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

30(2) gives the county two overlapping tools for limiting how long a vehicle can sit on county property. Subsection (a) lets the county post signs along any county highway or in a county park lot setting a specific time limit; once posted, leaving a vehicle beyond that period violates the ordinance. Subsection (b) sets a blanket 24-hour cap that applies whether or not the location is signed: no owner or operator may park or leave a vehicle standing longer than 24 hours in any one place within the right-of-way of a public highway in the county, or longer than 24 hours in a designated county park parking area.

40's separate abandoned-vehicle standard, under which any vehicle left unattended without the property owner's permission for more than 48 hours is deemed abandoned and becomes a public nuisance subject to impoundment. 30 well before it reaches the 48-hour abandonment threshold. As with the rest of Chapter 7, this limit governs county trunk highways and county park lots; it does not apply on streets inside the City of Kenosha or the villages of Pleasant Prairie, Somers, Twin Lakes, Paddock Lake, and Silver Lake, each of which sets its own overnight or long-term parking rules.