Salem, OR Parking Rules: Preferential Parking Districts (2026)

080 creates a permit-restricted parking category distinct from the City's general time-limited and metered zones: a carpool permit zone is reserved for vehicles displaying a City-issued carpool permit, and the ordinance's operative rule targets permit misuse rather than general public parking. It provides that no two carpool permits issued with the same permit number shall be parked in the same carpool permit zone at the same time, and that each vehicle having the same permit number shall be considered in violation of this section, meaning both vehicles, not just the second one to arrive, can be cited.

020(b). 115 separately makes it unlawful to copy, alter, or use an expired or forged parking permit of any kind, including a carpool permit, to misrepresent that a vehicle is authorized to park in a restricted zone. 005, covering time-limited or metered zones within RA, RS, or RM-zoned streets, is the closest analog to a neighborhood-preferential parking area, though the chapter as read here does not set out a separate residential-permit application process beyond that definition.