In order to park on campus, there is a process, and there are rules that need to be followed to avoid parking violations and tickets.
Paul Turner, director of public safety, shared the importance of students following parking regulations.
“We want to make sure that our handicapped parking spaces are accessible. We want to make sure our police and public safety spots are available when we have to respond to an emergency situation,” Turner said. “Just following the policy, it’s something you have to do here on campus.”
Students are required to register their vehicles and maintain a valid permit authorizing the parking of their vehicle on campus. This can be done through NSU’s parking portal, on novapark.nupark.com/v2/Portal. Students will need to provide their vehicle information, such as license plate number, color and model.
A SharkFin parking sticker should be displayed on the vehicle. This can be picked up at the One-Stop Shop in the Horvitz Administration Building.
Residential students can only park in their assigned parking lot. Non-residential students cannot park in the residential lots.
NSU’s parking system utilizes license plate recognition to manage parked vehicles, requiring vehicles to park head-in only.
“We have an LPR system, a license plate reader, in order for us to read the license plates,” said St. Aubyn Lue, manager of special events in Public Safety. “Florida is a one-plate state. It’s only in the back. If [you have] a Florida license plate and if you back in, there’s no front license plate, then we’re not able to monitor the vehicles that way.”
Failing to register a vehicle or parking the wrong way can lead to a parking infraction.
“When they get a violation, they receive a sticker on their vehicle. They can go through a 14-day appeal process. We can look at the reason they received the violation, and see if there was a mitigating circumstance for receiving that,” Turner said. “We will make a determination if we change it to a warning, totally omit the violation from the record or they must pay it.”
First-time violators get the option to make a donation to the Shark Pantry that can cover the amount of the violation.
Failing to pay a parking citation can lead to additional fines, towing and holding of transcripts as well as appearing in the student’s record as an amount owed to the university.
“We’re just trying to compel compliance. I mean, the way the rules are out, we just want people to follow those rules. We want people to register their vehicles. And we just want people to follow the policies out there,” Turner said.
To contact public safety, students can email parkingservices@nova.edu or call 954-262-8984.
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