Sherman, TX Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Section 12.04.009(a) of the Sherman Code of Ordinances is the city's night parking limit. It makes it unlawful for any person continuously and habitually to cause or permit any truck, truck-trailer, or vehicle, recreation vehicle or recreation trailer to remain upon any of the public streets, alleys, or other public places for four hours or more between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. The section defines its own trigger words: continuously and habitually mean more than three nights within any seven-day period. The rule covers public streets, alleys and other public places, so it reaches beyond residential blocks.

Other sections in Article 12.04 apply to the same overnight stay. Under § 12.04.005, parking in a space reserved for another person, in an area where parking is prohibited, or in a time limit space longer than the marking or visible signs allow is unlawful, the registered owner is presumed to be the person who parked, and the vehicle can be immobilized and removed from all public property including roadways, rights-of-way and easements. Section 12.04.001 lets the City Council designate time limit areas and the days and hours each restriction applies, and the director of public services has them marked with signs or pavement and curb markings.

Section 12.04.002 makes it an offense to evade a parking time limit by moving the vehicle or destroying marks on it. Section 12.04.010 sets a two-hour limit in a described downtown area from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., with three-hour parking on listed streets. Parking in an alley within the fire limits is barred by § 12.04.007(b) except while loading or unloading merchandise or passengers.

Separately, § 12.04.009(b) bans semitruck-type trailers and cargo trucks from public streets in a residential neighborhood at any time, which is a different rule from the night limit and is not tied to the 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. window.