General Parking Regulations
- Decals: All vehicles used by resident students, commuter students, or off-campus students, are required to display a current decal on the top, left, rear window. The parking decal must be affixed conspicuously for easy identification.
- Parking: Vehicles shall not back into spaces or pull through spaces. The rear of the vehicle must always be visible for quick identification.
- Insurance & registration: All vehicles must be insured and have a current state registration decal located on license plate. Vehicles not having current registration or insurance will be considered as abandoned and will be subject to towing and storage fees.
- Temporary registration: Temporary vehicle registrations are valid for one week with a maximum of two requests. Temporary registration form is at bottom of this webpage. Any automobile or motorcycle that exceeds the two weeks of temporary registration between July 1 and June 30 is required to obtain a permanent registration. Temporary parking registrations are placed in the database, allowing officers to confirm if a vehicle belongs or does not. No pass is issued for display purposes. Students with temporary vehicles can park in their respective lots with a temporary pass. Visitors must park in the Belk Lot located across from Belk Hall.
- Handicap Parking: Parking in any designated handicap space is prohibited by law unless a legal handicap placard, assigned to the operator, is displayed on the vehicle. It is a violation of the law to use a placard intended for someone else. $1,000 fine.
- Vehicles parked on campus or adjoining streets may only be parked on paved parking lots or campus streets. All vehicles must be parked within the marked, designated areas
- Driving or parking on grass, sidewalks, or landscape: To keep our campus beautiful, violators will be fined for driving, parking, or any action that could potentially cause property damage to the grounds. In addition to the fine, restitution will be assessed if any damage occurs.
- Vehicles shall not park with the left wheels to the curb (parking on opposite side of road facing traffic). If this occurs, violators will be ticketed.
Parking Signage & No Parking Zones
NO PARKING zones: Any location which is not designated as a parking space:
- Any location with yellow paint: These are designated as fire lanes. Parking in the fire lanes will result in being ticketed and/or towed.
- No Student Parking AT ANY TIME in these locations: Washington Street, Belk Parking Lot, Young Street, Baseball/Galloway Lot, Football Offices, Bonner Circle, Robinson Circle, and Field House.
- Any street, curb, or side of the roadway that does not have a designated parking space is considered a no-parking zone. Not all zones will have “No Parking” signage as a courtesy.
- Any location which is designed for the flow of traffic.
Off-Campus Parking – please be courteous to our local businesses:
- Parking in the U.S. Post Office lot and in spaces on the street beside Post Office is for Post Office customers only. Violators are subject to being towed.
- Parking in the parking lots of our local businesses are for customers only. Violators will be ticketed.
- Please pay attention to “Timed Parking” in downtown.
Parking Tickets
- Tickets may be paid online at https://www.erskine.edu/financedivision/ or in person at the Finance Division Office located at 2 Washington Street.
- Fines are due 5 days from the date of issuance.
- All fines will be doubled if not paid by the fine due date.
- If a fine is not paid within 10 days after the fine due date, the vehicle will receive a boot
Multiple Tickets:
- Any student who receives more than three tickets in any one semester may be referred to the Ticket Appeals Board concerning loss of vehicle privileges while enrolled for the remainder of that semester or the next semester or as otherwise designated by a hearing body.
- When a vehicle has been deemed “failed to comply,” for example, 3 tickets for the same violation, a boot may be applied to the vehicle until the vehicle becomes in compliance.
- Once five tickets are received, automatic loss of privileges.
- If your vehicle has received a boot, you must pay all fines in full within 48 hours of the application of the boot. In addition to paying all fines in full, a $50 boot removal fee is required to have the boot removed.
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Any tampering with Erskine parking boots will result in criminal charges.
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The Finance Division will notify CPT for removal of the boot. If a vehicle has a boot for more than 5 business days, the vehicle will be towed from Erskine College property at owner’s expense.
Parking Permits
- A vehicle registration form must be completed with the correct information. False or incorrect information given will be ruled as a violation and will be subject to a fine and/or loss of parking privileges and/or vehicle boot. Changes with vehicles, color changes, license plate changes, or other identifying changes will require you to complete another vehicle registration form so that the database can be updated. Failure to comply will result in a fine and/or loss of parking privileges and/or vehicle boot.
- Any vehicle parked on the campus is subject to search provided there is probable cause. This search would follow the same procedure as followed for a room search.
Parking Zones
No Student Parking:
These zones are reserved for visitors or special events on the campus of Erskine College. With limited parking available, respect our fans and visitors by not parking in this designated area. Any registered student vehicle parked in No Student Parking Lots/Zones will be ticketed.
Aramark Employees (Effective September 1, 2026)
- Aramark employees must have their vehicle properly registered with Erskine College and must properly display the assigned ARA- parking permit on the left rear window, driver’s side. The permit must always remain clearly visible from outside the vehicle while parked on Erskine College property.
- Dining Services: Dining Services employees should park in the designated LOT A while working their regularly assigned duties. When working a special event at another campus location, employees may utilize an appropriate parking area reasonably near the location of the event, provided the vehicle is parked in a regular, authorized parking space and does not interfere with traffic, emergency access, campus operations, or spaces designated for a specific purpose.
- Facilities Management – Custodial: Custodial employees may park in regular parking lots or spaces reasonably close to the building or area where they are actively performing assigned work. This allowance is intended to provide reasonable access to work locations while maintaining the same general parking expectations applicable throughout campus. Fire lanes, accessible/handicap spaces, reserved spaces, loading zones, service spaces, sidewalks, grass areas, travel lanes, and areas designated No Parking remain restricted unless the space is specifically authorized for the employee’s use or an immediate operational need requires otherwise.
- The location of an employee’s work assignment does not, by itself, change the designated purpose of a parking space. Employees reporting to a building for routine custodial duties, meetings, meals, breaks, training, or other normal activities should utilize an appropriate regular parking space.
- Facilities Management – Maintenance: Maintenance employees may park in regular parking lots or spaces reasonably close to their assigned work location. When the nature of an active maintenance assignment requires immediate access to tools, equipment, materials, or supplies from a vehicle, reasonable temporary access may be necessary near the work location.
- Such operational access should be limited to the time reasonably necessary to perform the work requiring the vehicle’s proximity. Once that need has concluded, the vehicle should be returned to an appropriate regular parking space. Routine work, administrative duties, meetings, meals, breaks, or general convenience should ordinarily be handled using normal parking areas.
- Nothing in this provision should obstruct a fire lane, fire department connection, fire hydrant, emergency access route, accessible entrance, travel lane, building entrance/exit, or other life-safety feature. When emergency or urgent repair conditions require unusual vehicle placement, the vehicle should be positioned in the safest reasonable location and moved as soon as the operational need has ended.
- Reserved and Special-Use Parking: Spaces marked Reserved, Handicap/Accessible, Visitor, Loading/Unloading, Service Vehicle, No Parking, or otherwise designated for a particular individual, department, vehicle type, or purpose retain that designation. An employee’s work assignment near one of these spaces does not automatically authorize its use. Operational exceptions should have a direct connection to the work actively being performed.
- All Aramark employees are expected to help maintain a consistent campus parking environment. Because employee and contractor vehicles are highly visible throughout campus, appropriate parking practices help reinforce the same expectations communicated to students, employees, visitors, and other members of the Erskine community.
- Vehicles not displaying the appropriate permit, vehicles parked outside the provisions above, or vehicles otherwise in violation of Erskine College parking regulations may be subject to parking enforcement.
- Temporary vehicle registration forms are to be completed below. Temporary vehicle registrations are valid for one week with a maximum of two requests. Any automobile or motorcycle that exceeds the two weeks of temporary registration between July 1 and June 30 is required to obtain a permanent registration. Temporary parking registrations are placed in the database, allowing officers to confirm if a vehicle belongs or does not. No pass is issued for display purposes. Students with temporary vehicles can park in their respective lots with a temporary pass. Visitors must park in the Belk Lot located across from Belk Hall.
