Parking Rules in Maryland (2026)

Prince George's County prohibits parking any watercraft on public County streets, roads, highways, or rights-of-way at…

Annapolis bans trailers, including boat trailers, from parking on any public street, lane or alley, and caps oversized…

Frederick bars parking an oversized motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer on a residential street. The line is 8 feet…

Anne Arundel County bans parking or storing any inoperable, unregistered, wrecked, or dismantled motor vehicle…

BCZR §§ 415A.1-415A.3 let a residential lot store one recreational vehicle or boat, never lived in, set back 2½ feet…

Recreational vehicles, campers, and boats may be parked or stored in Charles County residential zones only if not used…

Zoning caps how many recreational vehicles or trailers a household can keep on a residential lot, with the count set by…

Rockville limits where boats, trailers, campers, vans and RVs may sit on a residential lot: behind the front building…

Washington County's zoning ordinance allows a resident to park or store a recreational vehicle, trailer or boat in a…

In unincorporated Wicomico County, RVs, campers, boats and boat trailers may be parked or stored in A-1, V-C and…

Carroll County treats recreational vehicles and campers as an accessory use allowed in any zoning district under §…

Harford County bars parking a boat, recreational vehicle or trailer on any county road for more than 48 hours within…

Residential properties in Frederick must park on paved surfaces only; grass, mulch and other unpaved ground are…

Anne Arundel County requires driveways at least 9 feet wide, paved in concrete, blacktop, or approved material, with…

Baltimore County requires any vehicle parked on residential property to sit on a concrete, asphalt, or other durable…

Gaithersburg and Montgomery County regulate front-yard parking density and surfacing requirements. Front yard paving is…

In unincorporated Harford County, § 267-26A(4) of the zoning code lets residents park in garages, off-street lots, or…

Maryland law, enforced countywide by Howard County, prohibits parking in front of a private driveway without the…

In R-200, R-90, R-60, and R-40 zones, front and side-yard parking must sit on a surfaced pad, and that pad is capped at…

Prince George's County Code Section 26-127.04 bars stopping in front of a public driveway and standing or parking…

Rockville requires vehicles be parked on an improved street or an approved off-street area: parking over curbs…

In unincorporated Wicomico County's V-C and residential districts, no vehicle, operable or not, may be parked in a…

Prince George's County restricts heavy commercial trucks (over 10,000 pounds) from parking on County streets overnight…

Annapolis bars parking any vehicle over 16,000 pounds GVWR, or wider than 80 inches, or longer than 276 inches, on…

Harford County bans parking a commercial motor vehicle, or one for hire, on any public or platted private road…

Trucks over three-quarters ton, 10,000 lbs GVW, four wheels, or 96 inches wide can't park on residential streets…

Washington County, Maryland prohibits parking tractor-trailers, alone or in tandem, on any public or private street…

Trucks over 10,000 lbs GVW can't park on residential lots in Anne Arundel County except briefly for service calls or…

Baltimore County allows one commercial vehicle under 10,000 pounds per dwelling on a residential lot if the owner lives…

Carroll County caps how many commercial vehicles, defined as 10,000+ pound trucks or trailers, can park at a home under…

Cecil County bans parking a truck, trailer or other vehicle over 8,000 pounds gross vehicle weight on any public or…

Charles County bars parking heavy commercial vehicles, utility trailers and buses on any public road posted against…

Frederick bars commercial motor vehicles from any street posted with a sign prohibiting them, under Sec. 13-14 of the…

Gaithersburg City Code § 24-7.4(F) caps residential parking to one light commercial vehicle plus one recreational…

Howard County Code § 21.232 bans parking a commercial motor vehicle for more than six continuous hours on any highway…

Montgomery County caps how many light commercial vehicles and recreational vehicles can park on a residential lot, with…

In unincorporated Wicomico County, a commercial vehicle under 15,000 pounds gross vehicle weight may park overnight in…

Annapolis requires vehicles to park facing the direction of travel, within twelve inches of the curb, and clear of…

Anne Arundel County Code § 12-3-102 bars parking in front of driveways, within 15 feet of hydrants, in intersections…

Baltimore County follows Maryland's statewide parking prohibitions. You may not stop, stand, or park on a sidewalk or…

Carroll County bans parking wherever a traffic control device forbids it, in fire lanes on property open to the public…

Unincorporated Cecil County enforces posted time limits on parking through § 359-10 of the Vehicles, Traffic and…

Charles County bans stopping, standing or parking in front of driveways, on sidewalks, within 20 feet of intersections…

Frederick's core 'Improper parking' rule bans stopping, standing or parking anywhere it blocks traffic, driveways…

Gaithersburg regulates street parking through Chapter 14 of the city code and a Residential Permit Parking program…

Harford County's Section 244-17.1 sets baseline on-street parking rules: no blocking a public driveway, standing within…

Howard County Code § 21.221 bans stopping, standing, or parking in 20 specific places, from blocking a driveway to…

County law bars parking within 5 feet of a driveway opening and sets specific street-parking prohibitions, including…

Prince George's County Code Section 26-127.04 lists where stopping, standing, and parking are prohibited on County…

Rockville bans parking on sidewalks and within 5 feet of any driveway, plus a long list of other stopping/standing…

Washington County, Maryland forbids stopping, standing, or parking a vehicle so as to impede traffic or threaten public…

In unincorporated Wicomico County, Wicomico County Code § 197-19 bars stopping, standing or parking where an official…

Baltimore County's zoning code bars parking a commercial vehicle over 10,000 pounds on a residential lot longer than…

Leaving any vehicle parked on a Frederick street or public way for more than 48 hours straight is a violation under…

Gaithersburg bans leaving any vehicle parked continuously for more than 48 hours on a street, highway, public parking…

Montgomery County prohibits parking any motor vehicle or trailer on a public highway, road, or street for more than 24…

Prince George's County has no blanket overnight ban on residential streets, but Section 26-122 prohibits leaving any…

Maryland law restricts homeowner associations from prohibiting EV charging stations on members' property and requires…

Rockville's Energy Conservation Code requires new R-2 multi-family buildings to make 10% of parking spaces fully…

Annapolis reserves marked plug-in electric vehicle charging spaces exclusively for plug-in electric vehicles; parking a…

Anne Arundel County requires one electric vehicle charging station for every 50 required parking spaces at multifamily…

Under Maryland law applied in Baltimore County, only a plug-in electric drive vehicle that is plugged into charging…

New single-family houses, duplexes and townhomes built in Charles County with a garage, carport or driveway must…

City-owned parking lots in Frederick may post signage reserving spaces solely for plug-in electric vehicles that are…

Howard County's Building Code requires new houses, townhouses, condos and rental buildings to be built EV-ready…

Any Montgomery County parking facility built after May 12, 2014 with 100 or more spaces, including new apartment and…

Prince George's County Code Section 26-127.05 reserves signed electric-vehicle charging spaces on public and private…

In unincorporated Harford County, property owners may install electric vehicle charging stations inside the required…

Gaithersburg requires EV charging pre-wiring in new residential construction. Maryland law effective October 2022…

Maryland Transportation Article Title 25 Subtitle 2 establishes uniform procedures for identifying, removing, storing…

Prince George's County Code Section 26-162 prohibits leaving any abandoned vehicle anywhere in the County. A vehicle is…

Rockville bans keeping a junk vehicle anywhere in the city unless it sits in a lawfully licensed junkyard, under its…

Annapolis bans wrecked, junked, or dismantled vehicles on streets, public property, and private lots; owners may keep…

Anne Arundel County bans abandoning a motor vehicle anywhere in the county, including unincorporated communities like…

Under Maryland law applied in Baltimore County, a vehicle left inoperable on public property over 48 hours, or on…

Carroll County Code § 7-101 lets any county law enforcement officer impound, remove, and sell a motor vehicle abandoned…

Cecil County makes it unlawful to leave an unlicensed junk motor vehicle, or parts of one, on private or public…

Charles County limits every lot to one untagged or inoperable motor vehicle, which must sit on a hard surface, be…

Frederick limits property owners to keeping just one unregistered or inoperable vehicle, and it must be fully covered…

Gaithersburg's Property Maintenance Code bars storing a dismantled, inoperative, unregistered, or unplated motor…

A vehicle is abandoned once it sits inoperable or unattended on public property, or on private property without the…

Montgomery County bars storing an inoperable or unregistered vehicle on residential property past 30 days and bans…

Washington County, Maryland bars parking an unregistered motor vehicle or unregistered trailer on any county highway…

An abandoned vehicle left on public or private property in unincorporated Wicomico County is a declared public nuisance…

Annapolis bars parking next to any curb marked with a red line, carrying a $300 fine and towing under City Code §…

A Baltimore County business or apartment building that wins a Traffic Engineer permit for a no-parking loading zone…

Howard County's Fire Prevention Code lets the Authority Having Jurisdiction, the Department of Fire and Rescue…

Prince George's County restricts parking through official signs and pavement markings rather than a color-coded curb…

A curb painted yellow by the County, State, or City bans parking, standing, or stopping alongside it anywhere in…

Montgomery County bars heavy commercial vehicles and buses from residential streets under County Code Section 31-14…

Annapolis lets a commercial vehicle stand curbside beside a parked car only between 7 a.m. and 11 a.m. to load or…

Anne Arundel County bars trucks over 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight from parking on any public road unless they're…

BCZR § 409.11 requires any commercial or industrial building to provide adequate off-street space for loading and…

Carroll County requires at least one off street loading space for any building of 10,000 square feet or more, with an…

Frederick's loading and unloading zones cap authorized vehicles at 20 minutes, whether during morning short-term hours…

In unincorporated Harford County, any commercial use that regularly receives deliveries must build off-street loading…

Howard County's curb loading zones, created and signed by the Department of Public Works, cap standing time at 30…

In Prince George's County the Director designates loading zones and passenger loading zones and posts signs stating…

Rockville bars delivery and loading operations between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. on any property next to a residential…

In unincorporated Wicomico County, manufacturing, warehouse and wholesale buildings, hospitals, shopping centers and…

Washington County's zoning code requires every off-street loading area to be designed for the delivery vehicles it…

Rockville divides the City into permit parking zones; residents petition with 51% of households, or the Council can…

Annapolis creates numbered Special Residential Parking Districts by City Council ordinance; only residents whose…

Baltimore County designates residential permit parking areas under Code Sections 18-2-402 and 18-2-403 when 65% of…

Harford County issues residential parking permits under Section 244-23 to residents on county streets with…

Montgomery County runs a Residential Permit Parking (RPP) program under COMCOR 31.48.01, restricting on-street parking…

Prince George's County lets residents petition to turn their street into a Residential Parking Permit Area, restricting…

Wicomico County Code § 197-25 lets the Department of Public Works designate residential streets as permit parking areas…

When Howard County's Director of Public Works declares a snow emergency, parking is banned outright on every highway…

Montgomery County bans parking on designated snow emergency routes during declared snow emergencies, requires snow…

Parking is banned on designated snow emergency routes once the Director of Public Works declares Phase II or Phase III…

Once the state's Superintendent of State Police declares a snow emergency, parking on any posted snow emergency route…

When snow or ice accumulation threatens to block emergency vehicles, the Mayor may declare a snow emergency under Sec…

Once the city manager declares a snow emergency, Gaithersburg bars unattended parking on any snow emergency route or…

When Harford County's Director of Public Works declares a snow emergency, parking is banned on every posted snow…

Once the Director of Public Works designates a road as a snow emergency route and posts it, parking there is banned…

When the City Manager declares a snow emergency, cars without driveway space must move to the even-numbered side of the…

Baltimore County Code Section 18-3-102(e) lets the Director of Public Works and Transportation develop a snow emergency…

Cecil County's snow and ice removal chapter puts the Department of Public Works' Roads Division in charge of clearing…

Maryland Transportation Article Title 21, Subtitle 10A governs nonconsensual towing from a parking lot, defined as a…

Montgomery County sets its own maximum trespass towing rates by executive regulation, so a car towed from private…

Annapolis sets its own towing ceiling rather than leaving it to Anne Arundel County. Section 7.52.120.B states that a…