Parking Rules in Massachusetts (2026)

Boston's dense urban streets severely limit RV and oversized vehicle parking. Commercial vehicle overnight parking is…

Lowell Code of Ordinances sec. 266-73.1 prohibits parking any recreational vehicle, auto home, mobile home, boat…

Quincy, Massachusetts (Norfolk County) excludes trailers, campers, boats and other nonmotorized recreational equipment…

Revere bars parking commercial vehicles, mobile homes, recreational vehicles and boat trailers on any city street…

Springfield bans storing any mobile home, travel trailer, RV, or boat in a residential front yard, and bars any of them…

In the City of Chicopee, boats, trailers and campers cannot sit on a public street for more than 48 hours. A…

In the City of Everett, Massachusetts, Zoning Section 16 bars parking or storing a trailer or mobile home on dwelling…

Fall River bars parking campers, mobile homes, boats and trailers on any public way when doing so blocks emergency…

In the City of Haverhill, boats, pickup campers, trailers and recreational vehicles cannot sit on any public way or…

Lawrence makes it unlawful to park a house trailer, boat trailer, or any other trailer lacking its own motive power on…

Leominster lets residential properties store boats and boat trailers as an accessory use under Leominster Code of…

Lynn's zoning ordinance bars storing an unregistered, uninsured, or inoperable boat, trailer, camper, or RV in a front…

In the City of Medford, Massachusetts, an unregistered or inoperable RV, boat, trailer or camper cannot be stored in…

In the City of Methuen, Massachusetts, no front yard may be used for the open storage of boats, vehicles, travel…

New Bedford bans leaving a boat trailer, utility trailer, or camper unattended on a public way or city property under §…

Newton lets homeowners keep a recreational trailer or boat in a residential yard by right, but placement is restricted…

Somerville allows only one recreational vehicle, boat, or utility trailer stored outside per dwelling lot, and it must…

Worcester bars parking recreational vehicles like boats, campers and motor homes, plus heavy commercial vehicles…

Taunton allows only one utility trailer per residentially utilized lot, and that trailer can't sit in the front yard…

In the City of Everett, Massachusetts, no one can build, extend or alter a driveway without a driveway permit under…

Boston fines residents who park cars in a required front, side or rear yard of a home in a residential zoning district…

Cambridge's Zoning Ordinance bars on-grade open parking from a lot's required front yard setback and forces every…

Chelsea bans parking in a required front yard outright unless the zoning board of appeals grants a special permit, and…

Framingham bars storing an unregistered, unsightly car or truck in a residential front yard under City Code § 357-1…

In Haverhill, homeowners with one-, two- or three-family houses can only park in the front yard within the driveway or…

Leominster limits residential lots to two driveways per street line and requires every driveway to stay at least three…

Lynn's Zoning Ordinance sets driveway width by use: a minimum of 9 feet for single- and two-family homes and 12 feet…

New driveways in Medford, Massachusetts residential districts need a permit from the city engineer before construction…

In the City of Methuen, Massachusetts, an unregistered car, truck or trailer cannot be parked ungaraged in a…

New Bedford bars open-air parking in front of a home in residential districts, with a narrow exception for a driveway…

Quincy bars parking any registered vehicle in the front yard between a house's front wall and the lot line unless it's…

Every driveway and parking area in Revere subject to vehicle or foot traffic must be paved with bituminous concrete or…

Somerville's zoning ordinance requires driveways to be paved with permeable materials like paving stones, grass pavers…

Southborough requires required parking and vehicular use areas to be paved with bituminous concrete, with one…

Springfield's zoning caps residential garage size, limits driveway or garage storage to one commercial vehicle, and…

Taunton's Zoning Ordinance requires every parking and loading surface to be graded and subsurfaced with a nondusting…

Boston prohibits overnight street parking of commercial vehicles and requires Boston-Based Business Permits for local…

Lowell Code sec. 266-73.1 prohibits on-street parking of any commercial vehicle (as defined in 540 CMR 2.05, including…

Medford's zoning code bars overnight parking of any commercial vehicle over 15,000 pounds gross vehicle weight in the…

New Bedford bans parking any vehicle needing more than a Class D license, plus every tow truck, within residence zones…

Commercial vehicles over 2.5 tons cannot park overnight on Somerville residential streets. Loading zones are…

Chelsea bars heavy commercial vehicles with a carrying capacity of more than 2½ tons from more than twenty named…

In the City of Everett, Massachusetts, Section 18-139(d) bars any vehicle or trailer with six wheels or more, or any…

The City of Framingham bars any commercial vehicle or trailer of one ton or more from parking or standing on a public…

In the City of Haverhill, commercial trucks and commercial vehicles 24 feet or longer or weighing three tons (6,000…

Lawrence prohibits parking or leaving standing any commercial vehicle with a manufacturer's GVWR of 10,000 pounds or…

Revere bans overnight parking of commercial vehicles, trailers, RVs, mobile homes, boat trailers and…

Attleboro regulates commercial vehicle parking through its traffic ordinances and zoning code. Service zone loading is…

Commercial vehicle parking in Bristol County is regulated at the municipal level. Individual towns may restrict…

Brockton restricts parking of large commercial vehicles in residential areas. Heavy trucks and equipment must be stored…

Brookline issues commercial parking permits for $600/year allowing parking on designated residential side streets…

In the City of Chicopee, a motor vehicle of 26,001 pounds or more, or longer than 24 feet, cannot park on a city street…

Fall River bars parking commercial vehicles or trailers of two tons or more on city streets for more than an hour…

Leominster bars commercial vehicles carrying more than two and one-half tons from Harvard Street and Stagecoach Road…

Any property running a home occupation in Lynn may park no more than one commercial vehicle overnight, and that vehicle…

In the City of Methuen, Massachusetts, § 5.11 of the Methuen Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance permits not more than one…

Newton bars oversized commercial vehicles from residence districts outright and, for the smaller commercial vehicles it…

Plymouth County towns restrict commercial-vehicle parking in residential zones by bylaw, but MGL c.40 §22 protects…

Quincy's zoning ordinance caps off-street commercial vehicle parking in residence districts by weight: one vehicle…

In Southborough's Residence A and Residence B Districts, accessory private garage or parking for not more than three…

Springfield bars commercial trucks from crossing named streets, including Pine Street and Thompson Street, capped at…

Taunton limits residential lots to one commercial-use vehicle at a time, capped at 7,000 pounds actual vehicle weight…

Weymouth's all-night parking ban under §13-103(g) applies to all vehicles including commercial vehicles. No specific…

Worcester restricts heavy commercial vehicle parking in residential areas. Semi-trucks, large construction equipment…

Boston operates a robust Resident Parking Permit program at no cost, with neighborhood-specific permits and active…

City Code Section 12-71 bars parking within intersections, on sidewalks or crosswalks, within 20 feet of a cross…

Chelsea bars parking within 20 feet of an intersection, in front of a driveway plus two feet on either side, or more…

In the City of Chicopee, Massachusetts, § 260-17 bars standing or parking on a sidewalk, within five feet of a marked…

In the City of Everett, Massachusetts, Section 18-131 bars parking in an intersection, on a sidewalk or crosswalk…

Fall River, Massachusetts bans parking on one-way streets against the flow of traffic, requires wheels within six…

In the City of Framingham, parking in front of a private driveway or against the flow of traffic on a one-way street is…

City Code § 240-20 bars parking anywhere in the City of Haverhill that would block traffic, obstruct pedestrians or…

Lawrence bars parking in thirteen specific situations citywide: intersections, sidewalks and crosswalks, within ten…

Leominster bans parking within twenty feet of an intersection, ten feet of a fire hydrant, in front of any driveway or…

On-street parking in Lowell is regulated by Code of Ordinances Chapter 266 (Vehicles and Traffic), which sets…

Lynn posts resident-permit parking on many streets, $20 per vehicle, up to four per household, and clears every public…

On private ways open to public right-of-access, Revised Ordinances § 78-147 bars parking that blocks a driveway, sits…

New Bedford makes it unlawful to leave any vehicle in a street or public place so it obstructs travel, once the driver…

Street parking across Plymouth County is regulated by each town under MGL c.40 §22, which authorizes local parking…

Quincy's traffic code bars standing or parking within intersections, on sidewalks or crosswalks, within 10 feet of a…

Revere bars parking within three feet of a driveway, within ten feet of a fire hydrant, within twenty feet of an…

Somerville bans parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk, in front of any driveway plus two feet on each side, and…

Southborough's Select Board regulations bar parking on sidewalks and crosswalks, within 10 feet of a fire hydrant, in…

Taunton bars parking in front of driveways, within 20 feet of a crosswalk or intersection, within 10 feet of a fire…

Worcester bans parking that blocks driveways, faces the wrong way on one-way streets, or sits more than twelve inches…

Boston requires a resident parking permit to park on most residential streets 6 PM to 8 AM. Snow emergencies trigger…

Many Norfolk County towns enforce overnight parking bans. Quincy bans 1-6 AM year-round (no permit option). Brookline…

Chelsea requires a digital residential permit to park on any city street between midnight and 5:00 a.m., seven nights a…

In the City of Everett, Massachusetts, Section 18-139(f) bars any vehicle that is not validly registered in the City of…

In the City of Haverhill, City Code § 240-24 bars parking any registered vehicle on a public street for more than one…

Lynn's Zoning Ordinance defines 'truck parking' as an accessory use for overnight storage of any commercial vehicle…

Revere requires a resident parking sticker to park on most city streets overnight. Under the city's Schedule IX…

Springfield has no standing nightly parking ban; instead, once the Mayor declares a snow-and-ice emergency, the Police…

Trucks, trailers, tractors, tractor-trailers and campers cannot park on any Taunton street between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00…

New Bedford and Fall River ban on-street overnight parking during declared winter snow emergencies. Taunton has no…

The City of Framingham bars parking a registered vehicle on a public street for more than two hours between 1:00 a.m…

Lawrence bars overnight parking between 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. on specific stretches of Ames Street and Medford…

Certain Leominster streets ban overnight parking outright. Section 13-24.5 of the Code of Ordinances bans parking on…

Lowell has no blanket year-round overnight street-parking ban for passenger cars, but Code sec. 266-74 bars long-term…

Quincy requires a $20 resident parking permit to park on-street for more than two hours between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m., and…

In Southborough, no vehicle may be parked on any street for longer than one hour between 1:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. of any…

Massachusetts adopts statewide EV-readiness requirements under the State Building Code (780 CMR) and Stretch Energy…

Boston's Zoning Code treats electric vehicle charging as an accessory parking use, but caps it at four Direct Current…

Cambridge's Zoning Ordinance treats publicly-accessible, privately-owned electric vehicle charging as a listed…

In the City of Everett, Massachusetts (Middlesex County), Section 37 of the Zoning Ordinance treats an accessory…

New or redeveloped Lynn parking lots with 15 or more spaces must wire at least 25% of spaces for Level 2 EV charging…

In the City of Methuen, Massachusetts, Level 1 and Level 2 electric vehicle chargers are permitted outright as an…

Newton's Sustainable Development Design ordinance requires that qualifying new construction wire at least 10% of…

Somerville's zoning ordinance does not mandate EV charging in ordinary parking lots citywide. It does require large…

Worcester reserves signed municipal EV charging spaces for electric vehicles that are actively charging. Parking a gas…

Medford requires developers of covered nonresidential and multi-unit projects to incorporate vehicle charging…

Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 90 Section 22C governs removal and disposal of abandoned motor vehicles statewide…

Lawrence Code of Ordinances Section 9.08.030 prohibits storing any dismantled, wrecked, or junked vehicle in the open…

In the City of Haverhill, storing a dismantled, wrecked, junked or inoperative vehicle, or discarded auto parts, out in…

Massachusetts law allows removal of vehicles abandoned on public ways after 72 hours. Boston enforces through its…

Brockton bars keeping a dismantled, wrecked or junked vehicle on any property for more than 72 hours, and limits…

Cambridge Code Section 10.08.010 bars leaving a car, truck or motorcycle on any public or private way, or on any…

Abandoned vehicles on public ways subject to state law MGL c. 90 §22C (72-hour threshold). Chelsea enforces through its…

In the City of Chicopee, Massachusetts, no one in control of real property can leave an abandoned, disassembled or…

In the City of Everett, Massachusetts, Section 13A-63.1 bars parking, storing or abandoning a wrecked, dismantled or…

Fall River, Massachusetts bars anyone from keeping a dismantled, unserviceable, junked or abandoned vehicle, or one…

MGL c. 90, §22C: abandoned vehicles on public ways tagged after 72 hours, may be towed. Fitchburg Police enforce. Snow…

Framingham City Code § 357-1 caps residential-district property at one unregistered, ungaraged car or truck at a time…

Leominster's Code of Ordinances Sec. 13-91 bans abandoning any vehicle on a city street or highway and bars leaving a…

Lynn tows vehicles left unattended on a public street for more than 72 hours, or that are unregistered, uninspected…

In the City of Medford, Massachusetts, no one may keep a junk motor vehicle, boat, trailer, camper or recreational…

In the City of Methuen, Massachusetts, § 5.10 of the Methuen Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance bars the ungaraged parking…

New Bedford makes it unlawful to abandon a motor vehicle on any highway, or, if publicly visible, on private property…

Norfolk County does not handle abandoned vehicles. MGL c. 90B §2 allows police to remove abandoned vehicles after 72…

A vehicle apparently abandoned and left more than 72 hours on any way or property in Plymouth County may be taken and…

Quincy, Massachusetts (Norfolk County) prohibits abandoning vehicles citywide, bans wrecked or junked vehicles from…

Abandoned vehicles on Revere's public ways governed by state law MGL c. 90 §22C (72-hour rule). Revere's active…

Under MGL c.90 s.22D and city rules, Somerville can tow vehicles left unmoved more than 72 hours, or any unregistered…

Southborough bars anyone from abandoning a vehicle or leaving one where it reasonably appears abandoned. No partially…

Springfield fines anyone who abandons a registered or unregistered vehicle on a public or private way, or on someone…

MGL c. 90, §22C: abandoned vehicles on public ways tagged after 72 hours, may be towed. Worcester Police and DPW…

Only curb paint authorized by Somerville's Traffic Commission and approved in writing by the Massachusetts Highway…

In Southborough, a curb marking is official only when the Select Board has authorized the painting and the state…

In the City of Framingham, only curb markings authorized by the Traffic Commission and approved in writing by the…

In the City of Haverhill, curb markings only count as official under City Code § 240-1 if the Chief of Police has…

Springfield, MA requires a Traffic Commission permit and a per-foot curb fee before any business can reserve public…

Parking in a marked Boston loading zone draws a $90 fine per violation, rising with an $18 late penalty if unpaid…

Commercial vehicles may park in a Brockton metered space without depositing a coin for up to thirty minutes while…

Cambridge's Zoning Ordinance requires enclosed loading bays near residential districts for night-operating businesses…

Only commercial vehicles may stop in a marked Chelsea commercial loading zone, and even they must clear it within 30…

In the City of Chicopee, Massachusetts, no vehicle can park in a street service zone longer than 15 minutes, except…

In the City of Everett, Massachusetts, only commercial vehicles actually engaged in loading and unloading can park in a…

Fall River bans parking in designated loading zones except for active loading or unloading capped at 30 minutes, under…

In the City of Framingham, a vehicle may not park in a designated service zone for more than 15 minutes under City Code…

Haverhill requires commercial buildings to provide off-street loading docks sized under City Code § 6.1.6: the first…

Lawrence caps parking in a designated service zone at 15 minutes under Code of Ordinances § 10.32.110, unless the…

Leominster limits parking in a designated service zone to fifteen minutes, extending to thirty minutes only while a…

Every nonresidential building in Lynn that's built, enlarged or altered has to provide adequate off-street loading…

Medford's noise performance standards let the Community Development Board restrict loading, unloading, and container…

In the City of Methuen, Massachusetts, every required off-street loading space must be at least 12 feet wide and 14…

New Bedford lets commercial vehicles sit in a metered space without feeding the meter for up to thirty minutes, but…

Newton requires off-street loading bays for new buildings and for additions of 5,000 square feet or more of gross floor…

Quincy caps loading and unloading passengers to three minutes at curbs near schools, churches, theaters, hotels, and…

Revere calls its curbside loading areas 'service zones' and limits parking there to fifteen minutes, extending to…

A vehicle actively loading or unloading in a marked Somerville service zone can stay up to 30 minutes under Traffic…

Southborough handles on-street loading through service zones. Under § 207-14 no one can park in a service zone longer…

Taunton limits parking in a marked service or loading zone to 15 minutes under § 405-48, unless you're actually loading…

Worcester designates curb loading zones by city council vote under Chapter 13, Sections 45 and 46. Passenger zones…

Boston restricts on-street parking inside designated Residential Parking Districts (RPDs) to vehicles displaying a…

In the City of Everett, Massachusetts, the Traffic, Safety and Parking Commission designates residential parking…

Revere runs a city-wide resident parking sticker program under Chapter 10.34 that reserves overnight street parking for…

Springfield, Massachusetts lets the City Council designate residential streets as restricted parking districts; only…

Lawrence restricts on-street parking on dozens of named blocks to vehicles carrying a resident sticker under Municipal…

Somerville residents whose vehicle is registered and garaged in the city can get a residential parking permit plus two…

Streets posted "resident parking only" in Worcester require a valid resident sticker under Chapter 13, Section 40…

Boston can tow any vehicle that interferes with plowing or snow removal from a street under Code of Ordinances §…

When the Director of Public Works declares a snow emergency because of threatening weather or plow-blocking parked…

In the City of Haverhill, the Superintendent of Highways can declare a snow emergency banning parking for 48 hours on…

When Leominster's mayor declares a snow emergency, on-street parking becomes unlawful citywide for forty-eight hours…

Revere's superintendent of public works can declare a snow emergency whenever weather threatens travel, fuel, medical…

When Somerville's DPW Commissioner declares a snow emergency, parking is banned citywide on the even-address side of…

When Springfield's Mayor declares a snow emergency, the Police Chief can bar parking citywide or restrict cars to…

When the Mayor declares a snow emergency, Taunton bans parking on affected streets to clear the way for plowing…

Worcester's winter parking ban runs December through April (March for most zones) and triggers a 2 a.m. to 6 a.m…

When ice or snow removal work requires it, Brockton's superintendent of streets can have the chief of police tow any…

In the City of Chicopee, severe weather parking regulations take effect only when the Mayor announces them at the…

In the City of Everett, Massachusetts, the chief of police announces a snow or weather emergency, and Section 18-144…

When a storm threatens travel or emergency services, Fall River's Mayor or Director of Community Maintenance can…

In the City of Framingham, the Director of Public Works may tow any vehicle that blocks plowing or snow and ice removal…

When Lawrence's mayor declares a snow emergency, the Winter Parking Ordinance flips on citywide: cars on listed streets…

Lynn's zoning ordinance doesn't just require off-street parking lots to exist, it requires them to stay usable in…

Quincy, Massachusetts (Norfolk County) enforces odd/even side parking during declared snow emergencies and requires a…

In Southborough, the Superintendent of Streets can remove any vehicle that interferes with snow plowing or ice removal…

Massachusetts caps what a tow company can charge you after a nonconsensual tow. Under 220 CMR 272.03(1) the maximum…

Quincy police tow from § 325-83 tow-away zones by order of the Chief of Police or a designated sergeant, and the City…