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Responsibilities of the Parking Office are shared between the Financial Services, 103 Swords Hall and General Services, 100 Macmillan Hall.

Financial Services handles all permit services, including replacement permits, temporary permits, and payment for permit sales and parking fines. Permit services are available at the Financial Services and Cashier Windows, 103 Swords Hall, Monday through Friday during posted business hours.

Parking Regulations

Any motor vehicle parked on University property in regulated spaces must display a valid Bradley University parking permit or pass. The type of permit indicates the areas where the vehicle may be parked.

Any vehicle which has accumulated five (5) or more unpaid parking citations or which inhibits traffic flow, hampers fire protection, is parked illegally in a reserved or handicapped space, blocks handicapped access, displays a lost/stolen or forged/altered parking permit is subject to immediate towing and impoundment.

Parking permits are required from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. The Visitors lot is a reserved area. All faculty, staff and students are prohibited from parking within this area unless otherwise notified. These regulations are subject to change without notice when necessary to facilitate the parking or safety program of the University. When changes are necessary and have been approved by the University, an announcement will be made, if possible, in appropriate University publications, prior to the effective date of the change.

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Swords Hall
(309) 677-2227
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Additional Information

When a significant accumulation of snow occurs students, faculty and staff are strongly encouraged to remove cars from Elmwood Street, Bradley Avenue, the St. James complex, and on-campus surface lots to the parking decks to facilitate snow removal. Once the streets and lots have been cleared of snow, regular University parking regulations will be enforced.

During snowfall periods please watch for NO PARKING signs posted in campus lots. Facilities will periodically need to close these lots for snow removal. Signage will be posted well in advance. Violators will be ticketed and/or towed. Lots impacted include:

Corner of Bradley Avenue and Duryea Place
Visitors Center
Between the Continuing Education Building and Geisert Hall

The City of Peoria also enforces parking bans on designated City Snow Routes when snowfall is two (2”) or more inches. Parked vehicles must be removed from marked Snow Routes to enable City of Peoria crews to clear the routes properly and safely. Snow Routes include Bradley Avenue, Main Street, and University Street. Violators will be ticketed $50 every 24 hours if not moved, and towed. Motorists who have parked vehicles on non-routed streets are encouraged to move their vehicles off-street to facilitate plowing efforts. If in doubt, avoid parking on a City street during a snow event.

More information on City of Peoria snow routes and snow removal can be found online.

Additional Resource:

Peoria Public Works Department’s Snow Plan

If you wish to park a motorcycle on campus and have purchased a valid University vehicle parking permit, please stop by the Cashier windows in Swords Hall between 9:00 AM and 4:00 PM Monday thru Friday to obtain a motorcycle parking permit. Parking will provide you with two identically numbered key tags and zip ties. One of the key tags is to be zip tied to your motorcycle handle bar in a visible location which will not interfere with your operation of the motorcycle. The other key tag will serve as your backup permit and can be easily stored on your key ring for convenience.

Motorcycle permits will continue to be “free” if a regular parking permit is purchased. Your motorcycle permit will remain valid as long you have a valid vehicle parking permit.

Accessible Parking

The Bradley University Parking rules and regulations are applicable to an All-Access Handicap Only Parking or Dedicated Parking Space hang tag permit. If a vehicle is parked in a handicap space, the vehicle must display a current University issued permit for the designated area with a valid state issued disability parking placard/license plates or an All-Access Handicap Only Parking hang tag with a valid state issued disability parking placard/license plates.

To be eligible for Accessible Parking, the University employee or University student must have a vehicle registered with the University and be in possession of a valid BU parking permit. Requests for Accessible Parking must be approved through the Human Resources Office (HR) for University employees or the Office of Student Access Services (SAS) for University students.
To make parking arrangements for Accessible Parking, the University employee or University student who will require long-term accessible parking (6 months or longer) must present a valid state issued disability parking placard to HR for University employees or to SAS for University students.
Those individuals requiring short-term Accessible Parking (less than 6 months) will need to present a signed doctor’s note on official letterhead indicating start and end date of the requested accommodation to HR for University employees or to SAS for University students
Once the Human Resources Office or the Office of Student Access Services has approved the request for Accessible Parking, the respective Office will submit an e-mail to [email protected] stating the individual has been approved for Accessible Parking.

There are two forms of Accessible Parking offered by Bradley University:

Dedicated Parking Space will allow one existing parking space to be assigned (where available) to the designated individual with a twenty-four (24) hour signage for enforcement purposes for a pre-determined period of time. The holder of a Dedicated Parking Space can only park in the specifically assigned Dedicated Parking Space. Parking in any other space will result in the issuance of a parking citation.
All-Access Handicap Only Parking will allow for handicap parking in any campus surface lot or in any deck designated visitor, faculty/staff, or commuter for a pre-determined period of time. It will not allow parking in the St James complex for non-St. James residents, loading zones, or no parking zones. Parking in a handicap spot requires a valid state issued handicap placard or handicap license plates. Parking in any space other than a handicap spot with an All-Access Handicap Only Parking hang tag will result in the issuance of a parking citation.

Individuals selecting this option must surrender their current University parking permit to obtain the All-Access Handicap Only Parking hang tag at the Controller’s Office – Cashier Windows during regular business hours 9:000 AM to 4:00 PM Monday thru Friday. The will be no additional charge for an All-Access Handicap Only Parking hang tag. An All-Access Handicap Only Parking hang tag can be issued for any length of time during the academic year. When the All-Access Handicap Only Parking hang tag expires, the hang tag must be returned to the Cashier’s in order to be issued the appropriate designated parking permit at no charge for the remainder of the parking year.

Individuals selecting this option must surrender their current permit for a Dedicated Parking Space hang tag at the Controller’s Office – Cashier Windows during regular business hours 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM Monday thru Friday. A Dedicated Parking Space hang tag permit can be issued for any length of time during a given academic year. The will be no additional charge for a Dedicated Parking Space hang tag. When the Dedicated Parking Space hang tag expires, the Dedicated Parking Space hang tag must be returned to the Cashier’s in order to be issued the appropriate designated parking permit at no charge for the remainder of the parking year. The holder of a Dedicated Parking Space hang tag is only permitted to park in the one specifically assigned Dedicated Parking Space. Parking in any other space will result in the issuance of a parking citation.

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