Texas City, TX Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

Section 72.12 of the Texas City Code of Ordinances is a flat prohibition. It is unlawful for any person to park any non-motor vehicle (including, but not limited to, boats and trailers) on the streets, alleys or other public ways of the city. The parenthetical is open-ended, so boats and trailers are the named examples rather than the full list. The section prints no time allowance, no permit path and no exception for loading a boat or hitching a trailer, so parking on the public way is itself the offense. Ord. 93-37, passed 7-7-1993, created the rule and Ord. 07-20, passed 5-2-2007, amended it.

Section 72.12 works alongside § 72.11, which bars any vehicle, trailer or combination thereof over 25 feet in length or over 10,000 pounds in manufacturer gross vehicle weight from public ways. A trailer is therefore reached by § 72.12 at any size and by § 72.11 once it crosses those figures.

Private property is answered by § 72.13, adopted as Ord. 13-08 on 5-1-2013. It applies to residential districts, including residential uses and all residential areas. Under § 72.13(A), no vehicle, as defined by Tex. Transportation Code Ch. 541, Subch. C, § 541.201, shall be parked or stored between the residential structure and the street frontage unless it is parked on an improved driveway. An improved driveway is made of concrete, asphalt, pavers or other material approved by the City's Building Official, must originate at the public roadway, and must form a continual surface sufficient to support the entire width, length and weight of the vehicle. Section 72.13(B) prohibits parking off the improved driveway in the front yard area, which includes the side yard of corner and irregular shaped lots.

Because § 72.13 uses the defined term vehicle, read that Transportation Code definition alongside the local text when a boat or trailer is stored on a residential lot. On enforcement, the Chief of Police can order a vehicle left in violation of a city ordinance removed and stored under § 72.02, and § 72.01 lets a prosecution rely on registered ownership as a prima facie presumption of who parked the vehicle.