Parking Rules in Missouri (2026)

Unincorporated Jefferson County limits recreational vehicle and boat-trailer parking in R-20, R-10, R-7, PR-1 and PR-2…

Kirkwood Code § 14-361(a)(5) bars parking any trailer, including a boat, camper or utility trailer, on the public…

Columbia's Property Maintenance Code bars keeping utility, boat, or camping trailers on an unapproved surface anywhere…

Boats, travel trailers, pickup coaches and recreational vehicles may park in a Florissant driveway only on an approved…

In unincorporated Greene County, the zoning code allows one travel trailer, motorhome, camper, or RV to sit in a…

Kansas City bars parking or storing an RV, trailer, camper shell, or boat on a trailer anywhere on residential property…

Lee's Summit limits residential lots to one stored RV, boat, or trailer (plus one more parked), all on a hard paved…

O'Fallon's nuisance code requires any vehicle, trailer, boat, camper, or other recreational vehicle to sit on a durably…

St. Charles County caps residential lots to one RV, trailer, or boat outdoors, requires side/rear-yard storage, and…

RVs over 18 feet long can't sit on St. Louis streets more than 60 minutes at a stretch in residential zones, and can't…

Under SLCRO §1003.165, all vehicles in unincorporated St. Louis County residential districts, including RVs, campers…

In unincorporated Cass County, the Zoning Order allows one boat, boat trailer, camping trailer or motorized camping…

Springfield's zoning code lets homeowners store boats, boat trailers, camping trailers and RVs on residential property…

Boone County zoning confines front-yard parking to paved off-street spaces and driveways; the rest of a required front…

Columbia, Missouri caps residential driveway width under UDC Table 4.1-5: up to 20 feet for a 2-car garage, 28 feet for…

Driving or parking a vehicle on someone else's yard or lawn without permission is a standalone offense in Florissant…

In unincorporated Greene County, Missouri, you cannot park a vehicle or trailer in your front yard except on a driveway…

Independence caps front-yard paving at 40 percent of the yard area in residential districts and requires driveways to…

In unincorporated Jackson County, driveways and parking areas for anything but a single-family home in the AG, RR or RE…

In unincorporated Jefferson County, residential parking is confined to the driveway, an adjoining paved pad, or a…

Kansas City driveways must be 7.5 to 22 feet wide at the property line and continuously paved with pavers, asphalt, or…

Kirkwood bars parking or storing an airplane, boat, house car, mobile home, motor vehicle or trailer in the front yard…

Lee's Summit requires any boat, RV, camper or utility trailer stored or parked on a residential driveway or accessory…

Springfield, Missouri bans parking any part of a vehicle or trailer on grass or dirt in the front yard of residential…

St. Charles County requires driveways and parking areas to be paved, with a narrow all-weather-surface exception for…

St. Louis bans parking on unpaved front yards and caps overnight driveway parking outside a garage at five days under §…

Residential property owners in St. Louis County cannot park a vehicle in the front yard unless it sits on a paved…

No vehicle or trailer over 12,000 pounds licensed weight, including tractor-trailers, dump trucks and buses, may park…

Kirkwood Code § 14-361 bars parking dual-rear-wheel trucks, dump-bed vehicles, motorized construction equipment, and…

O'Fallon bans parking DOT Class 3-and-above trucks, step vans, shelled pickups, and commercial trailers or tractors on…

In St. Charles County's residential and agricultural districts, most commercial vehicles must be garaged or carported…

St. Louis prohibits parking any truck or bus on a public street abutting property zoned "A" through "F", single-family…

St. Louis County bars commercial motor vehicles over 12,000 pounds from parking on residential-district roadways…

In unincorporated Cass County, the Zoning Order bars exterior storage or parking of a commercial vehicle or bus rated…

Columbia, Missouri, bans parking trucks over one ton net weight on five signed residential streets in Boone County…

Greene County requires off-street parking with an engineered access drive for large commercial vehicles and trailers in…

Independence bars trucks from residential-district parking unless they're actively delivering or are licensed under…

Jackson County bars buses, trucks, house-trailers and tractor-trailers over 6,000 pounds from parking on streets…

Kansas City caps parking of buses, trucks, trailers and similar vehicles on residential streets at two hours, with…

Commercial trucks, tractors, and trailers cannot park on any Lee's Summit street for more than two hours except while…

Springfield, Missouri bans overnight street parking of trucks and trailers over 7 feet wide, 9 feet high, or 20 feet…

Chapter 355 bars stopping, standing or parking in unincorporated Cass County within set distances of intersections…

Columbia, Missouri's traffic code bars standing or parking in front of any driveway and requires vehicles to park…

Section 355.010 bars stopping, standing or parking anywhere it would block traffic or emergency access: on sidewalks…

Independence bans stopping, standing, or parking in over 20 specific situations under City Code § 18.15.006, including…

On unincorporated Jackson County roads, blocking a driveway, obstructing traffic, or overstaying a signed time limit is…

Jefferson County bans parking within eighteen inches of any county road's traveled portion and prohibits blocking a…

Kansas City regulates street parking through a combination of time limits, permit zones, and snow emergency…

Kirkwood requires vehicles parked at a curb to sit parallel and within 18 inches of the right-hand curb, bans parking…

Lee's Summit allows on-street parking but requires vehicles to sit within 12 inches of the curb, off the unpaved…

O'Fallon requires parked vehicles to sit within 18 inches of the curb, facing the direction of travel, and bans…

Springfield, Missouri bars parking within 5 feet of a driveway, on sidewalks, in intersections, and in 17 other listed…

St. Charles County enforces on-street stopping, standing, and parking rules through Missouri's Model Traffic Ordinance…

St. Louis bans on-street parking on sidewalks, in intersections, within 15 feet of fire hydrants, and in front of…

St. Louis County bans stopping or parking in specific danger and access zones on any roadway, from sidewalks and…

St. Louis bans parking recreational vehicles over 18 feet long on residential streets between 2 a.m. and 7 a.m., and…

Columbia caps continuous on-street parking at 24 hours citywide; leaving a vehicle standing longer, or abandoning it…

Section 355.110 caps how long a vehicle may sit continuously on a Florissant street: seven consecutive days for an…

Jackson County Traffic Code § 5277.2 lets the county post signs banning stopping, standing or parking during specified…

Kansas City has no blanket overnight parking ban; instead the public works director posts signs limiting how long a…

O'Fallon does not run a nightly curfew on street parking, but it bans leaving any vehicle on a roadway for longer than…

No one may leave a vehicle parked on a St. Louis County roadway for more than 24 uninterrupted hours, except during a…

St. Charles County has no blanket overnight parking curfew. Instead, the County Council designates specific roads as…

Lee's Summit has no citywide overnight street-parking ban: vehicles can legally park on residential streets overnight…

New commercial buildings and multi-family developments in Florissant must wire a share of their parking spaces for…

O'Fallon's zoning code lets electric vehicle charging stations operate as a permitted use in C-O, C-1, C-2, C-3, HTCD…

St. Louis's Building Code requires new multi-family buildings (Use Group R2) to install EV Ready parking spaces, on a…

New construction, major remodels, and parking-lot alterations in unincorporated St. Louis County that create more than…

Kansas City lets property owners install private EV chargers as of right in every zoning district, and public chargers…

Missouri RSMo 304.155 to 304.158 establishes statewide procedures for towing, storing, and disposing of abandoned…

Jefferson County prohibits abandoning any motor vehicle or trailer on the right-of-way of a public road or state…

An unlicensed, dismantled, inoperable or junk-filled vehicle on private property in Columbia, Missouri is a declared…

In unincorporated Jackson County, Missouri, any abandoned, wrecked, damaged, demolished or disabled vehicle left where…

St. Charles County bans keeping unlicensed, unregistered, disassembled, or dismantled vehicles on any premises; the…

St. Louis bans inoperable or hazardous vehicles on private land and street-parked vehicles left more than five days…

A junked trailer or junked motor vehicle left on private property in unincorporated St. Louis County for more than 72…

Boone County traffic regulations bar parking a wrecked or disabled vehicle on any highway or street beyond the time…

Cass County Code § 205.560 makes it an offense to knowingly abandon a vehicle, vessel or trailer on a public road…

Missouri Revised Statutes 304.155 lets the Clay County Sheriff authorize towing of abandoned vehicles from public…

Section 395.020 bars leaving any motor vehicle abandoned on a public right-of-way or on another's private land without…

Unincorporated Greene County bars parking, storing, or displaying car hulks and junk vehicles for more than 30 days…

Independence bans keeping an unlicensed, wrecked, or partly dismantled motor vehicle out in the open for more than 7…

Kansas City bans abandoning vehicles on streets or private property; a vehicle left unattended on a street over 48…

Kirkwood Code § 14-117 makes it illegal to abandon a motor vehicle or trailer on any public road right-of-way, and…

A vehicle left on a Lee's Summit street, sidewalk or other public right-of-way for more than 48 hours whose owner…

O'Fallon bans abandoning any motor vehicle or trailer on another person's private property without consent, and…

Springfield, Missouri gives owners 7 days to remove a wrecked or junked vehicle from private property, and just 1 hour…

Jackson County marks hazardous no-stopping and no-parking spots with signs, not red-painted curbs: the County Traffic…

Kansas City requires curbs marking fire lanes to be painted yellow along their entire length, under the city's Fire…

Fire lanes in Lee's Summit must be marked with curbs painted red and labeled with 4-inch white lettering reading "FIRE…

Springfield's Fire Code requires curbs enclosing a fire apparatus access road to be painted red, with a 4-inch red…

Businesses in St. Louis must get an annual Traffic and Transportation Administrator permit, priced by the foot of curb…

Boone County, Missouri requires off-street loading space for new or altered commercial buildings, scaled to floor area…

Cass County Code Sections 360.020 and 360.030 limit standing in marked curb loading zones to actual loading or…

In Columbia, Missouri, vehicles may only stop in a marked curb loading zone to load or unload -- parking or standing…

Florissant's City Traffic Engineer designates and signs passenger and freight curb loading zones under Chapter 360…

Unincorporated Greene County requires at least one off-street loading space, sized 10 by 25 feet, for any new building…

Independence requires off-street loading spaces for public, commercial, and industrial buildings over 20,000 square…

Loading and unloading at a marked curb zone in unincorporated Jackson County requires a $10 permit application, a…

Unincorporated Jefferson County requires new or expanded retail, industrial, hospital, institutional and hotel…

Kansas City's public works director designates every loading zone in the curb lane, and businesses must apply for a…

Kirkwood's Traffic Engineer designates and signs passenger and freight curb loading zones and sets the hours they apply…

Lee's Summit caps passenger curb loading zones at 3 minutes and freight/service zones at the posted time limit, or only…

O'Fallon's Traffic Engineer designates passenger and freight curb loading zones and posts the hours they operate…

Springfield's Land Development Code sets off-street loading design rules for Greene County's largest city: no backing…

St. Charles County requires off-street loading spaces of at least 600 square feet, measuring 12 feet wide by 50 feet…

St. Louis County's zoning code requires off-street loading docks sized 10 by 40 feet for commercial and industrial…

Columbia, Missouri's North Village Parking District restricts unmetered street parking near downtown to residents…

Springfield, Missouri has designated seven residential parking permit districts in Greene County where non-permit…

St. Louis creates residential parking districts block by block through individual ordinances, each requiring a resident…

Kansas City lets residents petition for a residential parking permit street when commuter vehicles clog blocks with…

O'Fallon's parking ban on all City streets kicks in automatically the moment any snow, ice or frozen precipitation…

St. Louis bans parking on designated snow emergency routes once the Snow Coordinator declares an emergency, with towing…

Cass County bars parking on any county roadway or right-of-way during snow operations and plows about 943 miles of…

Columbia, Missouri automatically bars parking on any street posted as a snow route once two inches or more of snow…

Florissant's snow coordinator, the Director of Public Works, can post any city street as a snow emergency route with…

When Independence declares a snow-driven parking emergency, vehicles must clear designated emergency routes within two…

Jefferson County lets Public Works tow, without notice or a hearing, any vehicle situated so as to impede snow removal…

Kansas City can declare a snow parking emergency and ban parking on signed snow routes until it lifts. Cars must clear…

When the county Director declares a snow emergency, parking anywhere on the road that would block plowing crews is…

Missouri lets a private lot tow a car without calling police only when the real property owner, the lessee in lawful…

Kansas City prints no tow rate in its ordinances. The ceiling on non-consent towing, storage and retrieval fees is set…

St. Louis prints no tow or storage rate in its code. Chapter 17.56, the Vehicle Towing Code, hands both schedules to…