Southampton, NY Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Town Code § 312-51, 'Parking in residential districts,' bars parking vehicles on any street or highway that lies within a residential district on the Town of Southampton Zoning Map between 1:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m., prevailing time. Unlike Article V's hamlet-by-hamlet lists of specific banned segments, § 312-51 applies townwide to every street mapped as residential outside the incorporated villages, making it the Town's general overnight on-street parking rule; the Zoning Map that defines which streets qualify is kept on file with the Town Clerk.

The section sits in Article IX, Miscellaneous Parking, alongside § 312-50's diagonal-parking rules, and its overnight window is separate from the seasonal, hours-limited permit areas the Town designates under Article X and from the specific municipal-lot curfews (3:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m.) that Article XII sets for lots such as the Bridgehampton Railroad Station and Bridgehampton South-West lots under §§ 312-61 and 312-62. Because § 312-51 falls within Article IX, a violation is treated as a parking infraction rather than a traffic infraction, and enforcement falls to Southampton Town Police and the Department of Public Safety's Ordinance Enforcement officers, who patrol residential streets overnight for vehicles left parked between the 1:00 a.m. cutoff and the 6:00 a.m. lift.

The rule applies regardless of whether a specific street also appears on one of the Article V no-parking lists, so a vehicle can be cited under § 312-51 even on a residential street that carries no other daytime parking restriction.