Parking Rules in Michigan (2026)

In the City of Battle Creek, Michigan, Section 1261.02 declares the parking or storage of a recreational vehicle or…

Farmington Hills bans outdoor storage of unlicensed RVs, boats, campers and trailers in residential zones unless kept…

Rochester Hills lets residents store their own RVs, boats and trailers in a side or rear yard, but never in a front…

City Code § 692-2B keeps trailer coaches out of the front yard between the setback line and the property line in every…

Warren bars parking or storing any recreational vehicle, boat, trailer, or snowmobile in a residential front or side…

Clinton Township allows up to two recreational vehicles, boats, or trailers per residential lot under Section…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, Sec. 32-806 lets residents keep a recreational vehicle, boat, or trailer only if it's…

Detroit limits RVs, trailers and boats in residential yards to the garage or rear yard, caps counts, and sets a…

Flint restricts parking of travel trailers, campers, motor homes and boat trailers on residential property to specific…

Grand Rapids limits residential lots to one 25-foot recreational vehicle, generally stored in the rear yard, with…

In the City of Kalamazoo, City Code § 50-7.2(B)(2)(c) lets homeowners store trailers, motor homes, boats, and similar…

Lansing limits residential lots to two recreational vehicles or boats, requires oversized units on a paved driveway or…

Livonia's Zoning Ordinance lets homeowners store one unit of recreational equipment, RVs, boats, or trailers, in the…

Pontiac bans parking motor homes, pickup campers, trailer coaches and other recreational equipment on residential…

Sterling Heights limits RVs, boats and utility trailers in residential yards to specific setback distances, driveway…

Troy limits outdoor RV and boat storage in single-family districts to 48 hours unless the vehicle sits fully enclosed…

West Bloomfield Township confines unenclosed RV, trailer and recreational-unit storage on residential lots to a…

Westland keeps boats, campers, and RVs off residential lawns and easements and bans them in front of the front building…

Wyoming, Michigan bans parking or storing recreational vehicles, boats and trailers on public streets, rights-of-way or…

City Code § 36-186 makes it a public nuisance to park, store or leave any motor vehicle on an unapproved surface at a…

City Code § 114-70 bars off-street parking anywhere in a residential front yard in the City of Pontiac except inside an…

In the City of Royal Oak, every parking lot, maneuvering aisle, driveway, and loading area must be hard-surfaced with…

In the City of Battle Creek, Michigan, Section 1261.02 allows front-yard automobile parking only on an improved…

Clinton Township requires every residential off-street parking space to be a paved driveway, garage, or combination of…

Dearborn's traffic code bars parking on lawns or unpaved ground on both public and private property, closing off the…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, off-street parking at single-family and two-family homes must use a parking strip…

Detroit limits residential off-street parking to garages, one approved side-yard driveway, or a paved rear-yard pad…

Flint bans parking any vehicle in a residential lot's setback area, the front or side yard, unless the vehicle sits on…

Grand Rapids bans parking motor vehicles anywhere in a residential front yard and requires driveways to be surfaced…

Lansing requires off-street parking areas and driveways to be paved with concrete or asphalt; gravel is allowed only as…

Every parking area and driveway covered by Livonia's Zoning Ordinance must be hard-surfaced regardless of size, with…

Rochester Hills bans front-yard parking for single-family and two-family homes outside of a driveway or garage…

In the Charter Township of Royal Oak, Michigan, parking spaces in single-family districts consist of a parking strip…

Southfield requires residential off-street parking to consist of a parking strip, driveway or garage, or a combination…

Sterling Heights requires single-family driveways to be poured concrete or another approved hard surface: unpaved…

In the City of Taylor, Michigan, recreational vehicles and utility trailers cannot sit in a front or side yard, must be…

Troy's Zoning Ordinance allows off-street parking, including driveways, in a home's front yard, but Section 13.06…

Every driveway in Warren must be hardsurfaced, connecting a required off-street parking space to a street or alley for…

West Bloomfield Township prohibits parking or storing a motor vehicle or recreational unit directly on a residential…

Westland's zoning ordinance bans parking in a required front yard beyond 40 percent of that yard's area and requires…

Home driveways in the City of Wyoming, Michigan must be paved and at least eight feet wide under Zoning Ordinance Sec…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, Sec. 32-816 limits everyday street parking to automobiles, motorcycles, light pickups…

City Code § 114-162 bans parking a commercial vehicle, bus, taxicab, trailer, motor home or similar rig on any…

In the Charter Township of Royal Oak, Michigan, § 26-77 bars commercial vehicles, construction equipment, mobile…

Wyoming, Michigan bars parking or storing any vehicle over three-quarters-ton load capacity that isn't primarily a…

Battle Creek, Michigan bars trucks, truck tractors, trailer coaches, farm tractors, implements of husbandry and…

Dearborn bars commercial trucks and other commercial vehicles from parking on any city street or on private property in…

Detroit bans parking commercial vehicles, trailers, buses, motor homes, and recreational equipment on residential…

Flint bars parking or storing commercial vehicles, construction equipment, and trailers on public property citywide…

City Code § 36-163(D) bars parking any commercial vehicle, truck, trailer or equipment over 10,000 pounds gross weight…

Lansing zoning bars residential storage of any vehicle over 10,000 pounds gross weight, or exceeding 12 feet in height…

City of Novi Code § 33-617 bars parking a commercial vehicle weighing more than five thousand pounds on any residential…

Rochester Hills bans step vans, buses, dump trucks, semi trucks, wreckers and similar commercial trucks and equipment…

Recreational vehicles, boats, campers, and utility trailers can't sit on a Sterling Heights public street beyond 48…

Taylor bans parking any commercial vehicle over 10,000 pounds in a residential district or on a residential street…

Warren bans parking any truck, truck tractor, or truck trailer on a residential street entirely, not just overnight…

Ann Arbor caps parking of trucks and buses over 5,500 pounds or 22 feet on residential streets at 3 hours between 8…

Clinton Township caps commercial vehicle parking in residential areas at one truck rated no more than three-quarter…

Grand Rapids caps on-street parking for commercial vehicles over one ton at two hours, and limits angled loading or…

Livonia bans parking trucks over 4,000 pounds or 30 feet long, or any truck with a trailer attached, on residential…

Royal Oak caps residential commercial-vehicle parking at one truck per dwelling. City Code § 770-28 allows only one…

Troy bars parking a commercial vehicle, truck, or trailer on any residential street for more than one hour under…

West Bloomfield Township bars parking or storing non-passenger commercial trucks, such as delivery, dump, tow, garbage…

Westland bars parking or storing a commercial vehicle over 10,001 pounds GVWR in any residential or business district…

Sterling Heights, Michigan bans parking or storing any commercial vehicle or commercial equipment on public streets…

Wyoming, Michigan's zoning ordinance bars parking or storing any recreational vehicle, boat, trailer, or similar…

Ann Arbor City Code § 10:56 bans stopping or parking on sidewalks, in front of driveways or within 4 feet of each side…

Battle Creek, Michigan bars parking in designated individual or agency spaces, fire lanes and other posted safety…

Clinton Township bans parking in front of or across any driveway, public or private, and requires vehicles to park…

Dearborn requires every vehicle parked on a street to sit parallel and within 12 inches of the right-hand curb, which…

City Code § 32-537 bars parking in the City of Dearborn Heights on sidewalks, in front of driveways, within…

Detroit requires vehicles parked on public streets to sit parallel to the curb, curb-side wheels within 12 inches, with…

The City of Flint bans standing or parking in front of any public or private driveway, within fifteen (15) feet of a…

Street parking is regulated by the city, village, or township whose road it is, not by Genesee County. County roads are…

Grand Rapids bars parking in front of driveways and alleys, and separately lets the city restrict or prohibit parking…

In the City of Kalamazoo, City Code § 36-163 bans stopping, standing or parking in specific places on any street: on…

Lansing requires vehicles to park parallel to the roadway with their right-hand tires no more than 12 inches from the…

Livonia prohibits parking any motor vehicle in a front or side yard on residential property outside an approved…

Macomb County has no county-level street ordinance. State law MCL 257.674 sets the baseline on every street: no parking…

City of Novi Code § 33-502 bans parking in dozens of specific street locations, including in front of driveways, on…

In the City of Pontiac, City Code § 114-56 bans stopping, standing or parking in 22 specific spots: in front of…

Rochester Hills treats blocking a crosswalk, sidewalk, alley or drive, double parking, and other prohibited on-street…

Shelby caps on-street parking at 48 consecutive hours anywhere in the Village and bans parking entirely on First…

Southfield's traffic engineer can post no-parking signs on any street narrower than twenty feet across, or on one side…

In the City of Taylor, Michigan, Sec. 48-185 of the city code bars parking on sidewalks, in front of driveways, within…

Troy Code § 107.14 bars parking on private property without the owner's consent, parking on public property without the…

Warren bars commercial vehicles from parking on any city street for more than 30 minutes between 2:00 a.m. and 4:00…

Westland bans using a public street to park a vehicle for sale, repairs, advertising, or vending, restricting streets…

City of Kalamazoo City Code § 36-170(A) makes it unlawful to park any motor vehicle on a paved public street between…

On Lansing streets placed under a specified overnight parking restriction by traffic control order, only a City-issued…

In the City of Royal Oak, no one may park a trailer coach overnight on any street, alley, highway or other public place…

In the City of Southfield, no motor vehicle may be parked on any public street between 2:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. under…

Troy prohibits parking a house trailer overnight on any public highway, street, alley, park or other public place in…

Detroit bans parking on signed streets within a large no-parking zone bounded by the Detroit River and three freeways…

The City of Flint does not run an overnight-hours ban. Section 28-86 caps how long any vehicle, recreational vehicle or…

On streets marked as snow routes, Grand Rapids bans overnight parking from 3 a.m. to 6 a.m. between November 1 and…

Ottawa County bars overnight parking, defined as 11 p.m. to 6 a.m., in any County Parking Area, meaning courthouse…

In the City of Pontiac, City Code § 114-57 bars overnight parking between 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. on 13 named streets…

Rochester Hills fines parking a vehicle on a city street for more than 24 hours at $40 under section 98-105(a)(9), and…

From November 15 through April 1, Shelby bars parking on any Village street, alley, or in Municipal Lot A between 2:00…

On streets posted with the required signage, Warren bans parking any vehicle between 2:30 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. every day…

Westland forbids parking a vehicle on any street for storage purposes beyond 48 hours, so a car cannot sit on the…

Clinton Township allows electric vehicle charging stations as an accessory use in every zoning district under Zoning…

Dearborn bars gas-powered cars from parking in a posted EV charging space and bans electric vehicles from squatting…

Occupying a working Lansing EV charging space with anything other than a plugged-in electric vehicle is a civil…

Livonia allows electric vehicle charging equipment as an accessory use in every zoning district, but caps commercial…

In the City of Pontiac, any automobile filling station with more than eight petroleum dispensing pumps must include at…

Under the Rochester Hills Zoning Ordinance, an EV charging station is a permitted accessory use anywhere else a use is…

Warren lets a new development count electric vehicle charging spaces toward its required parking minimums under Zoning…

West Bloomfield Township regulates electric vehicle charging spaces under Sec. 22-34: use is capped at the time posted…

Farmington Hills lets any building, structure or improved area set aside parking spaces reserved for charging electric…

In Sterling Heights, Macomb County, Michigan, the Zoning Ordinance names EV charging stations in one place: § 14A.04.S…

Westland allows electric vehicle parking spaces to count toward required parking, but caps that credit at 10 percent of…

Wyoming, Michigan lets developers count electric-vehicle charging spaces toward the minimum off-street parking a use is…

Michigan's Vehicle Code establishes uniform statewide procedures for declaring, towing, and disposing of abandoned…

Abandoned vehicles in Macomb County are processed under statute MCL 257.252a, enforced by the Sheriff in townships it…

Dearborn bans abandoning a vehicle on public or private property, presumes the last titled owner responsible, and fines…

Detroit bans keeping, parking, or storing inoperative or unlicensed motor vehicles on any premises, including cars…

Farmington Hills bans storing junk or inoperative vehicles on residential property outside a completely enclosed…

Kalamazoo City Code § 22-13 bars parking, storing or abandoning an inoperable, wrecked or partially dismantled motor…

In the City of Novi it is unlawful to park, keep or accumulate an inoperable or dismantled motor vehicle on private…

In the Charter Township of Royal Oak, Michigan, no one can park, store or place a junk, dismantled or unlicensed motor…

In the City of Taylor, Michigan, a vehicle left on public or private property for 48 continuous hours without the owner…

Westland treats storing a junked or unlicensed automobile on private property as a blight factor the owner must remove…

Ann Arbor lets the City Administrator tag a vehicle that appears abandoned on public or private property; if it's not…

Any vehicle left on a Clinton Township street, road, or parking lot for more than forty-eight straight hours is…

Under Sec. 32-118, the Dearborn Heights police department can tag a vehicle left on public or private property as…

Flint bans dismantled, wrecked, or junked vehicles on any street, and allows them on private property for only 15 days…

Michigan state law, not a county ordinance, defines abandoned vehicles. Under MCL 257.252a, a vehicle left on public…

Grand Rapids deems a vehicle abandoned after 48 hours parked in one spot on a public street, on private property…

Abandoned vehicles are governed statewide by the Michigan Vehicle Code. Under MCL 257.252a, a vehicle left on public…

Lansing police may impound any abandoned vehicle or transportation device left on a public way or public property…

Livonia police may remove any automobile, bicycle or other personal property parked, stored or left unattended on a…

Under City Code § 114-47 (Sec. 2.5a), a vehicle left on public or private property becomes "abandoned" once it sits for…

Rochester Hills bans storing wrecked, junked or unlicensed vehicles in any parking area under Zoning Ordinance Sec…

City Code § 716-2 deems any vehicle left unattended on a Royal Oak street, alley or other public property for 48 hours…

Southfield bans keeping an unlicensed or disabled motor vehicle on any property for more than 7 days under City Code §…

Sterling Heights declares it a public nuisance to keep an abandoned vehicle -- one tagged by police and left 48-plus…

Troy bans keeping an inoperable vehicle outside a fully enclosed building for more than 14 days. A vehicle counts as…

Warren treats any vehicle left on private property without the owner's consent as abandoned. Sec. 22-72 lets property…

West Bloomfield Township prohibits parking or storing an unlicensed or inoperative vehicle on residential property…

Wyoming, Michigan bars keeping an unregistered vehicle outdoors for more than seven days and bans outdoor storage of…

In Dearborn, Michigan, § 18-762 makes it unlawful for any person to park any vehicle alongside any curb painted yellow…

Genesee County has no countywide curb-painting rule. Curb markings that designate no-parking or loading areas are…

Grand Rapids prohibits painting or marking any curb or roadway surface unless the Proper Authority has authorized it…

Painting house numbers on a public street curb in the City of Pontiac requires a permit from the Director of Public…

City of Royal Oak Code § 115-3 bars parking a vehicle alongside any curb painted yellow, one of eleven prohibited…

Dearborn Heights lets homeowners paint their address number on the curb in front of their house, but never requires it…

Southfield's traffic engineer sets up passenger and freight curb loading zones and posts the hours each one is…

Ann Arbor City Code § 10:147 lets a rider park a personal mobility vehicle, such as an e-scooter, on a street anywhere…

In the Central Business District of Battle Creek, Michigan, no one can stop, stand or park on a street to load or…

Clinton Township requires every commercial, office and industrial building that receives or ships goods to provide…

Dearborn limits how long any vehicle can sit in a marked loading zone: only as long as it takes to actually load or…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, the city traffic engineer sets the location and posted hours of passenger and freight…

Detroit bars vehicles from standing or parking in a marked loading zone except for the brief loading or unloading of…

In the City of Flint, a loading zone is the part of a street reserved for loading and unloading vehicles licensed as…

Grand Rapids caps loading zone use at 20 minutes without active loading or unloading, and lets the Proper Authority…

On Jackson County Parks and Recreation Commission property, Chapter VII, Section 1(A) bars parking in any place marked…

City Code § 36-178 lets Kalamazoo's Traffic Engineer designate curb-loading zones and post the hours they apply…

Loading zones on local streets are designated by each city or township, not the county. Kent County does directly…

Lansing requires off-street loading and unloading areas to be sized and screened: docks may not face the front yard or…

Loading and unloading a truck, or opening and breaking down boxes and crates, between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. in a way that…

Macomb County has no countywide loading-zone ordinance for residential streets; loading zones are set and enforced by…

City of Novi Code §§ 33-504 and 33-505 restrict marked passenger and freight curb loading zones to actual loading and…

In county-owned parking areas, courthouse and park lots included, Ottawa County limits loading-zone parking to 30…

City Code § 114-66 limits marked passenger zones in the City of Pontiac to three minutes of loading or unloading…

Rochester Hills requires delivery vehicles and trailers to load or unload only in the loading/unloading zones shown on…

In the City of Royal Oak, any building receiving or distributing trucks, materials, or merchandise must provide…

In the Charter Township of Royal Oak, Michigan, required loading space sits to the rear or side of the building…

Sterling Heights requires off-street loading docks wherever the Planning Department finds a building or use needs one…

Every manufacturing, warehouse, retail or service use in the City of Taylor, Michigan must provide off-street loading…

Troy's zoning ordinance requires on-site loading and unloading space for any use that receives or ships goods, sized at…

Manufacturing, warehouse, retail, hotel, hospital, and similar uses in Warren must provide on-site loading and…

Westland's zoning ordinance sets siting, size, and access standards for commercial loading berths, barring them within…

Any building in the City of Wyoming, Michigan used for manufacturing, storage, warehousing, retail sales or a similar…

West Bloomfield Township does not police loading zones on public streets directly; instead, Sec. 22-31(7) lets the…

Property owners inside Dearborn's downtown-adjacent residential parking district can get free permits so they aren't…

Grand Rapids can designate Residential Parking Permit zones where only vehicles displaying a valid city-issued permit…

City Code § 36-187 lets Kalamazoo designate specific blocks as overnight parking permit zones, exempting residents and…

City Code §§ 114-131 through 114-142 let the Pontiac City Council designate residential permit parking areas near the…

The Royal Oak City Commission can designate residential parking permit areas by resolution, restricting on-street…

Ann Arbor's City Administrator can designate residential parking districts where excessive non-resident parking is a…

Detroit residents can petition the City Clerk to designate their block as a residential parking permit area, requiring…

The City of Taylor designates certain blocks as resident-only parking zones under Article IX of Chapter 48. Huron…

When Royal Oak's Police Chief declares a snow emergency, City Code Chapter 625 makes it unlawful to park or leave any…

Dearborn's mayor may declare a citywide snow-emergency parking ban that bars all street parking except on posted snow…

Parking on a designated snow emergency route in Detroit is automatically banned once 2+ inches of snow or ice…

When Lansing declares a snow emergency, parking is banned on affected roadways, from limited downtown hours at Level 1…

When the Director of Public Works declares a snow emergency in the City of Pontiac under City Code § 114-187, triggered…

When the mayor declares a winter weather emergency in Rochester Hills, on-street parking on the affected streets is…

Sterling Heights bans street parking citywide once the Director of Public Services declares a snow emergency, with…

When the mayor declares a snow emergency in Taylor, Section 48-44 bans parking on every city street until the emergency…

When the mayor declares a snow alert, every vehicle must be off the affected streets within six hours or face towing…

Westland's mayor can declare a weather emergency and ban parking on both sides of every city street once snow or ice…

Ann Arbor's City Administrator can declare an on-street snow parking ban on some or all streets ahead of snow or…

In Battle Creek, Michigan the City Manager can declare a snow emergency and prohibit parking on all streets. The ban…

Bay County's Ice and Snow Removal Ordinance bars anyone from shoveling, plowing or blowing snow and ice from private…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, City Code Sec. 32-554 bans parking on any street once snow or ice has piled up three…

When the city manager declares a snow emergency for falling or forecast snow, sleet or freezing rain, parking is banned…

On streets posted as snow routes, Grand Rapids bans parking from 3 a.m. to 6 a.m. whenever the City Manager restricts a…

City Code § 36-170(D) lets Kalamazoo impound, not just ticket, any vehicle parked on a street in violation of the 2:00…

When Livonia's mayor or mayor pro tem declares a snow alert, parking any motor vehicle or trailer on a city street…

In the Charter Township of Royal Oak, Michigan, the township supervisor puts a parking prohibition on snow emergency…

Between November 15 and April 1, Shelby directs drivers to park in Municipal Lot B exactly as posted signage instructs…

The City of Southfield bans on-street parking during snow emergencies declared by the director of public works, and the…

When snow makes plowing necessary, Troy's City Manager can declare a snow emergency and ban parking on specific streets…

From December 1 through March 31, and during any declared snow emergency, Wyoming, Michigan allows on-street parking on…

Michigan regulates nonconsensual towing through the Michigan Vehicle Code, 1949 PA 300. MCL 257.252k makes an owner or…

Wayne County, Michigan, can seize and impound a vehicle used for street racing or for assisting a race under Sec. 207-7…

Dearborn regulates non-consent towing through its own wrecker ordinance, Article VI of Chapter 18, not just through…

Detroit prints no tow rates in its code. Chapter 46, Article II, Division 5, rewritten in full by Ordinance No. 2021-34…

Flint police may tow on eight listed grounds under City Code § 28-38, including six or more unanswered parking tickets…

Westland Code Sec. 98-6 treats any vehicle parked contrary to the Code as a nuisance that the Westland Police…