In unincorporated Polk County, you may not park or store a vehicle with a payload capacity over 2 tons on any public right-of-way, except while loading, unloading, or harvesting agricultural products. Large commercial vehicles are also barred from residential lots.
Polk County Code Sec. 10.3-18(3) prohibits parking or storing a vehicle with payload capacity exceeding two tons on rights-of-way in unincorporated Polk County. 'Right-of-way' is defined broadly to include streets, roadways, shoulders, berms, medians, sidewalks, bike paths, ditches, curbs and gutters. Exceptions cover active loading/unloading, agricultural harvest, and emergency, utility, government and law-enforcement vehicles on duty. On private residential lots, oversized commercial vehicles (heavy machinery, dump trucks, tractor-trailers, 3+ axle vehicles) are governed by LDC Sec. 216 and generally prohibited without an exemption or special exception.
Sec. 10.3-21 escalating penalties apply on the right-of-way: warning, then $100, $250, and $500. On private lots, Code Enforcement pursues LDC Sec. 216 violations.
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