Unincorporated Santa Cruz County has no blanket overnight ban on ordinary cars on residential streets, but SCCC 9.70.620 bans overnight RV/mobile-home street parking, SCCC 9.36.080 bans overnight parking in county lots, and several beach areas (SCCC 9.36.050) close to parking from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.
There is no countywide ordinance banning overnight street parking of a standard passenger car in unincorporated Santa Cruz County; instead the 72-hour limit of SCCC 9.70.610 governs how long any vehicle may sit. Overnight rules are targeted. SCCC 9.70.620 makes it unlawful to park a mobile home or recreational vehicle overnight on any highway, street, or alley except for emergencies (with the 24-hour own-residence and 72-hour permitted host-property exceptions). SCCC 9.36.080 makes it unlawful to park a vehicle overnight, or camp in it overnight, in any off-street parking area owned, operated by, or leased to the County for a County operation other than parks, and bars parking in any County park lot after posted closing hours. SCCC 9.36.050 restricts North Coast Beach parking areas and certain streets, such as Oceanview Drive and Hillview Way, where parking is barred between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. where signs so indicate. Some of those streets are designated tow-away zones under SCCC 9.36.040.
Overnight violations in county lots/parks and posted night zones are citable; parking violations carry a civil penalty under CVC 40200 et seq. (SCCC 9.36.100). Posted tow-away zones allow removal at the owner's cost (SCCC 9.36.040).
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