Parking Services Dept.
Vehicle Registration
Special Circumstances
Rules and Regulations
Exceptional Circumstances
Appeals Process
Towing Policy
Penalties for Each Violation
Harding University permits all students to have and drive automobiles on campus and in the community under certain conditions and exceptions as cited below.
Vehicle Registration
New Student Instructions for Registration PDF
- All students enrolled at Harding University, living on or off campus, and their spouses, must register their vehicles. When a student changes vehicles during the school year, the student may re-use their original sticker for the new vehicle. The vehicle registration information must be updated online.
- To register your vehicle, click here. Important - Your ID number is the first nine letters and digits on your Harding University ID card.
- All vehicles driven on the campus of Harding University must be properly licensed and registered with Parking Services.
- All students, faculty, and staff members who own one or more vehicles are required to register the vehicle(s) and correctly display a valid parking permit.
- From the DPS web site, follow the link for Online Parking Registration above.
- Permits must be affixed to the vehicle in the manner in which they were designed by the manufacturer. This will constitute the final phase of vehicle registration. The permit must be correctly/permanently affixed to the proper location to avoid penalty.
Special Circumstances
Physically disabled persons who are connected with the University and who suffer a permanent or temporary physical disability may apply at the Parking Services Office for special parking consideration.
Faculty, staff, and students who have a motor vehicle registered and, for some extraordinary circumstance, find it necessary to operate and park an unregistered vehicle on campus, may obtain a temporary permit, for a period of no longer than two weeks, without cost from the Parking Services Office.
Graduate students are required to register their vehicles with Parking Services. A student sticker must be displayed on the vehicle in order to avoid penalty.
Anyone who registers a vehicle using fraudulent information is subject to disciplinary action.
Rules and Regulations
Each person operating a vehicle on campus is held responsible for becoming acquainted with and obeying the traffic regulations of the University.
Vehicles must be parked in designated slots.
Vehicles are considered parked when not moving.
Tickets are written 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Example: If a vehicle is parked in a handicap slot, loading zone or staff area, it is subject to a ticket every hour (also see towing policy).
Reserved slots are restricted 24 hours a day.
Students may park in staff areas from 5:30 PM to 7:30 AM, unless otherwise restricted.
Loading zones are for emergency and maintenance vehicles. Student loading and unloading will be allowed for 15 minutes.
Overnight parking (curfew to 7:00 AM) is NOT allowed on the north and east sides of campus, as indicated on the Campus Parking Map.
No vehicle shall be parked in such a fashion as to obstruct pedestrian or vehicle traffic.
Double parking is not permitted on campus at any time.
Parking is prohibited for vehicles in the following areas:
- All areas not distinctly designated as parking areas
- Red curbs
- Service zones, lanes and roads
- Traffic lanes within parking lots
- On the grass or sidewalks
- On a pedestrian crossing
- Handicap loading zones
Students driving vehicles with faculty/staff stickers are required to park in student parking.
A record will be kept of all fees and penalties assessed. Students may not register for the next semester until all fees have been paid.
Exceptional Circumstances
When leaving campus for Thanksgiving, spring or summer break, campaigns, or for a few days, leave your vehicle parked in student parking or call the Parking Services Office.
If you park illegally because of car failure, notify the Parking Services Office, day or night. You will be required to move the vehicle within 24 hours.
Appeals Process
An appeals process is available online. Follow the Parking Registration link on the DPS web site and then click on the Citations button.
Towing Policy
The University reserves the right to remove or have removed by impounding any vehicle parked in such a way as to constitute a serious hazard or that impedes vehicular or pedestrian traffic movement, the operation of emergency equipment, the making of essential repairs and services, or for other cogent reasons, such as continuous parking violations (five tickets) or abandoned vehicles. Owners of such vehicles will be required to pay all costs involved in removing, impounding and storing such vehicles.
Penalties for Each Violation
- Parked in a handicap slot or blocking a handicap ramp $30
- Parked in a staff slot or reserved slot $15
- Parked in a service zone or fire zone $15
- Not parked in a designated slot $15
- Blocking traffic flow or double parked $15
- Parked in a loading zone over 15 minutes $15
- Parked in a time zone over 15 minutes $15
- Registration sticker not visible $30
- Blocking pedestrian traffic flow $15
- Parked in a no parking zone $15
- Parked in a no overnight parking zone $15
Pay Tickets either online or at the Business Office.
Tickets will be turned over to the Business Office after 10 days with a $5 late fee and forfeit of appeal.
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