Yuma, AZ Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing law
- A.R.S. § 28-871 / Yuma Code § 212-09
- Core rule
- pull off paved road when practicable
- Clearance required
- 200-ft sightline, unobstructed opposite lane
- Disabled-vehicle exception
- impossible-to-move vehicles exempted
- Mail-carrier exception
- marked USPS vehicles delivering mail
- Local ordinance history
- Ord. 1798, adopted 1978
Summary
Arizona law, adopted into Yuma's own traffic code at § 212-09, bars stopping, parking or leaving a vehicle on the paved part of any road outside a business or residence district whenever it's practicable to pull off the roadway. A.R.S. § 28-871 also requires leaving 200 feet of clear sightline around a parked vehicle, with narrow exceptions for disabled vehicles and U.S. mail carriers.
A. On a highway outside of a business or residence district, a person shall not stop, park or leave standing a vehicle, whether attended or unattended, on the paved or main traveled part of the highway if it is practicable to stop, park or leave the vehicle off that part of the highway. If a person stops, parks or leaves standing a vehicle, the person shall leave an unobstructed width of the highway opposite the standing vehicle for the free passage of other vehicles and a clear view of the standing vehicle shall be available from a distance of two hundred feet in each direction on the highway. B. This section does not apply to: 1. The driver of a vehicle that is disabled while on the paved or main traveled portion of a highway in a manner and to an extent that it is impossible to avoid stopping and temporarily leaving the disabled vehicle in that position.
Full Breakdown
' Yuma adopted that local mirror through Ord. 1798 in 1978 ('80 Code § 30-54), and it has not been separately amended since. The state statute goes further than the one-sentence local version in two ways. First, subsection A requires that anyone who does stop on the paved roadway leave an unobstructed lane for other traffic and keep the parked vehicle visible from 200 feet in either direction, protecting drivers approaching at highway speed from a blind stop. S. S. Mail' sign and either a 300-foot sightline or a four-inch amber flashing 'stop' light on the rear. § 28-626, unless the officer cites the state code directly.
Violations & Fines
No section-specific penalty attaches to § 212-09 or A.R.S. § 28-871 itself, so a citation defaults to the general civil sanction in Yuma City Code § 212-99(A), issued under A.R.S. § 28-626 as a civil traffic violation. Officers may cite under either the state statute or the matching local ordinance; both carry the same general civil-sanction exposure rather than a fixed dollar figure set in the code text.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Yuma have its own rule about parking outside town on the highway shoulder?
What extra protection does state law add beyond Yuma's local ordinance?
Are there any exceptions to the outside-district parking rule?
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