Parking Rules in Louisiana (2026)

Lafayette City-Parish Code § 86-139 bans parking a vehicle equipped with living accommodations, a sink, stove…

Caddo Parish caps driveway RV and boat storage at three days under Unified Development Code Section 8.10. A…

The City-Parish limits residential RV, boat and trailer parking. Larger trucks and semitrailers with more than two…

The parish zoning code lets residents keep RVs and boats on their lot, but they must sit behind the front building line…

Lafayette City-Parish bans parking RVs, trailers, and boats over 22 feet on residential streets, except brief loading…

Lake Charles Code Sec. 23-6.1 requires boats stored on a city lot to sit in a garage or covered area. Boats kept…

Shreveport's Unified Development Code lets a recreational vehicle sit on a residential lot, but it cannot become a…

Unincorporated Ascension Parish requires every off-street parking area to be surfaced with a durable, dust-free…

Single-family, two-family, and townhouse lots in unincorporated Caddo Parish can only park vehicles in the driveway…

Under the Unified Development Code, single-family driveways, accesses and parking areas must be paved with concrete or…

Jefferson Parish bans parking, storing, or driving a vehicle on the unpaved or non-graveled part of a front yard at a…

Lafayette City-Parish lets homeowners surface driveways with shell, brick, stone, or aggregate instead of paving, but…

Lake Charles Code Sec. 23-6(c) requires front-yard vehicle parking on single-family and multi-family lots to sit in a…

Rapides Parish Code § 19¼-1 requires an off-street parking space at least 8½ feet wide and 20 feet long, reached by a…

Shreveport lets residential lots park only on a paved or clearly bordered permanent parking area within the front yard…

Within the zoned areas of Terrebonne Parish (the Houma area), off-street parking for a dwelling generally cannot sit in…

City Code § 23-6(c)(4) bans parking any commercial vehicle, defined as one exceeding one ton or having more than two…

New Orleans bans parking or storing trucks, semitrailers, buses, tow trucks, dump trucks, and similar large commercial…

Terrebonne Parish Code § 18-202 bars parking or leaving standing any truck tractor, semitrailer, boat, dump truck, tow…

Semi-tractors, buses, tow trucks, and other large commercial vehicles cannot be stored or parked outdoors overnight on…

Heavy commercial vehicles, commercial vans, trailers, and buses cannot park on any public street inside or bordering a…

Lafayette City-Parish Code § 86-138 bars parking vehicles longer than 22 feet, dual-rear-wheel trucks with commercial…

Sec. 14-5 bars tractor-trailers and commercial trucks over 30 feet in body length from seven named unincorporated…

Shreveport bans parking any bus, truck or trailer bigger than a three-quarter-ton pickup on residential…

Ascension Parish's home occupation standards, which apply in every zoning district in unincorporated Ascension Parish…

The Unified Development Code bars wreckers, buses, and trucks or semitrailers with more than two axles and payload over…

Lafayette City-Parish bans parking vehicles over 22 feet long, dual-rear-wheel commercial trucks, wreckers, and…

Residents on a subdivision street in unincorporated Ascension Parish who want a no-parking zone posted must petition…

You may not park on the grass between a residence and the street, block a driveway, or park on the left-hand side of a…

Jefferson Parish bans parking within three feet of a driveway's curb return or directly across from it on…

Lafayette City-Parish Code § 86-125 requires vehicles to park parallel, headed with traffic, within 18 inches of the…

Vehicles must park parallel to the curb, headed with traffic, wheels within 18 inches of the edge. Parking the wrong…

City Code § 20-75 requires every parked vehicle to sit parallel to the curb with wheels within 12 inches of it, on the…

New Orleans bans stopping or parking in eighteen specific locations without any sign required: within three feet of a…

Sec. 14-2 governs stopping, standing and parking on parish roads outside incorporated municipalities: vehicles must…

In unincorporated Rapides Parish, parking on a public road or street within a recognized subdivision is capped at one…

Shreveport prohibits parking in front of any public or private driveway, within an intersection, or alongside any curb…

In unincorporated St. Tammany Parish, Sec. 24-29 makes it unlawful to park or abandon any vehicle on a public street…

In unincorporated Tangipahoa Parish, drivers must pull off the traveled roadway when practicable, leave the street…

Terrebonne Parish limits how long and where a vehicle can sit on a public street: no more than 24 consecutive hours in…

Terrebonne Parish Code § 18-248 bars parking any vehicle over three tons or longer than twenty feet on a street within…

Parking a dual wheel axle vehicle overnight is unlawful on public roads outside Bossier Parish's incorporated towns and…

There is no blanket overnight ban on passenger cars, but a vehicle may sit on a residential street only up to nine…

Lafayette City-Parish Code § 86-137 bans parking any vehicle on a street for more than 24 consecutive hours. There's no…

Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government bans parking any vehicle on a street for more than 24 consecutive hours…

§ 20-81 bans parking between 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. on five named street segments, including parts of Chavanne, Peake…

On streets in recognized subdivisions outside incorporated towns, Rapides Parish caps parking at one hour, a limit that…

Shreveport sets no general overnight limit on parking a passenger car on a residential street. The restrictions target…

St. Tammany Parish bars leaving a vehicle parked or abandoned on any public street, highway or roadway in the…

Jefferson Parish has no nightly parking curfew; a vehicle can sit on a public street overnight or even all weekend. The…

Tangipahoa Parish sets no blanket overnight parking curfew in its Code; instead the parish council may designate…

New Orleans Code § 146-562 requires an operating permit before installing an EV charger in the public right-of-way…

Lafayette designates public on-street parking spaces exclusively for charging electric vehicles under Code § 86-176.22…

Lafayette Consolidated Government can designate public parking spaces reserved for electric vehicles at posted charging…

Caddo Parish's Unified Development Code permits electric-vehicle charging stations as an accessory use in every zoning…

Shreveport imposes no EV-charging mandate. The Unified Development Code affirmatively allows charging spaces in any…

Louisiana Revised Statutes Title 32, Chapter 5-A (R.S. 32:1711 et seq.) establish the statewide framework for removing…

Storing or abandoning a junked, wrecked, or inoperable vehicle on any property in unincorporated Ouachita Parish…

Shreveport gives wrecked or inoperable vehicles 48 hours on private property before they become an abatable nuisance…

Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government declares any junked or abandoned vehicle on public property, on another…

Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government declares junked or abandoned vehicles a public nuisance citywide and…

Article II of the nuisance chapter bans abandoned vehicles left on public property more than three days and junk or…

Ascension Parish bans abandoning vehicles on public property under Code § 20-2 and treats junked, wrecked, or…

Abandoning a motor vehicle on public or private property anywhere in unincorporated Bossier Parish is unlawful under…

Leaving a wrecked, damaged, or mechanically inoperative vehicle, or any junk from one, on a road right-of-way or…

It's a nuisance to keep an abandoned or inoperative vehicle on private property. After written notice, the owner has 15…

Jefferson Parish bans junked, derelict or abandoned vehicles on any street, right-of-way, or vacant or unused parish or…

City Code § 20-77 presumes a vehicle abandoned once it sits parked on a city street or public property for more than…

New Orleans defines an "abandoned vehicle" under City Code § 66-102 as one illegally parked, left inoperable and…

The Police Jury bans storing or abandoning vehicles within parish street and road rights-of-way. A posted notice gives…

Tangipahoa Parish bars leaving any motor vehicle on public property for more than 36 hours under Code § 32-49, and…

Terrebonne Parish Code Section 14-186 declares junked, abandoned or inoperative vehicles a nuisance parishwide. They…

Lafayette bars stopping, standing or parking anywhere the director or fire chief has had the roadway curb painted…

Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government bans stopping, standing, or parking anywhere the public works director or…

When Shreveport's fire chief or the state fire marshal designates a fire lane, the property owner where that lane sits…

Commercial and industrial structures in unincorporated Bossier Parish must provide off-street truck loading spaces…

Businesses that receive deliveries by truck in unincorporated Caddo Parish must provide off-street loading spaces under…

Baton Rouge marks curb loading zones with signs stating the hours they operate. Inside a passenger zone, stopping is…

Any hospital, hotel, or commercial building over 7,500 square feet that takes delivery trucks must build a permanent…

Lafayette City-Parish's traffic engineer, not a council vote, decides where curb space goes under Code § 86-101(c)…

Lafayette City-Parish limits marked passenger loading zones to three minutes for pickup or drop-off and freight zones…

New Orleans caps how long vehicles may sit in a signed loading, freight-only, or freight zone: delivery vehicles get 45…

Shreveport's traffic engineer designates passenger and commercial vehicle loading zones by ordinance and must post…

Terrebonne Parish designates freight zones on specific Houma-area streets for loading and unloading commercial…

Lafayette lets residents petition for a residential permit parking zone under Code § 86-162, letting the director bar…

Lafayette City-Parish lets residents petition for permit-only parking on their block once 70% of spaces are full…

Shreveport's downtown development authority runs five numbered permit parking zones where a valid monthly permit…

A tow company may not haul a car out of a Louisiana parking area unless a law enforcement agency authorized the tow…

Lafayette City-Parish sets no dollar towing rate of its own. Since Ord. No. JO-061-2022 the code caps every non-consent…

New Orleans can immobilize, tow and impound any unoccupied vehicle carrying an unpaid delinquent parking citation, and…