Outagamie County, WI Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Sec. 36-63 of the Outagamie County Code is a property rule, not a road rule. It covers "all of the area included within the surrounding courthouse parking lots," which means the lots serving the county courthouse and justice center. It does not reach public roads generally.

Within those lots, overnight parking is prohibited by default. The route around the prohibition is a county permit. The section puts a condition on the permit itself: it "shall contain the date of expiration thereof." An Outagamie County overnight permit is therefore time limited by design, and a paper with no expiration date does not match what the section describes. Once the date on the permit passes, the vehicle is back under the general prohibition.

The second sentence of the section creates a standing exception for staff. Parking in all lots is authorized for employees working from 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. That wording matters in two ways. It reaches all lots, so night-shift employees are not confined to one designated area. And it is tied to working that shift, so it does not read as a general privilege for any employee to leave a car at the courthouse overnight.

The section does not define which hours count as "overnight." The only clock times it names are the 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. employee shift, and those describe who is exempt, not when the ban starts and stops.

The history note traces the provision to § 7.02(4) of the 1992 Code and lists three ordinances: Ord. No. E-1992-1993, dated 10-13-1992, Ord. No. L-2002-2003, dated 11-19-2002, and Ord. No. L-2006-2007, dated 12-12-2006.