Bessemer, AL Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

Bessemer regulates recreational vehicles the same way it regulates commercial trailers, under Sec. " The section opens by naming the covered equipment directly: commercial vehicles and trailers "of all types, including travel, boat, camping and hauling" cannot be parked or stored on a residential lot except under the listed conditions. Subsection (a) limits a household to one qualifying commercial vehicle, capped at one and one-half tons rated capacity, and bars any vehicle used to haul explosives, gasoline or liquefied petroleum products outright, regardless of size.

Subsection (b) sets the dimensional and time limits that apply to travel trailers, boat trailers and campers alike: none may exceed 32 feet in length or eight feet in width, and none may sit in a driveway or yard for more than 48 hours unless it is pulled back behind the front yard building line, where longer-term storage is allowed. The same subsection separately bans living in a parked camping or travel trailer, even temporarily, anywhere in the city outside a mobile home park authorized under the zoning ordinance.

A companion rule at Sec. 8(10), in the general parking lot standards, caps a household to one travel or camping trailer on the premises and repeats that it cannot be occupied while stored. Together the two sections mean a resident can keep one RV or boat trailer in the driveway indefinitely if it sits behind the front building line and under the size caps, but a bigger rig, a second unit, or one parked in front of the house for more than two days is out of compliance.