Shelby, MI Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)
Key Facts
- General street limit
- 48 consecutive hours, Section 500-1
- First Street
- Parking prohibited entirely, Section 500-3
- Michigan Ave. (2nd-4th St.)
- 2-hour limit, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., not Sunday
- Michigan Ave. spacing
- Must park within marked spaces, Section 500-4B
- Enforcement
- Municipal civil infraction, Section 500-5
- Repeat violation
- Increased fine within 24-month period
Summary
Shelby caps on-street parking at 48 consecutive hours anywhere in the Village and bans parking entirely on First Street. On Michigan Avenue between Second and Fourth Streets, vehicles get only two hours between 8:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. on any day but Sunday, and must sit inside the marked spaces.
No person shall park any motor vehicle or other vehicle on any of the streets or alleys of the Village for a longer time than 48 consecutive hours. ... No driver of any vehicle, nor any person owning or having control of such vehicle, shall park, or cause or permit such vehicle to be parked, upon First Street. ... No owner, driver or operator of any motor vehicle shall park his or her motor vehicle upon either the east side or the west side of Michigan Avenue between Second Street and Fourth Street in the Village on any day of the week, except Sunday, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., for a period longer than two hours. ... Any person who violates, disobeys, omits, neglects, or refuses to comply with or resists the enforcement of this article shall be responsible for a municipal civil infraction, subject to § 1-2.
Full Breakdown
The Village's Vehicles and Traffic chapter, Chapter 500, sets a general 48-hour cap on street parking: Section 500-1 provides that no person shall park any motor vehicle or other vehicle on any of the streets or alleys of the Village for a longer time than 48 consecutive hours, an ordinance the Village Council amended back in 1931. First Street carries a flat ban, Section 500-3: no driver or vehicle owner may park there at all. on any day except Sunday, and Section 500-4B additionally requires every vehicle there to sit inside the marked parking spaces rather than at the curb generally.
These street-specific limits sit within Article I, "Parking," which was carried forward from Chapter 450 of the Village's 2000 Codified Ordinances. Chapter 500 also adopts the state's Uniform Traffic Code and the Michigan Vehicle Code by reference in later articles, so a driver who runs afoul of broader rules, wrong-way parking or blocking a driveway among them, is prosecuted under the incorporated state code rather than Article I. Article I's own text addresses duration and location limits, the 48-hour rule, First Street, and Michigan Avenue, rather than obstruction offenses, and the Village enforces all of it as a municipal civil infraction under Section 500-5, with stiffer fines for repeat offenders within a rolling 24 months.
Violations & Fines
Under Section 500-5, anyone who violates, disobeys or resists enforcement of Chapter 500's parking article is responsible for a municipal civil infraction, with the base fine set by Section 1-2. A second or subsequent violation by the same person within any 24-month period triggers an increased civil fine, also fixed by Section 1-2. The Village Police Department is the enforcing agency for on-street parking violations.
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