Hinds County, MS Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

Section 418 of the Hinds County Zoning Ordinance defines major recreational equipment broadly: boats and boat trailers, travel trailers, pickup campers or coaches designed to mount on a vehicle, motorized dwellings, tent trailers, and the cases or boxes used to haul them. On a residential lot, that equipment can only be parked or stored within the setbacks required for that specific zoning district, meaning it cannot sit in open yard space outside those district setback lines the way it could on unrestricted agricultural land. The only relief from that placement rule is a 24-hour window: the equipment can be parked anywhere on the residential premises, setback or not, strictly for loading or unloading, after which it has to move back within the district's setback area.

Section 418 also forbids using any of this equipment for living, sleeping, or housekeeping purposes anywhere it is parked or stored on a residential lot, or in any other location not approved for that use, closing off the option of treating a parked camper or motorhome as a guest house or overflow living space. Because the setback figures themselves come from the Table of District Regulations in Article XX and vary by district (R-1A, R-1B, R-1C, R-2, R-3 and R-4 each carry their own minimums), a resident has to check that table for the applicable district before assuming a particular spot on the lot qualifies.