Lacey, WA Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

The City of Lacey regulates recreational vehicles and boats on public ground in LMC 10.14.020(B). No person is allowed to park any recreational vehicle, motor home, mobile home, trailer, camper, vessel or boat on the improved or unimproved portion of any street, alley, public right-of-way, or publicly owned parking lot for more than four hours. The list is broad: a boat on a trailer, a bare utility trailer and a camper all count.

There are two exceptions. Such a vehicle can be parked temporarily for loading or unloading. Or the vehicle has been issued a permit under LMC 10.14.045, and the permit is affixed to the front window of the vehicle in a place clearly visible from the outside. LMC 10.14.045 gives the city manager or designee the authority to permit vehicles to park in excess of the time periods designated in the chapter, under policies and procedures the city manager develops. A permit that sits on the dashboard or is not visible from outside does not satisfy the exception as written.

Subsection C stops rotation of the vehicle around town. Parking a commercial or recreational vehicle in another location within the city, on the improved or unimproved portion of any street, alley, public right-of-way or publicly owned parking lot, within any twenty-four-hour period is a violation of the section. Subsection D exempts vehicles owned by the city, its agents, or assigns.

Subsection E addresses living-in-place hookups. In no event is a power cord, extension cord, garden hose, or other like device allowed to be run from any vehicle across the public right-of-way or sidewalk to a residential dwelling or like source. An RV parked at the curb cannot be plugged into the house across the sidewalk. This section governs public streets and lots; it does not itself regulate a vehicle stored on private property.