Jacksonville, NC Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

Section 25-113 sets the general rule for Article V, Division 1: a vehicle may not stop in a Jacksonville street at all except to park under the chapter's parking rules, unless the stop is forced by an approaching fire truck, a funeral procession with the right-of-way, a stopped public conveyance, lowering railway gates, a countermanding traffic signal, a passing vehicle or pedestrian, or another emergency, and even then the driver must avoid blocking a footway, pedestrian aisle, safety zone, crossing or intersection if at all possible.

Two companion sections in the same article target specific hazards named in local complaints. Section 25-118 bans parking with the vehicle's left side to the curb in the business district, the classic "wrong-way" parking violation where a driver crosses opposing traffic to park facing the wrong direction. Section 25-120 lists eleven prohibited parking locations citywide, including sidewalks, intersections, crosswalks, grade-crossing approaches, bridges, within fifteen feet of a building entrance, within ten feet of a fire hydrant, within fifteen feet of an intersection, and, at subsection (k), "in front of any driveway," the provision that governs blocking a resident's driveway access.

All three sections carry the same Chapter 25 criminal penalty rather than a separate civil fine schedule, and the underlying stopping/standing/parking authority traces to G.S. §§ 20-161-20-163. The Jacksonville Police Department issues citations under these sections as part of routine traffic enforcement.