Parking Guidelines
To operate or benefit from the use of a motor vehicle on campus, each member of the ¸£Àû¼§ community must register their license plate, pay for parking, park in an authorized area, and display their license plate to the driving aisle.
All visitors, faculty, staff, students (full or part-time), and employees of private contractors or other government agencies assigned to ¸£Àû¼§ who operate a vehicle on university property, regularly or occasionally, are required to obtain a parking permit at all times.
FOLLOW THESE GUIDELINES to park ON CAMPUS
Register your license plate.
You can register your license plate through the parking portal at shsu.edu/park for annual permits or through the ParkMobile app for hourly parking. No person may register a motor vehicle in his or her name which belongs to another student, faculty, or staff member.
By registering a vehicle for issuance or purchase of a permit or permission to park, vehicle operators consent to ¸£Àû¼§’s use of automated license plate recognition technology in accordance with ¸£Àû¼§ policy FO-31.2. The license plate of a vehicle followed by make, model, color, and year, is required for registration and must be kept current and up to date by the operator or custodian of the vehicle.
Select your permit.
The various classes of parking permits and their eligibility requirements, privileges, and limitations are described in the Permits section. Parking in a garage requires the appropriate annual permit, payment through the ParkMobile app, or an approved event pass.
Annual permits must be issued to a person and their registered vehicle no later than the first day that the vehicle is brought on campus. Hourly permits must be purchased within minutes of parking in an available space.
Park in your authorized area.
Each parking lot or garage shall be defined by appropriate signs and/or painted lines (when the parking area is paved). All spaces are designated, but not every space has a sign. It is the responsibility of the permit holder to park in the authorized area. Most lots are authorized for multiple types of permits.
Parking areas are designated by signs and/or color coding on a map obtained online at the P&T website at www. shsu.edu/parking. These signs and maps indicate the type of permit for which the area is reserved. Signs take priority over any printed map. In the presence of faded marker lines, the predominant marker line always takes priority over a faded, unmaintained paint marking. Any conflict in designation should be reported to P&T prior to attempting to park.
Certain parking spaces have been designated as hourly parking spaces. These spaces are designated to provide short-term parking for business access to the ¸£Àû¼§ Post Office, student center offices and other designated areas. Parking more than the specified time limit is prohibited. Citations may be issued for each segment of parking overtime.
Only Park one registered vehicle per annual permit at a time.
While you can register multiple vehicles in the portal or app, you can only park ONE vehicle on campus at a time.
Faculty and staff, whose dependents are students, may allow those dependents to register a commonly operated motor vehicle for a student parking permit in addition to the employee’s parking permit. If the faculty or staff member has two motor vehicles registered, and if both motor vehicles are on campus at the same time, the motor vehicle with the student permit must be parked in the designated student parking area and not in either the faculty or staff member’s reserved space, zone, or lot or in the time limit areas on campus.
Pay for parking.
For students, employees, and retirees, annual permits are paid for through the Cashier’s Office. Parking charges are applied to your university account on the following day from permit selection. Visitors can purchase annual permits with a credit or debit card through the parking portal. Anyone can purchase hourly or daily parking with a credit or debit card through the ParkMobile app. The Parking and Transportation Office cannot accept payment in person.
Display your license plate toward the driving aisle.
To verify your parking permissions, we use license plate recognition equipment and software which requires your license plate to be visible to the driving aisle.
All vehicles must be parked so that the license plate is visible from the driving aisle. The license plate must be securely fastened to the exterior side of the vehicle facing the driving aisle in a horizontal, upright position of not less than 12 inches from the ground. Removable tow hitches must be removed and stored when not in use. No covers may be placed over the license plate that would inhibit the reflectivity of the plate. The alphanumeric characters of the license plate must be visible and unobstructed by license plate frames or other accessories.