480.01 Prohibited Parking
General restrictions: Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or official traffic control device, no person shall:

• Stop, stand or park a motor vehicle, vehicle, semi-trailer or trailer: 
  • With vehicle’s left wheels next to the curb or edge of the roadway 
  • Except as otherwise provided in this section, every motor vehicle, vehicle, semi-trailer or trailer stopped or parked upon a two-way roadway shall be so stopped or parked with the right-hand wheels parallel to and within 12 inches of the right-hand curb or as close as practicable to the right-hand shoulder. 
  • On a sidewalk 
  • Within an intersection 
  • On a crosswalk 
  • Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within 30 feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless a different length is indicated by signs or markings 
  • Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic 
  • Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel 
  • On any railroad tracks 
  • At any place where official signs prohibit stopping 
  • In a public parking area if the vehicle does not display a current annual registration sticker or current temporary permit pending registration 
  • On any public highway or public parking facility for the intended purpose of displaying it for sale 
  • Upon any street from which merchandise is peddled without a Village of Elburn permit. 
  • Where the standing of a vehicle will reduce the usable width of the roadway for moving traffic to less than 18 feet 
  • On any parkway covered with grass and not intended by the owner of the abutting property for parking use 
  • On any part of a street where the curb is painted yellow, whether or not the area is designated with signs
  • When the vehicle is not entirely within the designated parking space 
  • Within Resident Parking Protection District between 3:00 am – 9:00 am, Monday through Friday (except holidays) 
  • In any parking space reserved for disabled parking, unless vehicle bears any of the following designating the same to be a vehicle owned or transporting a qualified disabled individual or a veteran: 
  • A parking decal or device containing the International symbol of access issued by any local authority, state, district, territory or foreign country 
  • A parking decal or device containing the International symbol of access issued by the Village 
  • A State of Illinois registration plate for the handicapped or disabled veteran
• Stand or park a motor vehicle, vehicle, semi-trailer or trailer, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge passengers: 
  • In front of a public or private driveway
  • Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant 
  • Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection 
  • Within 30 feet upon the approach to any stop sign, yield sign, or traffic control signal located at the side of a roadway 
  • Within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station within 75 feet of such entrance (when properly sign-posted) 
  • At any place where official signs prohibit standing 
  • On school days 8:00 am to 9:00 am and 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm on the south side of Prairie Valley Street between Ridge Dr. and the easterly access drive of Kaneland North Elementary School.

Commuter Parking Facilities 

• Location: The municipal commuter parking facilities are those off-street parking facilities owned or operated by the Village of Elburn serving the METRA Station.
• Designations: The municipal commuter parking facility shall be designated as a Daily Fee parking area. It shall be unlawful to park any motor vehicle, vehicle, semi-trailer or trailer in any municipal commuter parking facility in violation of any of the regulations of this ordinance.
• Daily parking fee: The daily parking fee Monday through Friday of each week shall be $1.25 for each parking space. Additionally, there will be no daily fee for the holidays of New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas.
  • The daily fee shall be paid by securely depositing $1.25 in the designated payment slot in the Daily Fee Collection Box that corresponds to the occupied parking space in the daily fee parking area.
• It is unlawful for any person to park or permit his motor vehicle, vehicle, semi-trailer or trailer to be parked in violation of the following: 
  • When the vehicle is parked in violation of a “Head In” sign. 
  • When the vehicle exceeds 20 feet in length in any one parking space. Overlength vehicles will be allowed to occupy two spaces end to end, but must pay the daily parking fee for both occupied spaces. In all cases, all occupied daily fee spaces must have paid the daily fee. 
  • It is unlawful for any person to park or the owner of any vehicle to permit a vehicle driven or owed by him to be parked in a daily fee parking space without immediately depositing the daily fee for that parking space. 
  • It is unlawful for any person to park or the owner of any vehicle to permit a vehicle owned by him to be parked in a daily fee parking space for a period longer than the legal parking period to which he is entitled by the depositing of coins as provided. 
  • It is unlawful for any person to deposit as the daily fee, any slug or substitute for any United States coin or currency.

480.05 Parking on Private Property
It shall be unlawful to park any motor vehicle, inoperable motor vehicle, abandoned vehicle, detached semi-trailer, trailer or recreational trailer on any private property without the consent of the owner of the property.

480.08 Parking after Snowfall
No person, firm or company shall park a motor vehicle, vehicle, semi-trailer or trailer, or if parked, allow a motor vehicle, vehicle, semi-trailer or trailer to remain parked or standing, in any public street within the limits of the Village after a snowfall in which there is an accumulation of two or more inches of snow. This prohibition shall remain until 24 hours after the end of the snowfall or until the street, alley or parking area is plowed or the snow is removed therefrom, whichever comes first.

Whenever any motor vehicle, vehicle, semi-trailer or trailer shall be parked in violation of subsection (a) hereof, such vehicle shall be removed at the direction of the Police Department to any Municipally owned or leased property in the Village, or to a private or public garage or lot, and shall be stored therein and shall not be removed therefrom, except upon payment by the owner to the Police Department of a sum not to exceed the reasonable expense of the removal and storage of said motor vehicle, vehicle, semi-trailer or trailer.

480.10 Locations Where Parking Prohibited for More Than A Specific Amount of Time 

• Between the hours of 6:00am and 6:00pm, no person shall park a motor vehicle, vehicle, semi-trailer or trailer on the below listed public streets or public facilities for more than two hours: 
  • North Street, from First St. to Gates St. 
  • Main St. from the Union Pacific railroad to Shannon St. 
• Except for private, commercial and/or delivery vehicles that are actively engaged in loading and unloading, no person shall park any motor vehicle, vehicle, semi-trailer or trailer in the first parking spaces on the north and south sides of North Street east of Main St. for more than 15 minutes. 
• No person shall park any motor vehicle, semi-trailer or trailer between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. on the below listed streets or public facilities: 
  • Main St. between the Union Pacific railroad and Shannon St. 
• No person shall park any motor vehicle, that may include an attached semi-trailer or trailer on any highway, street, public right-of way or public facility for more 72 hours without being moved. This section does not apply to motor vehicles parked at a public facility where pre-payment has been made for parking on a daily basis. 
• No person shall park any inoperable motor vehicle, detached semi-trailer, trailer or recreational trailer on a highway, street, public right-of way or public facility for more than 12 consecutive hours.

480.12 Prima-Facie Liability
Whenever any vehicle shall have been parked in violation of any of the provisions of any ordinance prohibiting or restricting parking, the person in whose name such vehicle is registered shall be prima facie responsible for such violation and subject to penalties.