Sedona, AZ Special Events & Permits: Parade Permits (2026)

140(A) sets Sedona's baseline rule for public assemblies of vehicles or people moving through the streets: no procession or parade may be held without first getting a permit from the director of community development, and the request has to spell out the time, place of formation, proposed line of march and destination, plus anything else the director sets as a condition. Funerals are carved out of the permit requirement entirely, but subsection (B) still requires funeral processions to be identifiable by a method the police chief determines and designates, so the exemption is not a free pass to move through the city unmarked.

Once a procession, funeral or otherwise, is conspicuously designated and in motion, subsection (C) bars other drivers from cutting between its vehicles, with one carve-out: intersections where a traffic signal or the police department is actively controlling traffic. Subsection (D) then places obligations on the procession's own drivers, requiring each to hug the right-hand edge of the roadway as practical and to follow the vehicle ahead as closely as is practical and safe, which keeps a permitted parade or a funeral cortege from spreading across lanes and blocking cross traffic. S. Section 28-622 if a person defies a lawful police order.