Newark, OH Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)
Key Facts
- Driveway blocking
- Prohibited in front of any public or private driveway; $50.00 fine
- Fire hydrant
- No parking within ten feet; $50.00 fine
- Crosswalk
- No parking on it ($50.00) or within 20 feet at intersections ($30.00)
- Curb distance
- Right-hand wheels not more than 12 inches from the curb
- Wrong-way parking
- Vehicle must face the direction of travel; $100.00 fine
- Corner clearance
- Ten feet at alleys, five feet at drives; $30.00 fine
Summary
In the City of Newark, Ohio, Section 452.03 bars stopping or parking in front of any public or private driveway, within ten feet of a fire hydrant, on a crosswalk, within an intersection and in a long list of other spots. Posted signs and yellow-painted curbing carry the same force, and fines run from $30.00 to $100.00.
No person shall stand or park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or to comply with the provisions of this title, or while obeying the directions of a police officer or a traffic-control device, in any of the following places. See Section 407.10 for parking infraction fines. (a) On a sidewalk, except a bicycle or motorized bicycle; (b) In front of a public or private driveway; (c) Within ten feet of either side of a public street or highway where the same intersects an alley or within five feet of either side of a public or private drive where the same intersects a public street or highway; (d) Within an intersection; (e) Within ten feet of a fire hydrant; (f) On a crosswalk; (g) Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection; ... (o) At any place where signs prohibit stopping, standing, or parking, or where the curbing is painted yellow, or at any place in excess of the maximum time limited by signs; (p) Within one foot of another parked vehicle;
Full Breakdown
Chapter 452 of the Newark Code of Ordinances, enacted by the Newark City Council as part of the city's Traffic Code, sets the parking rules for public streets in the City of Newark, Ohio. Section 452.03 covers stopping and standing as well as parking. Its introduction excuses only a driver who must avoid conflict with other traffic, who is complying with the traffic title, or who is obeying a police officer or a traffic-control device.
The list is specific. No parking within ten feet of either side of a street where it meets an alley, or within five feet of either side of a drive meeting a street. Ten feet from a fire hydrant. Twenty feet from a crosswalk at an intersection. Thirty feet from, and on the approach to, a flashing beacon, stop sign or traffic-control device. Fifty feet from the nearest rail of a railroad crossing. Twenty feet from a fire station driveway, plus 75 feet on the opposite side when the entrance is posted with signs. Division (m) bars parking alongside a vehicle already stopped at the curb, division (p) requires a gap of one foot from another parked vehicle, and division (r) bars a marked fire lane or fire apparatus access point.
Section 452.04 governs how a car sits at the curb: the right-hand wheels must be parallel with and not more than 12 inches from the right-hand curb, and under division (c) no vehicle may face against the direction of travel on its side of the road. Angle parking exists only where an ordinance permits it, and never on a state route within the city unless an unoccupied roadway width of not less than 25 feet remains for moving traffic.
Section 452.01 separately forbids leaving a vehicle on the paved or main traveled part of a highway when it is practicable to park off it, and requires a clear view of the vehicle from 200 feet in each direction. Under 452.02 a police officer can move the vehicle, or have it taken to the nearest garage or other place of safety when it obstructs traffic. Section 452.10 makes the registered owner prima facie responsible for an unlawfully parked vehicle.
Violations & Fines
Newark treats parking violations as civil infractions under Chapter 407, with the schedule in Section 407.10. Blocking a driveway under 452.03(b), parking in an intersection, within ten feet of a hydrant, on a crosswalk or in a fire lane each carry a $50.00 fine. Sidewalk parking, parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk, within one foot of another vehicle or at a sign-prohibited place carry $30.00. Manner-of-parking violations under 452.04(a) and (c) carry $100.00. A 452.01 citation adds impound charges to a $50.00 fine. Under 407.03 the ticket can be fixed to the windshield, owner and operator are jointly liable, and no one is arrested for a parking infraction.
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