Arkansas Administrative Code
Agency 008 - Department of Higher Education
Division 02 - Colleges and Universities Plans and Operations
Rule 008.02.05-003 - Parking Rules and Regulations for the University of Arkansas for the academic year 2005-2006

1. Introduction

These regulations become effective July 1, 2005 and are in effect at all times. Any vehicle operated or parked on University of Arkansas owned or controlled property in violation of Arkansas motor vehicle statutes or these University of Arkansas regulations is subject to being cited and towed.

Any motor vehicle parked on University of Arkansas owned or controlled property must either properly display a current University of Arkansas parking permit or park at a parking meter and pay the posted meter fee. Permits are valid only in authorized lots or zones designated by map or posted signs and only for the vehicle or person to whom they are registered.

Permits are not required at metered spaces; however, parking meter payment is required.

Short-term parking meters (gold meters) are placed throughout campus for the purpose of loading and unloading and quick stops at campus buildings. These meters have a time limit of 20 minutes. Campus loading zones are only for marked commercial vehicles and those with UA loading zone permits.

University of Arkansas parking permits or parking meter payments are required for parking on campus streets, lots and in the Garland Avenue Parking Facility from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday in designated night reserved lots; and at all times in 24 hour reserved spaces, garages, and lots. The responsibility for locating a legal parking space rests with the motor vehicle operator.

Cash-less payment options are also available for campus parking meters and garage parking eliminating the need to carry change for campus parking. Contact Transit and Parking if you have questions about or wish to purchase any of these parking payment options.

Faculty, staff, students and visitors may purchase a Garland Avenue Parking Facility Reserved permit that allows parking in the reserved section of the parking garage from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Meter payment in the garage is required from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. The facility will be used by the Athletic Department for all home football games and therefore, must be cleared by midnight before each home game.

The Harmon Avenue Parking Facility (HAPF) is a gated facility with entry and exit controlled by a proximity (access) card. Temporary and hourly parking is also available with pay stations located on levels 1 and 6. Payment can be made by cash, coin, credit cards, debit cards, Razorbucks or parking may be validated by some departments.

The University of Arkansas assumes no responsibility for loss of or damage to private property. Therefore, all unattended vehicles parked on campus should be locked.

Parking lot designation signs are color coded and labeled with the lot type. Lot designation signs are located at the parking lot entrances and within the lots when necessary. Signs designating spaces within a lot are placed at each end of the section of spaces they designate and regulate all spaces between the signs.

2. Parking Permit Eligibility and Purchase

Garland Avenue Parking Facility Reserved: Issued for a specific area in the Garland Avenue Parking Facility and will be sold to individuals based upon application, to be renewed annually.

Faculty/staff Reserved: Issued for a specific lot and will be sold to individuals based upon application, to be renewed annually. Priority will be given to current reserved permit holders and to disabled persons.

When a vacancy occurs, current applications will be reviewed and applicants will be assigned to a lot based on date of application, rank and seniority. New All Area and 24 Hour Reserved permit applicants need to submit written justification by June 20 for either type of permit, which will be reviewed by the Transit, Parking and Traffic Committee Chairperson and forwarded to the Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration with a recommendation for approval or disapproval. Current All Area and 24 Hour Reserved permits will be reviewed annually for continuing need.

Faculty/Staff: Full-time University of Arkansas employees and part-time University of Arkansas employees who work at least 1000 hours annually and are not enrolled in more than five class hours each semester. Graduate students are not eligible for Faculty/staff permits.

Resident Reserved Permits: Currently enrolled students residing in UA housing facilities, based upon date of housing contract and space availability.

Student Permits: Currently enrolled students.

Remote Permits: All students, faculty and staff.

Parking permits may be purchased at the Transit and Parking Department, Administrative Services Building, 155 Razorback Road, Monday through Friday, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. A parking permit will not be issued to any person who has unpaid University of Arkansas parking citations.

3. Substitute Motor Vehicle Registration

Your parking permit is designed to be moved to your replacement vehicle. You will need to register each vehicle that will display your permit with the Transit and Parking Department.

4. Visitor Parking

Visitors are persons other than University of Arkansas students, staff or faculty members. Campus visitors, with a temporary visitor parking permit, may park in regular metered spaces without paying the meter fee (short-term and garage metered spaces excluded) and in parking lots designated as Faculty/Staff, Student or Remote. Meter fee payment is required at short-term meters (gold housings) at all times. Garland Avenue Parking Facility visitors with a temporary Garland Avenue Parking Facility visitor permit may park at GAPF meters and at regular metered spaces without paying the meter fee. Garland Avenue Parking Facility temporary permits also authorize parking in lots designated as Faculty/Staff, Student and Remote. Campus visitors without a current permit should park at a parking meter and pay the posted meter fee. Visitors and vendors may obtain a temporary or annual visitor parking permit from the Transit and Parking Department. University of Arkansas units or individuals receiving visitors are expected to promptly contact the Transit and Parking Department (575-PARK) to make parking arrangements. Your cooperation will help prevent a campus visitor's vehicle being cited and towed. Visitors may not be logged-in by telephone unless the requesting department has a reserved or signed visitor's space. University of Arkansas units may purchase daily visitor parking permits or access cards from the Transit and Parking Department and issue them only to visitors. Please call 575-4666 for information.

5. Responsibilities of Parking Permit Holders

Each parking permit holder is responsible for safeguarding his/her permit, proper permit display on his/her vehicle and for any parking violation charges issued to that permit. Permits must be completely affixed by the manufacturer's adhesive and displayed on the inside of the front windshield, lower left corner, on the driver's side. Temporary hangtag permits must be displayed on the inside mirror support and be visible through the windshield from outside the vehicle. Permits may not be reproduced, altered, defaced, bartered or sold to another individual. Permits are to be removed prior to sale or transfer of a vehicle, or upon termination of UA employment or enrollment.

A lost or stolen permit may be replaced for $5. Any vehicle displaying a lost or stolen permit will be towed and impounded, and the driver/owner will be required to pay all tow and storage fees, a $100 administrative charge, and his/her campus parking privileges will be suspended for one year.

6. Parking Permit Fees

Parking Permit Fees by Permit Type

Annual Reserved, Faculty/Staff, and Emeritus permits expire on July 31st, or upon termination of University employment. Annual Student and Remote permits expire on August 15th or upon withdrawal from the UA. Temporary permits are valid only for the date(s) listed on the face of each permit.

7. Designation and Use of Parking Areas

Designation of University of Arkansas numbered parking lots and specific parking spaces is the responsibility of the Transit, Parking and Traffic Committee and the Transit and Parking Department. Parking lot designations are indicated by permit color on the parking map included in these regulations, and on-site by colored signs. Sign and stall markings are considered to be correct and take precedence over conflicting parking map designations. Any area not specifically designated for parking is considered a No Parking zone, which may not be posted. Your permit type and parking lot signs designating where you may park on the University of Arkansas campus are as follows:

Garages: Parking for assigned Reserved and All Area permit holders. Hourly parking also available.

Garland Avenue Parking Facility Reserved: Parking for assigned Reserved and All Area permit holders only. Metered parking is also available.

Reserved Faculty/Staff: Parking for assigned Reserved and All Area permit holders only. Each lot is designated by matching permit and lot sign letter.

Faculty/staff Parking for Faculty/Staff, Emeritus, Reserved and All Area permit holders.

Resident Reserved: Parking for assigned resident student reserved permit holders only. Each zone is designated by matching permit and lot sign zone number.

Student: Parking for Reserved, Faculty/Staff, Resident Reserved, Student and All Area permit holders.

Remote: Parking for Reserved, Faculty/Staff, Resident Reserved, Student, Remote and All Area permit holders.

Parking Meters: Parking for anyone paying the meter. Parking at an inoperable meter is prohibited.

Short-term Parking Meters: These meters are in gold colored housings and require payment at all times. They provide 20 minute parking for brief stops at campus buildings. Violators parked at these meters can be cited every 20 minutes.

Motorcycle: Parking for motorcycles only. Motorcycles may also park in unoccupied parking meter spaces by paying the meter fee. Motorcycles may not park in Reserved, Faculty/Staff, Student, Remote or Harmon Avenue Parking Facilityparking spaces.

Scooter Parking: Scooters (two wheeled motorized vehicles under 50 cc) parked on campus must display a current University of Arkansas scooter permit and may park at bicycle racks within 50 feet or a road or street. According to Arkansas Law, scooters my not be ridden on the sidewalk. If you are parking your scooter at a bicycle rack, it must be pushed on the sidewalk to the rack. The scooter permit does not authorize parking in University of Arkansas motorcycle or car parking spaces. The purpose of registering the scooter is to allow the Transit and Parking Department or University Police Department to contact the owner in case the scooter must be moved.

Reserved lots 2, 4, 8 and 61 are reserved for Faculty/staff Reserved and Faculty/staff permit holders from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Thursday, during the fall and spring semesters.

During summer school only, all current permits may park in Resident Reserved, Student and Remote parking lots except in the Garland Avenue Parking Facility and Carlson Terrace Resident Reserved lots, which are reserved at all times for residents only.

8. Accessible Parking

Annual handicap parking permits will be issued at the normal cost to any student or employee who has a state handicap parking placard or license plate issued in their name. Temporary handicap parking permits will be issued for the same length of time as the state temporary placard or for a maximum of 90 days based on an appropriate and licensed physician's statement recommending a temporary handicap permit. The appropriate permit type, with the addition of a handicap logo, will be issued for the standard fee. The handicap permit allows parking in lots designated as Faculty/Staff, Student, Remote, and in University of Arkansas regular parking meters without paying the meter fee; short-term and Garland Avenue Parking Facility meters excluded. Meter payment is required in the accessible parking spaces in the Garland Avenue Parking Facility unless a Garland Avenue Parking Facility Reserved handicap permit is displayed.

9. Special Events Parking

University of Arkansas units or individuals sponsoring any special campus event requiring campus parking for visitors are responsible for requesting parking arrangements at least five days before the event. University of Arkansas Policy 302. 1 covers the parking requirements for special events.

10. Motor Vehicle Immobilizing, Towing, Impounding and Release

11. General Information

12. Parking Enforcement

13. Finals and Summer Parking Information

Parking regulations will be enforced during final exams. Lot 2 (between Plant Sciences and Memorial Hall), 4(east of the Fine Arts Theatre), 7, 8 and 9 (north of the Home Economics and Agriculture Buildings), and 61 (around the McIlroy House) will be reserved on Finals Saturdays for Reserved and Faculty/staff permit holders who will be working that day. Resident Reserved permit requirements will be enforced until 5 p.m. on the last day of finals each semester.

After Finals and before classes resume for the next semester, Resident Reserved lots, with the exception of 56B, 56C, 56D, 56E, and 56F at Carlson Terrace, and the Resident Reserved parking spaces in the Garland Avenue Parking Facility, will be open for all permit types. The new Harmon Avenue Parking Facility and the Garland Avenue Parking Facility will require permits or payment year around.

14. Administrative Charges for Traffic and Parking Violations

Moving Violation Administrative Charges

Parking Violation Administrative Charges

Administrative charges for late payment of a traffic or parking violation citation will be $5 after 60 days and additional $5 charges after 120 and 180 days of nonpayment, from the date the citation was issued. Parking citations may be paid in person at the Transit and Parking Department, by mail, or by phone using a credit card.

15. Appeals

Anyone having a valid reason to appeal a parking violation, placement of a boot or a vehicle tow may file an appeal form for the UA Parking and Traffic Appeals Court at the Transit and Parking Department, 155 Razorback Road, within five class days of the date of the citation. All UA Parking citations must either be appealed within five class days or paid. Appeals will incur a $10 administrative fee. All tickets must be paid if the vehicle has been booted or towed. The tickets as well as placement of a boot or tow and associated fees may then be appealed. If the written appeal is upheld the appeal fee will be refunded. If the written appeal is denied, a request for an oral appeal may be filed within ten days of written appeal denial. Traffic citations are to be appealed at the University Police Department.

16. Razorback Transit Bus Service

Razorback Transit provides bus service on ten fixed routes, both on campus and to major off campus living and service areas, Monday through Friday, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on all University of Arkansas fall and spring semester registration, class, and final exam days. Reduced service is provided from 6 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 7 a.m. - 10:30 p.m. on Saturdays during the fall and spring semesters and from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, on other days. Anyone may ride Razorback Transit buses fare free. University of Arkansas students and employees are encouraged to use this reliable and convenient daily bus service. Bus maps and schedules are available at the Arkansas Union Information Desk, Hunt Hall lobby, on all buses, and the Transit and Parking Department. University of Arkansas students and employees who cannot access the regular route buses may apply for complementary paratransit van service, after obtaining certification from the Paratransit Eligibility Committee.

Campus parking space is almost always available in lot 56, at 6th Street and Razorback Road, and lots 44, 47N, 46, 72, 73 and 73A along Razorback Road. Green route buses stop near all of these lots every eight minutes during peak class times during the fall and spring semesters. These eight convenient Park and Ride locations and quick bus service provide access to the University of Arkansas main campus.

If you have any questions or suggestions concerning parking or transit services on the University of Arkansas campus, please contact the Transit and Parking Department, 131 Administrative Services Building, 155 Razorback Road, or call 575-PARK or 575-RIDE. Additional Transit and Parking information is available on our web site at: parking.uark.edu.

If you have comments or suggestions, email us at: parking@uark.edu or transit@uark.edu

This page was updated August 4, 2005