No countywide overnight-parking ban applies in St. Joseph County, but South Bend and Mishawaka limit extended on-street parking, and any snow emergency triggers odd/even rules that override normal overnight parking.
Parking overnight in your own driveway is unrestricted in St. Joseph County. On public streets, rules are municipal: South Bend and Mishawaka prohibit leaving a vehicle parked in the same on-street spot beyond a set number of hours or days, which works as an anti-storage rule rather than a blanket overnight ban. During a declared snow emergency, the city's odd/even snow-parking rules take priority over ordinary overnight parking, and snow routes bar street parking altogether. A vehicle left too long on a street can be tagged and towed as abandoned.
Leaving a vehicle parked on a city street past the allowed hours can bring a ticket, and a vehicle left long enough to be deemed abandoned is towed and stored at the owner's expense.
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