Tuscaloosa, AL Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

City Code Sec. 22-85(a) targets the public right-of-way rather than private yards: it makes it unlawful for any person to park a motor vehicle, boat, recreational vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer upon any street, alley, or public way of the city for the purpose of storage, displaying the vehicle for sale, or washing, servicing, or repairing it, with a narrow carve-out for repairs necessitated by an emergency. The rule, part of the original 1991 traffic code (Ord. No. 3327), is aimed at keeping boats, campers, and trailers from becoming semi-permanent fixtures on city streets, whether an owner is storing an RV between camping trips, listing a boat for sale roadside, or turning a stretch of curb into an informal repair bay.

It is paired with the separate overnight-occupancy ban in subsection (b) and with Sec. 22-86, which bars businesses that sell, lease, or repair vehicles from using any street or alley to store inventory awaiting sale or repair, closing off the same loophole for commercial operators. The zoning ordinance defines a recreational vehicle at Sec. 25-2 (travel trailers, camping trailers, truck campers, and motor homes), but the parking prohibition itself lives in Chapter 22, Article IV, governing stopping, standing, and parking generally, and applies only to street and public-way parking, not to parking on a homeowner's own driveway or yard.