Billings, MT Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

Sec. 24-401 of the Billings city code works as a list of forbidden places, not a schedule of hours. It names stopping, standing and parking together, so a short stop in a listed place is treated the same as leaving the vehicle there. The section excuses a stop that is necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic and a stop made in compliance with law.

Item (1) protects driveways. No vehicle may sit within three (3) feet of, or in front of, a public or private driveway or any curb cut. The text draws no line between your own driveway and a neighbor's, so the 3 foot buffer applies at the curb in front of your own Billings home. Curb cuts are named separately from driveways, so the 3 foot rule applies at any curb cut.

Item (3) bars stopping within the traveled portion of a street. Item (6) bars parking on a boulevard owned by the city. Sec. 24-401 also prohibits parking in an alley without a loading permit and parking on a front or side yard that lacks a paved surface.

Sec. 24-402 adds rules about how a vehicle is left on the street. A parked vehicle must not leave less than 10 feet of roadway open for traffic. The same section bans parking a vehicle mainly to display it for sale, to wash or repair it, or to store it. Read with the 3 foot driveway buffer in Sec. 24-401, a Billings driver has to check both the distance to the nearest curb cut and the width of roadway left open beside the vehicle.

Sec. 24-403 treats curb paint as the notice. A curb painted yellow under that section is a no-parking zone regardless of signage, so a yellow curb in Billings counts even where no sign is posted.