Bolingbrook, IL Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)
Key Facts
- Yard/grass storage
- Prohibited (driveway only)
- RV driveway time limit
- 48 hours per week
- Fine
- $50.00
- Covered vehicle limit
- 2 per property
- Amended
- Ord. No. 22-051, 8-23-2022
Summary
Bolingbrook Code § 50-44(a) bans storing trailers, campers, boats, and buses in any front, side, or rear yard or on grass in a residential district, except on a driveway. Section 50-44(b) caps RV storage on a front-yard or street-adjacent side-yard driveway at 48 hours per week.
(a)No automobiles, house trailers, camping trailers, boat trailers, camping buses, camper trucks, buses, trucks or other trailers or motor vehicles shall be stored or parked in any front, side or rear yard, or upon any grass or vegetation in any residential district. A vehicle shall be deemed to have been stored or parked when it is stationed, stopped, or standing anywhere within any such yard, except on a driveway.(b)No recreational vehicle, including, but not limited to, camping trailers, boat trailers, boats, camping buses, or camper trucks, shall be stored in a driveway in any front yard in a residential district or in any side yard in any residential district that is adjacent to the right-of-way line of a public street. A recreational vehicle shall be deemed to have been stored on a driveway in any such front or side yard when it has been parked there for more than 48 hours in any week.
Full Breakdown
Section 50-44(a) is a broad yard-storage ban: automobiles, house trailers, camping trailers, boat trailers, camping buses, camper trucks, buses, trucks, and other trailers or motor vehicles cannot be stored or parked in any front, side, or rear yard, or on grass or vegetation, in a residential district. A vehicle counts as stored the moment it is stationed, stopped, or standing anywhere in such a yard, with driveways carved out as the sole exception. Section 50-44(b) then narrows what a driveway exception actually permits for recreational vehicles specifically: camping trailers, boat trailers, boats, camping buses, and camper trucks cannot be stored on a driveway in a front yard, or in a side yard adjacent to a public street right-of-way, for more than 48 hours in any given week.
Parking for a weekend load-up or unload is fine; leaving the boat or camper parked there as a matter of course is not, once the 48-hour weekly mark is passed. Both provisions descend from Code 1973 § 17-1514, amended by Ordinance No. 85-046 in 1985 and Ordinance No. 22-051 in 2022. Section 50-44(d) adds a related but separate rule that unlicensed, expired-registration, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicles cannot sit outdoors in any yard at all, even under a car cover, with a two-cover-per-property cap where a cover is used.
Violations & Fines
The section 50-46 fine schedule sets $50.00 for storage of vehicles on private or public property under section 50-44, payable within ten days of the citation. A recreational vehicle parked on a front or qualifying side-yard driveway beyond the 48-hour weekly limit is cited under the same schedule.
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