Santa Fe, NM Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Section 12-6-6.5, titled 'All-Night Parking Prohibited,' bars parking a vehicle on any street in a non-residential area for longer than 30 minutes during the three-hour window between 2:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. every day of the week, with no exception for weekends or holidays written into the text. The only carve-out is for physicians answering emergency calls, a narrower exception than many cities allow; there is no general permit process to exempt a resident's own vehicle because the rule applies only to non-residential areas in the first place, leaving purely residential streets outside its reach.

The rule sits in the same subsection block as Section 12-6-6.4 (parking in alleys, which requires leaving at least 10 feet of clear width) and Section 12-6-6.6 (parking for display, sale, washing, greasing, or repair), showing it is one piece of the city's broader effort to keep commercial-area curbs open overnight for street sweeping, deliveries, and emergency access. Enforcement runs through the Santa Fe Police Department and parking enforcement officers, and under Section 12-9-4, a violation is treated as a civil parking violation rather than a criminal offense, with the Schedule B fine schedule setting the base amount and Section 12-9-4.4 doubling the fine if it is not paid within 15 calendar days of the citation.