The “housing insecure,” city officials say, are regularly parking their large recreational vehicles in stalls the city has set aside for patrons of Auburn’s parks, and are parking across the lines.

This practice interferes with the normal use and enjoyment of Auburn’s parks, they say, but a gap in the city code has hamstrung parking enforcement officers from doing anything to stop it.

On June 2, the Auburn City Council closed that gap by approving a slate of new rules that gives parking enforcement officers the ability to issue tickets for these violations.

“This ordinance would give authority to parking enforcement to ticket violators who park across several stalls designated for patrons. It would also serve as a basis for Human Services to contact violators and encourage them to avail themselves of Human Services resources,” said Councilmember Yolanda Trout Manuel.

Here are the new rules:

• No person shall park any recreational vehicle, as defined in the city code, in the lots indicated for more than 24 hours;

• All vehicles using a parking lot adjacent to a city-owned park, or a parking lot designated for the use of park patrons, must park within the lines or markings;

• In any place where parallel parking is permitted or required, it is illegal to park a vehicle with the wheels of the vehicle more than one foot from the curb closest to the vehicle;

• In any place where angle parking is permitted or required, it is unlawful to angle park a vehicle otherwise than with the right front wheel abutting against and touching the curb immediately in front of the vehicle where there is such a curb;

• Where angle parking is designated by lines drawn on the pavement or curbs, all vehicles must be angle-parked in a manner that the entire vehicle is within the stall or parking space designated by the lines;

• It is illegal to parallel park a vehicle at any location designated for angle parking, nor angle park a vehicle at any location designated for parallel parking;

• On portions of the parking lot where angle parking is allowed, it is unlawful to angle park a vehicle more than 20 feet long overall.

Scofflaws will incur a fine of $50 per violation, in addition to other costs and assessments the law provides. A violation will be considered a parking infraction processed in accordance with state statutes, court rules and city ordinances regarding parking infractions.

Each calendar day during which a violation occurs will constitute a separate infraction, and each instance when a recreational vehicle or trailer parks at a location in violation of this section will be a separate violation, according to the ordinance. RVs parked in violation of this section are subject to impoundment.

The mayor is authorized to implement those administrative procedures necessary to carry out the directives of this legislation.