Troy, MI Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)
Key Facts
- Vehicle covered
- Any house trailer used or intended as a dwelling
- Banned locations
- Public highway, street, alley, park or other public place
- Short-stop allowance
- Emergency or temporary stopping for not longer than one hour
- Who is liable
- Anyone who parks it or permits it to be parked
- General penalty
- Up to $500 fine, 90 days jail, or both (Ch. 1, § 1.13)
- Section
- Troy City Code Chapter 47, § 6.41
Summary
Troy prohibits parking a house trailer overnight on any public highway, street, alley, park or other public place in the city. The ban also reaches anyone who permits it. Only emergency or temporary stops of up to one hour are allowed on a street, and those stay subject to the street's own parking rules.
The following restrictions shall be applicable to house trailers. ... (1) No person shall park overnight or permit the parking overnight of any house trailer upon any public highway, street, alley, park or other public place within the City. ... (2) No person shall park or permit the parking of a house trailer for occupancy on any private property within the City except in any authorized trailer camp licensed under the provisions of MCL 125.1001 et. seq., Act 243, Public Acts of 1959, State of Michigan, as amended. ... (5) Emergency or temporary parking or stopping is permitted on any street, alley or highway for not longer than one hour subject to any other and further prohibitions, regulations or limitations imposed by the traffic and parking regulations for that street, alley or highway.
Full Breakdown
Chapter 47 of the Troy City Code, Section 6.41, defines a house trailer as any vehicle used or intended for use as a dwelling, whether it is self-propelling or towed. Subsection (1) then says no person shall park overnight, or permit the parking overnight of, any house trailer upon any public highway, street, alley, park or other public place within the City. The wording covers the driver and also the owner or anyone else who allows the trailer to sit there. The text sets no clock hours for "overnight", so the ban is written around the overnight stay itself and not a posted window.
Subsection (5) carves out one narrow allowance: emergency or temporary parking or stopping is permitted on any street, alley or highway for not longer than one hour, subject to any other and further prohibitions, regulations or limitations imposed by the traffic and parking regulations for that street, alley or highway. A breakdown or a short loading stop fits inside that hour. A stay that runs overnight does not.
Private property is handled next door in the same section. Subsection (2) bars parking a house trailer for occupancy on private property except in an authorized trailer camp licensed under MCL 125.1001 et seq. (Act 243 of 1959). City Council can approve an office-type trailer by resolution for twelve months, with a renewal option of up to six months, after a report from the Planning Director and the Director of Buildings and Inspection. The City Manager can approve temporary residential occupancy for a special event for not more than 10 days, but only on a site that is zoned other than one-family residential, has frontage on a major thoroughfare, is at least 5 acres, keeps the trailer out of a required setback and leaves fire lanes clear. Subsection (3) lets Council allow a mobile sales office at a new residential development for twelve months.
Subsection (4) covers storage of an unoccupied trailer: it must sit inside a completely enclosed building or behind the front face of the principal building, no closer than three feet to any side or rear lot line, and no living quarters can be kept in it.
Violations & Fines
Chapter 47 prints no penalty of its own in the section quoted, so the general penalty clause in Chapter 1, Section 1.13 applies. A person convicted of violating a Code provision faces a fine of not more than $500 plus costs of prosecution, imprisonment for not more than ninety days, or both. Each act of violation and every day on which a violation occurs counts as a separate offense, so a trailer left on a street for several nights can be charged night by night.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I leave a camper trailer on a Troy street overnight?
Does the ban apply to the owner if someone else parks the trailer?
Can a house trailer be parked at my home instead?
Is there a hour limit that defines overnight?
What is the penalty for a violation?
Sources & Official References
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