Parking Rules in Indiana (2026)

Fort Wayne allows operable RVs, campers and boats in residential districts only on an approved parking surface tied to…

In unincorporated LaPorte County, a recreational vehicle or travel trailer cannot stay on a residential lot for more…

In unincorporated Allen County, licensed and operable recreational vehicles, campers, boats and pull-behind trailers up…

Anderson's Zoning Ordinance lets you keep an RV, boat, or travel trailer on a residential lot with an occupied home. It…

Carmel lets residents keep recreational vehicles, boats and boat trailers on their own property, but they must sit well…

Evansville requires trailers, RVs, watercraft and other registrable vehicles kept on residential property to display…

Fishers, Indiana caps RV, trailer and boat parking on the public right-of-way at 72 continuous hours, then bars return…

Rules come from each city, not the county. Noblesville requires campers, RVs and boat trailers be stored in a building…

The Indianapolis-Marion County Dwelling Districts Zoning Ordinance (Sec. 731-219(b)(5)) lets residents park or store…

Lake County's UDO sets no blanket ban on keeping an RV, camper, or boat at your home in unincorporated areas, but a…

St. Joseph County limits where a stored recreational vehicle, trailer or mobile home can sit on residential and…

In unincorporated Tippecanoe County, the Unified Zoning Ordinance treats a stored recreational vehicle, boat, or boat…

Vanderburgh County requires an unlicensed camper or motor home, along with any other automotive vehicle lacking current…

Residential vehicles in unincorporated Allen County may only be parked in a driveway or on an improved surface directly…

You may not stop, stand, or park across a public or private driveway on Anderson streets. Zoning rules require most…

Vehicles must be parked on a driveway or hard surface: you may not park or store a vehicle or trailer on your lawn or…

Evansville zoning requires every required front yard to be kept in grass or comparable natural ground cover, with…

Fort Wayne bans parking cars, trucks, RVs, campers and boats on grass or yard areas in residential districts: they must…

Cities generally require vehicles to be parked on an improved driveway rather than a lawn, and limit yard storage…

Any driveway or approach connecting to a county road in unincorporated Hendricks County needs a right-of-way permit…

Indiana Code 9-21-16-5 prohibits stopping, standing, or parking in front of a public or private driveway. Under the…

In unincorporated Lake County, off-street parking is prohibited in front and street-side setback areas in residential…

Cutting a new driveway onto a county road or building one to serve a residence in unincorporated LaPorte County…

Porter County requires every driveway and off-street parking area to be paved with concrete, asphalt or brick pavers…

South Bend bans parking any motor vehicle, including RVs and trucks, on the front, side or rear yard of a residentially…

St. Joseph County requires every off-street parking area and connecting driveway to be hard surfaced with asphalt…

Building or paving a private driveway onto a county highway in unincorporated Tippecanoe County requires a permit from…

Vanderburgh County's zoning code, Section 17.24.040, requires off-street parking areas and access drives to have a…

Code of Indianapolis & Marion County Sec. 621-118 bars commercial vehicles and trucks with more than two axles from…

Vanderburgh County bans parking or storing commercial vehicles and equipment on property zoned A, R-1 through R-5…

Fishers, Indiana bars parking any commercial vehicle, truck, trailer or semitrailer weighing 10,000 pounds or more on…

Fort Wayne bans parking construction equipment, large trucks, semi-trucks, truck-tractors, farm tractors and buses in…

Porter County makes it unlawful to park a truck, trailer, or commercial-type motor vehicle on the paved portion of a…

St. Joseph County bars parking any tractor, tow truck, dump truck, flatbed, semitrailer or similar vehicle of one and…

Oversized vehicles - buses, semi-trailers, semi-trucks, trucks over one ton, and pull-behind trailers over 100 sq ft…

Anderson bars trucks and commercial vehicles from parking or standing on any street or alley in a residential district…

Large commercial vehicles, semis and construction vehicles cannot be parked in a residential district for more than…

Evansville bars parking any vehicle over 21 feet long, eight feet wide, nine feet high, or 11,000 pounds GVW on a…

The Lake County UDO restricts storing oversized and heavy vehicles at homes: parking trucks or tractors with dual rear…

South Bend bars trucks with an empty gross vehicle weight over 11,000 pounds from parking on any street next to an A…

Tippecanoe County caps how big a truck, semitrailer or bus can be before it is illegal to park on any county highway…

The Allen County Traffic Ordinance bans parking on sidewalks, within intersections, within 5 feet of any driveway…

Anderson requires vehicles parked on a street to be parallel with the edge of the roadway, headed with traffic, with…

Cars must be parked parallel to the curb, facing the direction of traffic, with the right-hand wheels within twelve…

Clark County's traffic code bars parking on the traveled portion of any county road and within five feet of it…

Evansville bars parking in front of any driveway, within four feet of a driveway edge, or facing the wrong way…

Fishers, Indiana bans stopping or parking on sidewalks, in front of driveways, within intersections or crosswalks, and…

Fort Wayne bans parking against traffic flow and within 5 feet of any driveway or alley, plus 20+ other specified…

Hendricks County's Chapter 73 parking schedule bans parking at all times on specific named streets and road segments…

Indianapolis requires parallel-to-curb parking within twelve inches of the curb (Code of Indianapolis & Marion County…

Lake County's UDO does not regulate resident on-street parking; it only lets nonresidential uses count striped street…

LaPorte County prohibits parking any motor vehicle on county road rights-of-way, shoulders, or along the side of county…

South Bend prohibits parking anywhere posted as a no-parking, time-limited or hour-restricted zone, and caps…

In unincorporated St. Joseph County it is illegal to park or stop on the traveled portion of any road except for…

Tippecanoe County posts no-parking signs and pavement markings to control stopping, standing and parking on county…

Indiana's state parking laws govern county streets by default, but Vanderburgh County's board of commissioners can post…

Allen County sets no general overnight street-parking ban. But an illegally parked vehicle that stays ticketed for more…

Anderson has no blanket ban on parking a passenger car on a residential street overnight. It does bar trucks and…

Fishers, Indiana posts overnight no-parking hours, typically 3:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m., on specific signed streets under…

Fort Wayne bans parking on designated streets from 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. under Code § 72.06, with exceptions only for…

Indiana sets no statewide overnight ban, but Hamilton County cities cap how long a vehicle may sit on a public street…

Lake County's Unified Development Ordinance sets no overnight on-street parking prohibition for residents. Overnight…

South Bend bans overnight street parking downtown twice over: § 20-61 clears vehicles from the central commercial area…

Indianapolis has no blanket overnight street-parking ban for ordinary passenger vehicles, but Code Sec. 621-117 caps…

Fort Wayne reserves marked electric vehicle parking spaces for vehicles that are plugged in and actively charging; any…

Any Indianapolis development with 500 or more required off-street parking spaces must install at least two electric…

Lake County's UDO permits private EV charging stations as an accessory use in all zoning districts, and public charging…

Evansville lets any development count an EV-charging parking space as two spaces when calculating required off-street…

Indiana Code Title 9, Article 22, Chapter 1 establishes a uniform statewide framework for identifying, towing, storing…

Fort Wayne makes it unlawful to keep a partially dismantled, wrecked, junked, non-operating, or unplated vehicle on…

Hamilton County bans accumulating junk or "prohibited vehicles," including abandoned, inoperable and excess vehicles…

Hendricks County treats discarding a scrap-value, inoperable, unlicensed, or abandoned vehicle as illegal dumping…

Porter County's UDO bans storing unlicensed or inoperable vehicles in the front or side yard of any property, with a…

South Bend declares abandoned vehicles a public nuisance and lets the Board of Public Works tag, tow and dispose of…

Vanderburgh County bans keeping an abandoned, unlicensed, or junked vehicle exposed to public view, whether on public…

It is unlawful to leave any abandoned, partially dismantled, non-operating, wrecked or junked vehicle on public or…

In Anderson it is unlawful to allow an abandoned, inoperable, or unlicensed vehicle on your property (unless inside a…

An abandoned, unlicensed, inoperable or wrecked vehicle is a nuisance if left on the street or public property more…

In unincorporated Clark County, parking an abandoned vehicle or abandoned mobile home on land that has not been zoned…

Elkhart County enforces Indiana's abandoned-vehicle statute, I.C. 9-22-1, through Chapter 73 of the county code…

Evansville can tag, tow, and dispose of vehicles left on public property over 24 hours or on private property without…

Fishers police can tag and tow vehicles left unmoved on public property for three days, or on private property without…

Code of Indianapolis & Marion County Sec. 621-127 makes it a violation to store, maintain, or keep any inoperable…

Storing inoperable or abandoned vehicles or vehicle parts in an unincorporated Lake County zoning district that doesn't…

LaPorte County bans keeping, parking, or storing any wrecked, junked, or abandoned vehicle in the unincorporated county…

Under Indiana Code 9-13-2-1 a vehicle is abandoned once it sits on public property for 24 hours, blocks traffic, or…

Leaving a vehicle on someone else's private property without permission, or parking it where it blocks traffic or…

Fishers marks fire lanes with yellow curb striping and 'No Parking Fire Lane' signage, not red paint, and bars stopping…

Anderson has no ordinance assigning meanings to painted curb colors (red/yellow/etc.). The city itself paints or marks…

Evansville uses yellow curb paint, not signs alone, to mark 24-hour no-parking zones; either a posted sign or a yellow…

The Allen County Traffic Code defines curb loading zones - passenger curb loading zones reserved for vehicles while…

In Anderson, the Police Department's traffic section, with the Chief of Police and Board of Public Safety, sets loading…

Evansville limits standing in a passenger curb loading zone to five minutes and a freight curb loading zone to 30…

Fishers designates loading zones by resolution of the Board of Public Works and Safety and caps any stop in a marked…

Fort Wayne caps passenger loading at 3 minutes and freight loading at 30 minutes in marked curb loading zones, with…

Downtown Regional Center vehicle loading zones run 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays only, with a strict 20-minute loading…

For developments in unincorporated Lake County, off-street loading areas must be designed so all vehicle maneuvering…

Commercial and industrial buildings in Porter County must provide loading berths sized to gross floor area under the…

South Bend limits any street space marked as a loading zone to the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers or…

St. Joseph County requires every commercial, mixed-use or industrial development needing an improvement location permit…

Tippecanoe County's Unified Zoning Ordinance requires new or substantially altered buildings that receive or distribute…

Trucks in Vanderburgh County may stop, stand, or park on a county highway only inside a freight-loading zone…

Evansville lets a block become a preferential resident parking area if 51% of property owners petition and it falls…

Fishers, Indiana lets residents on streets inside a designated Residential Parking Permit Zone apply through the Police…

Indianapolis residents living on a street inside a designated residential permit parking zone can apply for a one-year…

When the Mayor declares a snow emergency, parking is banned on Fort Wayne's designated Schedule 18 emergency routes…

When the mayor declares a snow emergency, parking is banned on all first priority streets in Indianapolis and Marion…

Once two inches or more of snow has fallen, it's unlawful to park on the paved portion of any county-maintained street…

When South Bend declares a 'snow route clearance condition,' parking is banned entirely on every street posted as a…

Once the Board of Commissioners or the County Highway Department declares a snow emergency, parking is banned on every…

When Evansville's Mayor or Board of Public Works declares a snow emergency, parking is banned on signed snow routes…

Porter County bans parking on the paved portion of any county-maintained street or highway after a snowfall of two…

When the Board of Commissioners declares a travel watch or travel warning for snow, ice or storm debris, county…

Indiana regulates nonconsensual towing through IC 24-14, the towing services article, backed by the abandoned vehicle…

When the Evansville Police Department orders a tow, the designated towing service must add a $100.00 City…

A non-consensual tow off a private lot in Indianapolis is capped at $150, with storage limited to $30 per…