Parking Rules in Kentucky (2026)

Boats, campers, travel trailers and motor-homes can't be parked on a Boone County road, street or county-maintained lot…

In unincorporated Franklin County, Kentucky, no major recreational equipment or trailer of any kind can be parked or…

Kenton County bans leaving a recreational vehicle or trailer, including travel trailers, camping trailers, and motor…

In the City of Bowling Green, Kentucky, no one may park a tractor trailer, boat, camper, motor home or trailer, or any…

Campbell County limits outdoor storage of trailers, mobile homes, RVs, campers, and boats to the rear yard of the lot…

In unincorporated Daviess County, a boat trailer, camping trailer, watercraft, trailer or motor home can't sit on an…

Lexington-Fayette forbids parking any vehicle, including an RV, trailer, or boat, in a residential front, side, or back…

Louisville Metro caps how many trucks and RVs a household can park outdoors and bans staging them in front of the…

In the City of Owensboro, it is unlawful to park farm equipment, trucks, utility trailers, boats, recreational…

Metro Government requires a permit before any driveway is installed or modified, and bans parking pads or parking areas…

In unincorporated Campbell County's single-family zones, front-yard parking areas cannot exceed 400 square feet, about…

In unincorporated Franklin County, Kentucky, § 155.335(A) requires clearly defined driveways with printed limits: a…

Parking a vehicle anywhere in a Lexington-Fayette residential front, side or back yard is unlawful unless it's on an…

Unincorporated McCracken County's zoning code requires every off-street parking lot of four or more spaces to be built…

In the City of Owensboro, Sec. 5-137(b)(23) bans parking or storing a vehicle on any surface not intended for vehicular…

Commercial vehicles can't sit parked on Boone County roads, streets or county-maintained lots except while actively…

In unincorporated Franklin County, Kentucky, no vehicle with more than two axles that requires a commercial driver's…

Kenton County outright bans leaving a motor truck, semitrailer, or truck tractor parked at any time on any county…

Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government makes it unlawful to park any vehicle that is carrying or has carried cattle…

Louisville Metro prohibits parking any trailer coach or motor home on a street, alley, or public place unless actively…

Farm equipment, full-size trucks, utility and truck trailers, boats, RVs and buses can't sit on a public way in a…

Boone County's parking chapter bars parking within 20 feet of an intersection, five feet of a driveway or mailbox, 15…

Bowling Green's Board of Commissioners bans stopping, standing or parking within 10 feet of a driveway, in crosswalks…

Campbell County Code § 72.02 lets the Judge/Executive, with Fiscal Court approval, post no-parking signs on county…

Kenton County bars parking within 38 feet of a street-intersection center line, seven feet of a mailbox near a…

Lexington-Fayette bans stopping, standing or parking in front of any driveway, within 15 feet of a fire hydrant, on a…

Louisville Metro requires vehicles to park flush and parallel to the curb on the correct side of the street, and bars…

In the City of Owensboro, vehicles must park with the right-hand side parallel to and within twelve inches of the curb…

In unincorporated Jessamine County, Kentucky, the Fiscal Court's parking chapter bans parking, standing and waiting on…

Oldham County Code § 70.01 makes the registered owner of any illegally parked vehicle in the county responsible for the…

Louisville Metro bans parking any vehicle in the same spot on a public street for 24 hours or more, whether or not it's…

In the City of Owensboro, no vehicle may be left parked on any street, public right-of-way, or other public property…

Louisville Metro requires publicly owned EV charging stations open to the public to charge users for power, covering at…

Kentucky law presumes any vehicle left on a county road or city street for three consecutive days to be abandoned…

A disabled vehicle can't sit on a Boone County road shoulder more than 24 hours, and once a towed vehicle sits…

Lexington-Fayette's nuisance code makes it unlawful to keep a junked, wrecked, unlicensed or inoperative vehicle on any…

Louisville Metro deems a vehicle abandoned after three days parked in one spot with a warning tag, and any junked…

McCracken County Code § 110.13(A) declares the outdoor storage of junk motor vehicles, parts, and unused machinery a…

In the City of Owensboro, a junked motor vehicle on public or private property, occupied or not, improved or not, is a…

The City of Bowling Green bars parking an abandoned or junk motor vehicle on any City street for more than three days…

Campbell County zoning bars storing any inoperable motor vehicle outdoors on a lot in any zone unless it sits inside a…

Parking an inoperable motor vehicle outdoors, or more than one unlicensed vehicle, on a Daviess County lot under an…

In unincorporated Franklin County, Kentucky, § 91.03 bars anyone in charge of commercial or residential property from…

In unincorporated Jessamine County, Kentucky, a motor vehicle or boat left in a dilapidated or apparently inoperable…

Kenton County Code § 91.02 bans keeping a dilapidated or inoperable motor vehicle on private property for more than…

In unincorporated Oldham County, Kentucky, no owner, lessee, tenant or occupant may let a partially dismantled…

Louisville Metro paints curb faces solid yellow to mark no-parking zones, and parking against a yellow curb is banned…

In the City of Owensboro, no vehicle may park at any time on a street where the curb is painted yellow or where signs…

Bowling Green restricts marked loading zones to commercial or combination-plate vehicles actively loading or unloading…

Commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings in unincorporated Campbell County must provide dedicated off-street…

In unincorporated Franklin County, Kentucky, every zoning district except residential districts must provide one…

Lexington-Fayette bans truck parking in central-district loading zones between 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. unless posted…

Louisville Metro caps loading zone use at 30 minutes and requires flashers on, with the Director of Public Works…

In the City of Owensboro, loading zones may reserve no more than half a block's total curb length within the central…

Where LFUCG's urban county council has designated a residential parking permit area and posted signs, only vehicles…

Louisville Metro lets neighborhoods petition PARC to create a Residential Parking Zone, restricting on-street parking…

Campbell County Code § 72.07 lets the Judge/Executive declare a three-level snow emergency after consulting the County…

When the County Judge/Executive declares a snow emergency in Kenton County and accumulation reaches two inches or more…

When the mayor declares a Stage 3 snow emergency, Lexington-Fayette bans all parking on designated snow emergency…

When the Mayor declares a snow emergency, parking is banned on designated snow emergency routes across Louisville…

In the City of Owensboro, the mayor or city manager may declare a weather-related emergency and put the city's…

When Boone County declares a snow emergency, parking on any county road right-of-way is banned outright once…

The Director of Public Works can declare a snow emergency in Bowling Green for up to 96 hours at a time and restrict…

If you reach your car while it is being towed from a private lot in Kentucky, KRS 281.924(5) requires the towing…

Louisville Metro impounds vehicles at its own yard, the Vehicle Impoundment Division, and Chapter 72 of the…

Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government can tow a car off any street in Fayette County that carries outstanding…