than a crime: a person cited under the administrative citation procedure in Section 17 owes a civil penalty, not a criminal fine.

That civil framework backs the 72-hour rule, the school-zone no-parking signs, angle-parking requirements and the rest of Chapter 100's stopping and standing provisions. Milpitas Police issue the citations and arrange towing; there is no separate overnight curfew for parking beyond this consecutive-hours limit and any posted, location-specific restrictions elsewhere in the chapter.