Winnebago County, WI Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

Winnebago County does not write out its own list of parking rules. Ch. 9 § 9.28 instead adopts §§ 346.50 through 346.56, Wis. Stats., "by reference" and makes them part of the county code "as if fully set forth herein." A driver who wants the actual rules has to read those state sections. They govern where vehicles may stop, stand or park, and they include the rules on blocking driveways, stopping on the wrong side of the road and no-stopping zones.

The adoption in § 9.28 has a built-in limit. The county takes in each state section "to the extent such statutory section requires any act to be performed or prohibits any act." In plain terms, Winnebago County picks up the commands and the prohibitions in §§ 346.50 through 346.56: the things a driver must do and the things a driver must not do. Those are the parts a county ticket can rest on.

Geography is the second limit. § 9.28 "shall be applicable in all unincorporated areas of Winnebago County." The text speaks to roads outside the county's incorporated communities and does not claim to govern parking inside them.

The penalty is the county's own. "Any person who violates any provision of this section of the Code" is subject to a forfeiture of $10.00 per violation under § 9.28(4). Because the amount is set per violation, each separate stopping, standing or parking violation carries its own $10.00. The forfeiture is flat, so it is the same whether the violation is a blocked driveway or a wrong-side stop, and Winnebago County adds no statutory surcharge on top.

The section took effect December 1, 2008.