Sedgwick County, KS Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Sedgwick County has no separate municipal-style overnight-parking ordinance capping street parking to specific nighttime hours. A. 8-1102(a)(1): a vehicle left unattended on a public highway, or other public property open to public use, becomes subject to removal once it has sat for 48 hours, or immediately if it is interfering with highway operations before that. 'Public agency having jurisdiction,' for county roads, means Sedgwick County itself, acting through the sheriff's office or public works. Once the 48-hour mark passes, the statute lays out a notice-and-auction process before the county may sell the car: notice mailed to any known owner and lienholder, followed by newspaper publication once weekly for two consecutive weeks, and a ten-day window after the second publication for the owner to reclaim the vehicle by paying removal, storage and publication costs before it goes to public auction.

If the vehicle carries no registration plate and cannot be traced through the Division of Vehicles, the statute gives the county 30 days to request an ownership check before the mailed-notice clock starts. A separate but related county rule, Sec. A. 8-1102(a)(2) auction procedure for a nuisance motor vehicle abandoned on private property, distinct from the on-street 48-hour rule described here. A. 21-5808, and the 48-hour wait does not apply in that private-property scenario; removal can happen immediately at the property owner's request.