The City of Plantation has Ordinances that all guests, residents, and businesses must follow. Residents includes homeowners, their family within the residence, and all occupants of single and multi-use rental properties. Businesses includes property owners or tenants renting or leasing commercial space. Guests includes anyone within the City of Plantation jurisdiction.
All Ordinances are codified and available for view at American Legal Publishing. Questions regarding Code enforcement may be directed to the City office or George Stewart, Louisville Code Enforcement & Mediation.
September 2025 TOPIC-Parking
§ 72.01 OBSTRUCTIONAL PARKING; DOUBLE PARKING.
(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to leave any vehicle or any other thing that may be a nuisance, obstruction or hindrance in or on any street, alley or sidewalk within the city either during the day or night.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to stop or park any vehicle on the roadway side of any other vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street.
Penalty, see § 72.99
§ 72.02 MANNER OF PARKING.
(A) It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to stop or park the vehicle in a manner other than with its right-hand side toward and parallel with the curb, except that where parking is permitted on the left side of a 1-way street, the left-hand side shall be so parked, and except for commercial loading and unloading on one-way streets.
(B) No vehicle shall be parked or left standing on any street unless its 2 right wheels are within 6 inches of and parallel with the curb, except that on 1way streets where parking is permitted on the left side the 2 left wheels are to be within 6 inches of and parallel with the curb.
(C) No vehicle shall be backed to the curb on any street, except that wagons and trucks may do so when loading and unloading provided that the loading and unloading and delivery of property and material shall not consume more than 30 minutes. The backing of trucks or wagons is prohibited at all times and on all streets in the city where any truck or wagon so backed interferes with the use of the roadway by moving vehicles or occupies road space within 10 feet of the center line of the street.
(D) The city may establish diagonal parking at certain places, requiring the parking of vehicles at a certain angle to the curb and within a certain portion of the roadway adjacent thereto. However, diagonal parking shall not be established where the roadway space required therefor would be within 10 feet of the center line of any street. The diagonal parking places shall be designated by suitable signs, and shall indicate by markings on the pavement the required angle and the width of the roadway space within which the vehicle shall park.
(E) It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to so park such vehicle that any part thereof shall extend beyond the lines marking the side or the rear of the space assigned for 1 vehicle.
(F) It shall be unlawful for anyone to park any vehicle except for on a hard surface, that being asphalt or concrete.
Penalty, see § 72.99
§ 72.03 LIMITATIONS OF STOPPING AND PARKING.
(A) No person shall stop or park a vehicle except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic control device, in the following places:
(1) On a sidewalk;
(2) In front of sidewalk ramps provided for persons with disabilities;
(3) In front of a public or private driveway;
(4) Within an intersection or crosswalk;
(5) At any place where official signs prohibit stopping or parking;
(6) Within 30 feet of any flashing beacon, stop sign, or traffic control signal located at the side of a roadway;
(7) On any controlled access highway;
(8) Within a highway tunnel;
(9) Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant; or
(10) In an area between the roadways of a divided highway.
(B) No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his or her control into any such prohibited area.
(KRS 189.450(5), (6)) Penalty, see § 72.99
§ 72.04 RESTRICTIONS AND PROHIBITIONS ON DESIGNATED STREETS.
(A) The provisions of this section prohibiting the stopping and parking of a vehicle shall apply at all times or at those times herein specified or as indicated on official signs except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or official traffic-control devices.
(B) The provisions of this section imposing a time limit on parking shall not relieve any person from his or her duty to observe other and more restrictive provisions prohibiting or limiting the stopping or parking of vehicles in specific places or at specified times.
(C) When signs are erected in compliance with the provisions of division (F) below giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle at any time on any street so marked by official signs.
(D) When a curb has been painted in compliance with the provisions of division (F) below, no person shall park a vehicle at any time at or adjacent to any curb so marked.
(E) When signs are erected in compliance with the provisions of division (F) below, in each block giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle between the hours specified by official signs on any day except Sundays on any street so marked.
(F) (1) The city shall determine on what streets or portions thereof stopping or parking shall be restricted or prohibited. Whenever under authority of or by this traffic code or any other ordinance any parking limit is imposed or parking is prohibited on designated streets, or parking areas are restricted to handicapped parking, appropriate signs shall be erected giving notice thereof. However, in lieu of erecting such signs or in conjunction therewith, the face and top of a curb or curbs at or adjacent to which parking is prohibited at all times may be painted a solid yellow color.
(2) No such regulations or restrictions shall be effective unless the signs have been erected and are in place or the curbs are painted yellow at the time of any alleged offense, except in the case of those parking restrictions which by their very nature would not require the signs and markings.
(G) When signs are erected in compliance with division (F) above in each block giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle for a time longer than specified on official signs any day except Sunday and on any street so marked.
Penalty, see § 72.99
§ 72.06 PARKING IN EXCESS OF CERTAIN NUMBER OF HOURS PROHIBITED; TOWING AUTHORIZED.
It shall be unlawful for anyone to park in any 1 place any vehicle on any of the public ways or streets of the city for a period of 24 hours or longer. Any vehicle left parked in any 1 place on any of the public ways or streets of the city for a period of 24 hours or longer shall be deemed abandoned, and shall be subject to all existing regulations of the city pertaining to abandoned motor vehicles.
Penalty, see § 72.99
Cross-reference:
Removal of abandoned vehicles, see § 72.21et seq.
§ 72.08 PARKING ON OFF-STREET FACILITY.
(A) It shall be unlawful for the driver of a motor vehicle to park or abandon the vehicle or drive on or otherwise trespass on another’s property, or on an area developed as an off-street parking facility, without the consent of the owner, lessee or person in charge of such property or facility.
(B) If at any time a vehicle is parked, abandoned or otherwise trespasses in violation of division (A) of this section, the owner, lessee or person in charge of the property or facility may have the unauthorized motor vehicle removed in accordance with the provisions of §§ 72.20 through 72.22.
(C) Every property owner or operator of an off-street parking facility shall post signs stating thereon that the property or parking lot or facility is privately owned and that unauthorized vehicle will be removed at the owner’s expense before exercising the authority granted in division (B).
Penalty, see § 72.99
Statutory reference:
Removal of vehicles by owners of private parking lots; signs, see KRS 189.725
What else should I know?
No parking on or in the easement. All four tires MUST be on asphalt or concrete.
No parking on the side so designated by signs “No Parking This Side”.
Vehicles must not cross sidewalks thereby impeding pedestrian traffic.
Vehicles should be parked facing the direction of traffic for the designated side, if on the street.
The City may issue citations for any violation of these Ordinances.
The City may contract to correct the violations after sufficient notice and add those costs to a fine as a penalty for violation of any of the above Ordinances.
The City and business owners are authorized to have vehicles towed if parked without permission of the business, on the street more than 24 hours, has no or expired tags, is inoperable, or repeatedly violates Ordinances thereby creating a nuisance.