06/02/2026
The Police Department will spend the next week conducting checks on parked vehicles and trailers throughout town.
The primary violations we will be checking on are abandoned vehicles, disabled vehicles, and storing trailers/campers/machinery on the streets
Sec. 93. Parking Disabled and Other Vehicles.
(a) No person shall park or store any farm machinery, trailer or semitrailer of any kind, or parts of the same, or any dead, damaged or disabled motor vehicle or farm machinery, trailer or semitrailer of any kind, in the roadway of any highway, or between the property line or sidewalk and the curb line of any street.
(b) A person shall not use the public highway to abandon vehicles or use the highway to leave vehicles unattended in such a manner as to interfere with public highway operations. When a person leaves a motor vehicle on a public highway or other property open to use by the public, the city having jurisdiction of such highway or other property open to use by the public, after 48 hours or when the motor vehicle interferes with public highway operations, may remove and impound the motor vehicle. (K.S.A. 8-1102)
City Ordinance
§ 14-208 TRUCK PARKING
(a) No truck, truck trailer, tractor trailer, trailer, mobile home, boat, machinery or equipment shall be parked for more than two hours of any 24-hour period on any street or alley within the single-family, duplex and multiple-family zoned districts (R-1; R-2; R-3) or the mobile home community zoned district (R-2MH) as defined and designated by the zoning ordinance of the city.
If you have any questions about parking your vehicle or trailer on the street please contact the non-emergency police line (785-460-4460) and if you have questions on zoning please refer to the City of Colby Zoning Map on the City webpage https://www.cityofcolbyks.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1339/Zoning-Map
