Peoria, AZ Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Peoria City Code Section 14-115(a) defines an "abandoned vehicle" as one subject to registration that has been lost, stolen, abandoned or otherwise unclaimed on a public highway, public property or elsewhere in the state, including private property. The section then sets the evidentiary trigger that functions as Peoria's practical on-street time limit: leaving a vehicle unattended for forty-eight hours within the right-of-way of a highway, road, street or other public thoroughfare is prima facie evidence of abandonment, while the threshold is seventy-two hours on other public or private property.

Once that prima facie showing exists, Section 14-120(a) authorizes an officer with reasonable grounds to remove or cause the removal of the vehicle from the street, highway or other public or private property. S. Title 28, Article 8, Chapter 9, which controls the removal procedure. S. Title 28 is not treated as abandoned under this chapter while it sits on the owner's own private property, per Section 14-119, so the forty-eight and seventy-two hour thresholds bite hardest on unregistered or plainly inoperable vehicles left in public view. These definitions were enacted by Ordinance No. 2014-18 on May 6, 2014.