Salt Lake County, UT Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Code §11.20.135 reads: "No person owning, possessing, controlling or having custody of a vehicle shall permit it to remain standing upon any county street or alley for a consecutive period of more than twenty-four hours." The section reaches further than the registered owner: anyone who possesses, controls or has custody of the vehicle, a driver borrowing a car or a business fleet manager, can be held responsible for letting it sit. There's no daytime/overnight split or specific curfew hour; the twenty-four-hour clock runs continuously from whenever the vehicle was first left in place, year-round, independent of the seasonal snow ban in §11.20.130 that separately restricts parking November through April.

A violation is a $150.00 civil penalty under the schedule in §11.20.170(B), the same amount charged for the fifteen no-parking locations in §11.20.050. Registered owners are strictly liable for the vehicle's unauthorized use under §11.20.150 regardless of who actually left it standing, and a Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office deputy who finds a vehicle over the twenty-four-hour limit may move or have it towed under §11.20.160. The owner has ten business days after receiving a written notice of unauthorized use, either affixed to the vehicle or delivered personally, to pay the $150.00 or request an administrative hearing under Chapter 1.16; missing that window waives the right to a hearing and to court appeal, and an unpaid penalty grows by a twenty-five percent late fee after thirty days.