Springfield, OH Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Springfield Codified Ordinances § 351.09(a), enacted by Ordinance 76-21 on January 27, 1976, provides that the operator of a vehicle shall not park it on any of the public streets or alleys in the city for a longer period than forty-eight hours. The section does not distinguish day from night; instead it measures a continuous forty-eight-hour clock from when the vehicle is first parked in a given spot, so a car left on a residential street through consecutive nights without being moved is the classic violation the Springfield Police Division enforces, often after a neighbor complaint or a routine patrol chalk-check.

This differs from the separate junk-vehicle rules in Chapter 357, which apply regardless of how recently the vehicle moved if it is abandoned, wrecked or inoperable; § 351.09 instead governs any vehicle, operable or not, that simply overstays the same curb space. The forty-eight-hour cap also interacts with § 351.16's seventy-two-hour rule for inoperable vehicles left in the open on private property, which is a distinct, longer clock for a narrower category of vehicle and property type.