Pasco, WA Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)
Key Facts
- Driveway blocking fine
- $40.00 Class One civil infraction
- Wrong-side/curb-distance fine
- $80.00 Class Two civil infraction
- Enforcing authority
- Pasco Police Department
- Late response penalty
- $25.00 added after 15 days
- Legal basis
- Washington Model Traffic Ordinance, WAC 308-330
- Impound trigger
- Vehicle blocking driveway or traffic hazard
Summary
Pasco enforces the state Model Traffic Ordinance's stopping and standing rules on every City street: parking in front of a driveway, on the wrong side of the road, or more than 12 inches from the curb draws a civil infraction. PMC 10.20.080 sets the fines, and police may impound any vehicle left illegally parked as a hazard, including one blocking a driveway.
(1) The penalty provisions of Chapter 308-330 WAC are hereby adopted by reference as if set forth in full; exception: any person found to be in violation of any provision of RCW 46.61.570 and 46.61.575 ... shall be deemed to have committed a civil infraction and for each such violation shall be subject to a civil penalty in the amount listed below... (a) Class One. Violations of the following are subject to a maximum penalty of $40.00: ... (viii) RCW 46.61.570(1)(b)(i) through RCW 46.61.570(1)(b)(vi): Illegal parking in front of driveway, fire hydrant, where signs prohibit stopping, etc. ... (b) Class Two. Violations of the following are subject to a maximum penalty of $80.00: ... (ii) RCW 46.61.575(1): Illegal stopping/parking on wrong side of road more than 12 inches from curb on a two-way road. (iii) RCW 46.61.575(2): Illegal stopping/parking more than 12 inches from curb on one-way road.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance 4837, passed May 4, 2026).
Full Breakdown
080 sets the local penalty schedule for violating it on City streets. 570(1)(a). 00. ' The registered owner pays towing and storage before the vehicle is released. 080(2), and each day or overtime period a violation continues counts as a separate offense under subsection (3). 010 bars parking within eight feet of an alley's roadway width and forbids blocking a driveway entrance from an alley, itself a Class Two violation. 040 also creates a rebuttable presumption that the registered owner was the person who parked the vehicle illegally, easing enforcement for the Pasco Police Department.
Violations & Fines
Blocking a driveway or parking on the wrong side of the road is a civil infraction, not a crime. Fines run $40.00 for driveway, fire-hydrant, or no-stopping-zone violations (Class One) and $80.00 for wrong-side or more-than-12-inch curb violations (Class Two), plus court costs and a $25.00 penalty for late response. Illegally parked vehicles blocking traffic, including driveways, may be towed at the owner's expense under PMC 10.20.070.
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Sources & Official References
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