Sherman, TX Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

Two sections of Article 12.04 of the Sherman Code of Ordinances set the core street parking rules. Section 12.04.004 bars any person from stopping, standing or parking a vehicle on a street so as to leave available less than ten feet of the width of either lane for free movement of vehicular traffic. The one exception covers a driver stopping temporarily during actual loading or unloading of passengers, or when necessary in obedience to traffic regulations, signs, signals or a police officer.

Section 12.04.005 makes it unlawful to cause, allow, permit or suffer a vehicle registered in your name, or owned, operated, possessed or controlled by you, to be or remain in a space reserved for another person, in an area where parking is prohibited, or in a time limit space for longer than the marking or clearly visible signs allow. The registered owner of an unlawfully parked vehicle is legally presumed to be the person who parked it. The vehicle can be immobilized and removed from all public property, including roadways, rights-of-way and easements. Specific no parking zones are kept on file in the office of the city clerk.

The director of public services has stalls, fire lanes and time limit areas marked as the City Council designates, and the council sets the days and hours each restriction applies (§ 12.04.001). Section 12.04.002 makes it an offense to evade a parking time limit by moving the vehicle or destroying marks on it. Under § 12.04.003, parking on a street to exhibit a vehicle for sale, wash it or repair it is an offense, except for emergency repairs. Where lines are painted, § 12.04.006(c) requires a vehicle to sit entirely within them, and an oversized or towing vehicle cannot occupy more than two marked spaces.

In the downtown zone described in § 12.04.010, parking is limited to two hours between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., with three-hour parking on listed streets including Crockett, Travis, Pecan, Wall, Houston, Lamar and Jones. Alley parking that blocks free passage is barred by § 12.04.007.