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Date: 12/16/85 Revision: 05/22/14 Reviewed: 05/01/25 HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE CHAD CHRONISTER , SHERIFF STANDARD OPERATING PROCED URE Number: GEN 540.00 Page: 1 of 4 SUBJECT: PARKI NG ENFORCEMENT I. PURPOSE: The purpose of this standard operating procedure is to define guidelines for the enforcement of County parking ordinances. II. SCOPE: This shall apply to all Sheriff's Office personnel who are certified in parking enforcemen t. III. DISCUSSION: The Hillsborough County ordinance relating to parking en forcement was created in order to establish legal parameters for parking vehicles. Sheriff's personnel certified in parking enforcement may issue citations for illegally parked vehicles in the unincorporated areas of Hillsborough County . IV. DEFINITIONS: A. Parking Enforcement Officer - Sheriff's deputies and other persons authorized to issue parking citations in Hillsborough County. B. Fire Lane - An area designated by the Fi re Marshall of Hillsborough County as a fire lane, marked and posted as such, with written certification of the fire lane and its location on file with the Sheriff. C. Designated Parking Space (Disabled Parking) - Any parking space which the owner, leasee or person in control of such property provides for use by members of the public other than employees of such owner, leasee or person, including, but not limited to, parking spaces at shopping centers, stores, offices, motels, malls, restaurants, and marin as, when such public parking space is posted with the sign bearing the interna tionally accepted wheelchair symbol and the caption "Parking by Disabled Permit Only." D. Parking or Standing - The halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, other than tem porarily, for the purpose of, and while engaged in, receiving or discharging passengers. E. Stop or Stopping - The halting of a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or to comply with lawful traffic control device. V. PROCED URES: A. Prohibited Parking - Within the unincorporated areas of Hillsborough County, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with law or the direction of a deputy or an official traffic -control device: 1. No person s hall stop, stand or park a vehicle: a. On the roadway side of a vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street; GEN 540.00 06/01/21 Page 2 of 4 b. On a sidewalk; c. Within an intersection; d. On a crosswalk; e. Alongside or opposite a street evacuation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic; f. Upon a bridge or other e levated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel; g. On railroad tracks; or h. At a place where an official traffic control device prohibits stopping. i. In violation of Hillsborough County Ordinance 98 -48 as revised by Amendment 00 -18.Personnel may exercise discretion when enforcing this ordinance. Ordinance 98 -48 (as revised by Amendment 00 -18): No person shall park any vehicle upon a public highway, roadway, or str eet, upon a public parking lot or other public property, or upon private prope rty where the public has the right to travel by vehicle, for the principal purpose of displaying the vehicle for sale unless the sale of the vehicle is specifically authorized on such property by municipal or County regulation and the person is duly licensed as a motor vehicle dealer in accordance with Section 320.27, Florida Statutes, and the person is in compliance with all municipal or County licensing regulations. Nothing in this Section shall prohibit a person from parking his or her own vehicle on an y private real property which the person owns or leases or on private real property which the person does not own or lease, but for which he or she obtains the permission of the owner, for the principal purpose of sale. Any vehicle parked in violation of this Section twenty -four (24) hours after a previous violation and written notice shall be subject to removal of the vehicle at the owner’s expense pursuant to Section 8 of this Ordinance (98 -48 as amended by Ordinance 00 -18). 2. No person shall stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers. a. In front of a public or private driveway; b. Within fifteen (15 ) feet of a fire hydrant; c. Within twenty (20) feet of a crosswalk at an intersection; d. Within thirty (30) feet upon the approach to a flashing signal, stop sign or official traffic -control signal located at the side of roadway; e. Within twenty (20) fe et of the driveway entrance to a fire station and on the side of a street oppo site the entrance to a fire station within seventy -five (75) feet of said entrance (when properly signposted); or f. At a place where an official traffic control device prohibits standing. 3. No person shall park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers: a. Within fifty (50) feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossin g; or 06