Elko County, NV Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

Title 8, Chapter 1 of the Elko County Code carries the county's stopping and parking rules, adopted by the Board of County Commissioners. Section 8-1-8(A) opens with a blanket rule: a person shall not stop, stand, or park a vehicle in the listed places, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with law or the directions of a Sheriff's office member authorized to direct traffic, or official traffic control devices.

The list begins with places a vehicle cannot sit at all: on a sidewalk, in front of a public or private driveway, within an intersection and on a crosswalk. The measured distances are fifteen feet from a fire hydrant where parallel parking is permitted, or twenty feet if angle parking is permitted and a local ordinance requires the greater distance; twenty feet from a crosswalk at an intersection; thirty feet on the approach to an official traffic-control signal at the side of a highway; fifty feet from the nearest rail of a railroad; and twenty feet from a fire station driveway entrance, or seventy five feet from the entrance on the opposite side of the highway. Item 14 adds a separate rule against parking within five feet of a public or private driveway, and item 15 covers any place where official traffic-control devices prohibit stopping, standing or parking. Items also bar parking on the highway side of an already parked vehicle, on a bridge or elevated structure, and beside a highway excavation or obstruction when it would obstruct traffic.

Subsection (B) forbids moving a vehicle not owned by the person into a prohibited area. Subsection (C) allows local authorities to post devices restricting parking where it is dangerous or would unduly interfere with traffic, and it is unlawful to park against those signs. Subsection (D) goes further inside the Spring Creek Subdivision: no one can stop, stand or park any vehicle, attended or unattended, on any highway or street right of way or on the paved, graveled or main-traveled part of it.

Section 8-1-14 separately makes it unlawful to park in a reserved handicapped space without a permit or plate.