Parking Rules in Alabama (2026)

Auburn bans parking recreational vehicles like travel trailers, camper trucks and motor homes on any public…

Bessemer's zoning code caps RVs, boat trailers and camping trailers parked in residential yards at 32 feet long and…

Birmingham's Off-Street Parking ordinance (Zoning Ordinance Title 1, Chapter 5, adopted 2024) treats RVs, campers…

Hoover lets residents store boats, RVs, and trailers in a yard past 48 hours only if the vehicle sits behind the front…

Huntsville caps how heavy a truck, bus, or trailer can sit on a residential lot and bans sleeping in a parked RV there.

Madison bans leaving any recreational vehicle, mobile home, motor home, boat, or trailer on a public street in R-1A…

Mobile lets residents park one recreational vehicle on their property in a residential district, but the RV can't be…

Montgomery bars parking a recreational vehicle on a public street, and any RV, boat trailer or camper stored outside a…

Tuscaloosa bans parking a boat, RV, trailer, or semitrailer on any street, alley, or public way for storage, display…

Montgomery bans parking a motor vehicle in a front yard unless it sits on a proper paved driveway, and bans parking on…

Every off-street parking space in Auburn, including driveways and maneuvering areas, must be improved with a hard…

Bessemer requires all permanent off-street parking to be sealed-surface construction and confines single- and…

Birmingham bars parking a motor vehicle, RV, boat or trailer in a residential front yard unless it sits on a paved…

Along major arterial streets, Huntsville bans off-street parking in the first ten feet of the required front yard and…

Inside Jefferson County's Traditional Village District (TVD), the zoning code bars front-yard vehicle parking outright…

In Madison residential districts you may only park in the front yard on a paved driveway no wider than an attached…

Tuscaloosa bars parking cars, trucks, RVs, and similar vehicles in front yards off the paved right-of-way within…

Vestavia Hills lets detached single-family homes and duplexes swap a solid-paved driveway for a ribbon-type driveway or…

Hoover bans parking commercial trucks, boats, RVs, trailers and similar vehicles on any city street, alley or public…

Montgomery, Alabama bars parking trailers, buses, mobile homes and truck-tagged commercial vehicles on residential…

Tuscaloosa bans parking, standing, or stopping any heavy truck, tractor-trailer, or vehicle with three or more axles in…

Auburn bans parking or storing commercial vehicles, trailers or construction equipment wider than 7 feet or longer than…

Bessemer allows only one commercial vehicle per family in a residential district, capped at one and one-half tons rated…

Birmingham's Off-Street Parking ordinance (Zoning Ord. Title 1, Ch. 5, adopted 2024) governs where commercial vehicles…

Huntsville bans parking any vehicle longer than 20 feet on streets unless parallel parking is allowed there, covering…

Madison restricts oversized and heavy vehicles in residential zones: any truck, tractor-trailer, bus, or motor vehicle…

Mobile defines a large vehicle as anything 20 feet long and 8 feet tall, or 25 feet long regardless of height, and Sec…

Vestavia Hills confines commercial vehicles in residential zoning districts to parking behind the front building line…

Auburn lists ten specific places where parking is always illegal: sidewalks, crosswalks, driveways without owner…

Bessemer requires vehicles parked on public streets to sit parallel to the curb with the right-side wheels within 18…

On-street parking in Birmingham is governed by Title 10, Chapter 9 (Stopping, Standing and Parking) of the City Code…

Hoover bans parking on sidewalks and within 10 feet of any driveway on either side, plus wrong-side one-way parking and…

Huntsville bars parking that blocks a driveway, narrows a street below ten feet of clear roadway, or leaves a car…

On streets marked with painted parking lines, you must park within the lines, parallel, and within 18 inches of the…

Mobile bans parking on sidewalks, in intersections, and in front of driveways, plus within set distances of fire…

Montgomery, Alabama bans on-street parking that blocks any traffic lane, blocks a driveway entrance in an alley, or…

Tuscaloosa bans stopping or parking on sidewalks, in front of driveways, within 15 feet of an intersection or fire…

Vestavia Hills bans parking in marked fire lanes and in driveways or access lanes at any public parking area, meaning…

Hoover prohibits parking and occupying a recreational vehicle, motor home, travel trailer, pickup camper or van…

Huntsville bars parking overnight and sleeping in RVs, campers, vans, or other vehicles with sleeping quarters on city…

Tuscaloosa bans sleeping or occupying an RV, camper, or van overnight on any street, and any vehicle left parked…

Auburn bars leaving any vehicle parked on a public street or public way for more than 72 hours straight. The city…

Bessemer bans leaving a vehicle standing continuously on a public street for more than 24 hours in areas listed on the…

Birmingham does not impose a blanket residential overnight on-street parking ban, but Title 10, Chapter 9 of the City…

Madison has no blanket citywide overnight street-parking ban, but recreational vehicles, boats, and trailers may not be…

Mobile has no nightly parking curfew, but Sec. 61-266 makes it a nuisance to leave any vehicle standing on a public…

Montgomery, Alabama caps overnight parking in the central business district at one hour between 2:00 a.m. and 5:00…

Vestavia Hills makes it unlawful to leave a trailer, mobile home, unserviceable vehicle, camper or boat on any public…

Large parking lots in Huntsville must set aside EV-capable spaces with electrical capacity for future chargers once the…

Tuscaloosa zoning treats an EV charging station as an accessory use permitted by right in every zoning district. Sec…

Mobile's Unified Development Code lists 'electric vehicle charging station' as an accessory use, marked 'A', in all…

Alabama law sets statewide procedures for handling abandoned vehicles, requiring notice to owners, lienholders, and the…

Bessemer bans abandoning a motor vehicle on any street or public way and caps a dismantled, wrecked or discarded…

Parking, leaving or storing more than one unregistered, untagged motor vehicle in public view on any Madison County…

Montgomery, Alabama bars keeping a dismantled, junked or inoperable vehicle in the open on any property. City Code Sec…

Auburn makes it unlawful to leave any vehicle on a public street or public way for more than 72 hours. The city manager…

Birmingham declares lost, stolen or abandoned automobiles left on private parking lots or land to be health and safety…

Hoover caps residential lots at two inoperable vehicles and declares any unscreened extra a public nuisance subject to…

Leaving an inoperable or unlicensed vehicle on a Huntsville street or other public property is a code violation. The…

Jefferson County's Weed and Litter Ordinance caps unincorporated-area property at one inoperable motor vehicle. Keep a…

Storing more than two inoperable, unregistered motor vehicles on any lot in unincorporated Lee County is a public…

In Madison it is a violation to leave an inoperable vehicle or vehicle junk on residential or commercial property for…

Mobile declares any inoperable vehicle left in public view on private property for 30 or more days a public nuisance…

In unincorporated Mobile County, parking or storing more than one unregistered, untagged motor vehicle in public view…

Tuscaloosa bans keeping a partially dismantled, wrecked, junked, or nonoperative vehicle on private property under City…

Vestavia Hills presumes any vehicle left on a street or highway for 48 consecutive hours to be abandoned, bars wrecked…

Hoover requires emergency/fire lanes in parking areas to be clearly marked by painting the curb or striping the…

Huntsville requires property owners to mark emergency lanes and fire hydrant no-parking zones with red painted curbs…

Madison does not authorize residents to paint public curbs. Curb and pavement markings are set by the city: you must…

Montgomery, Alabama makes it unlawful to paint, delineate or mark any curb, curb return or driveway approach. City Code…

Tuscaloosa reserves curb painting to the fire chief and the director of transportation. A yellow curb marks a…

Bessemer restricts marked loading zones to freight loading and unloading for businesses in that block, bans parking…

Birmingham's traffic engineer designates passenger and freight curb loading zones and posts the hours each applies. A…

Any Hoover building that receives or dispatches vehicles for business must set aside a paved, graded loading space at…

Huntsville caps designated pull-off bays at 30 minutes for passenger loading and commercial delivery, keeping curb…

In Madison, parking excludes brief stops for loading or unloading in a prescribed zone. The code establishes specific…

Mobile's traffic engineer decides where buses, taxis, and other passenger carriers may stop under Sec. 61-315, marking…

Montgomery, Alabama limits passenger curb loading zones to three minutes and freight curb loading zones to 30 minutes…

Tuscaloosa caps loading zone stops at 30 minutes and delivery zone stops at 10 minutes under City Code Sec. 22-98, with…

Vestavia Hills forbids loading and unloading noise between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. under its Noise Control Ordinance…

Auburn requires loading zones inside its parking meter district to be marked with lines painted or durably set on the…

Alabama regulates the paperwork of a nonconsensual tow far more tightly than the price of one. Ala. Code § 32-13-2(d)…

Huntsville puts a hard dollar ceiling on what a rotation wrecker may charge when a vehicle is towed without the owner's…

Mobile puts hard dollar ceilings on nonconsensual towing. Section 63-39, adopted July 15, 2025, caps a class A tow of a…