Lowell Code of Ordinances sec. 266-73.1 prohibits parking any recreational vehicle, auto home, mobile home, boat trailer, semitrailer or combined vehicle-and-trailer on any City street between 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. on any day, and at any time on Sunday, except during active loading or unloading.
Section 266-73.1 ('Parking prohibited during certain hours: Commercial Vehicles, etc.') bars overnight on-street parking of recreational vehicles, boat trailers, auto homes, mobile homes, semitrailers, trailers, and combined vehicle-and-trailer rigs (along with commercial, transporter, repair and dealer plate vehicles) from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. daily and all day Sunday on any street, way, highway, road or parkway under City control. The only exceptions are active loading/unloading, vehicles engaged in snow plowing or emergency services, and overnight parking of vehicles doing permitted repairs/maintenance/improvements where the City has issued a valid permit. Note that section 266-36 separately keeps recreational vehicles exempt from the heavy-truck street restrictions, so the controlling overnight RV/trailer/boat rule is 266-73.1. Massachusetts has no statewide RV-storage parking ban, so this local ordinance is the operative rule.
Subject to ticketing and towing under sec. 266-50; the Schedule of Basic Parking Fines (sec. 266-132) sets a $250 fine for an illegally parked residential commercial vehicle (violation code 34), which the ordinance applies to the vehicles in 266-73.1.
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