Additional Permit Information

Resident Student, Virtual Surface Lot Permit

City Campus Area R01 and R02

With this parking permit for a Resident Student, you will receive a Permit Event Sticker. It will be mailed to your campus address. The Event Sticker must be displayed for campus parking during major campus events, including home football games.

• As a campus resident, you may only park in your assigned lot on home football days.
• The Event Sticker verifies the purchase of a parking permit to event staff.
• Display sticker on inside front vehicle window, lower driver’s side.
• Failure to display this Event Sticker can result in denying access to your parking facility.

East Campus Area E
With the campus License Plate Recognition System, your vehicle license plate serves as your parking permit identification. Permit holders will not automatically receive any physical permit or sticker to display in the vehicle. If the vehicle will be parked on campus parking during major campus events, including home football games, a Permit Event sticker must be displayed.

• To receive the Permit Event Sticker, use your official UNL email account and send the request to Parking and Transit Services at unlpts@unl.edu
  It will be mailed to your campus address.
  
  Permit holders also may go to the Parking and Transit Services office, located at 625 Stadium Drive, Suite A. Complete an application to request and receive the sticker.
• The Event Sticker verifies the purchase of a parking permit to event staff.
• Display sticker on inside front vehicle window, lower driver’s side.
• Failure to display this Event Sticker can result in denying access to your parking facility

Resident Garage Permit

Area 14R, 17R, 18R, 19R, 50/50

A garage hangtag accompanies each garage parking permit. The hangtag will be mailed to your address provided during purchase. Garage permit hangtags contain RFID which uses radio frequency signals to communicate with gate readers. Each tag is valid only in the assigned garage. Please remove any expired garage hangtags from your vehicle.

• With the campus License Plate Recognition System, your vehicle license plate and hangtag serves as your parking permit identification; the hangtag is required to enter and exit the garage.
• Permit is valid only in your assigned garage on home football days. This hangtag verifies the purchase of a parking permit to event staff.
• Verify permit matches parking garage for your residence.
• Permit is valid in other campus areas at set times.
• Details: parking.unl.edu and select Student Parking Options.

Faculty, Staff and Commuter Student, Virtual Surface Lot Permit, Reserved and Non-Reserved

Area F01 -F17, D01, D02, A, EM, C
 

With the campus License Plate Recognition System, your vehicle license plate serves as your parking permit identification. Permit holders will not automatically receive any physical permit or sticker to display in the vehicle.

If the vehicle will be parked on campus parking during major campus events, including home football games, a Permit Event sticker must be displayed.

• To receive the Permit Event Sticker, use your official UNL email account and send the request to Parking and Transit Services at unlpts@unl.edu
  It will be mailed to your campus address.
  
  Permit holders also may go to the Parking and Transit Services office, located at 625 Stadium Drive, Suite A. Complete an application to request and receive the sticker.
• The Event Sticker verifies the purchase of a parking permit to event staff.
• Display sticker on inside front vehicle window, lower driver’s side.
• Failure to display this Event Sticker can result in denying access to your parking facility.

Garage Permit

Area 14F, 17F, 19F, SGF

Area 14C, 17C, 19C, SGC
 

A garage hangtag accompanies each garage parking permit. The hangtag will be mailed to your address provided during purchase. Garage permit hangtags contain RFID which uses radio frequency signals to communicate with gate readers. Each tag is valid only in the assigned garage. Please remove any expired garage hangtags from your vehicle.

• With the campus License Plate Recognition System, your vehicle license plate and hangtag serves as your parking permit identification; the hangtag is required to enter and exit the garage.
• Permit is not valid in your assigned garage on home football days.
• Permit is valid in other campus areas at set times.

Area F10, SA, RS - Hangtag
 

A hangtag accompanies each Area F10, SA and RS parking permit that allows access to your assigned area and all permitted parking areas on City and East Campus. Use caution when parking in smaller, reserved areas as you may displace a permit holder for that area.  The hangtag will be mailed to your address provided during purchase. The hangtags contain RFID which uses radio frequency signals to that allows access to the 14^th & Avery, 17^th & R, 19^th & Vine, and Stadium Drive Garages.

Husker Safe Walk

The UNL Police Department offers a courtesy Husker Safe Walk program where a Community Service Officer is dispatched, upon availability, to accompany you to your vehicle or while you await the arrival of your transportation at night. There maybe an up to 15-minutes response time. Visit the link for more information.

Vehicle Registration

In order to legally park a vehicle in UNL controlled lots, all faculty, staff and students must register that vehicle with UNL Parking and Transit Services and have a valid UNL Parking Permit. Vehicle registration is part of the permit purchase process. If you need to register your vehicle to park on campus without purchasing a permit, please see the short-term options section.

Vehicle Registration Changes

Your license plate is the identifier for your permit; if you change your vehicle details (vehicle, license plates, name, or address), report these changes promptly. Submit changes online, phone (402-472-1800), or by email.

Address Changes

In the event of a change in residence or mailing address, the new information must be submitted to UNL MyRed for students and to Firefly for faculty and staff.

Cancellations and Refunds

Students

A permit purchased after the second week of classes and returned within a two-week period will be charged for two weeks, with the balance refunded. After the two-week period, the permit return value follows the regular return schedule.

The refund for a permit purchased on or before the first day of fall semester will be made on this schedule:

Fall Semester

Week 1-2: 100% of the original fee

Week 3: 75% of the original fee

Week 4 through the end of the semester: 50% of the original fee

Spring Semester

Week 1-2: 50% of the original fee

Week 3: 25% of the original fee

Week 4 through the end of the semester: No refund

To cancel a campus parking permit to stop further payment or request a refund:

Send an email from your official UNL email account to Parking and Transit Services unlpts@unl.edu.

State that you want to cancel the permit immediately and send.

For Virtual permits, this completes the process.

For permits with an actual display permit (garage hang tag or Event Sticker):

1. Write the official email request
2. Provide evidence of destruction of the permit. Take a picture of the permit cut in half, with the permit number clearly showing. Attach the picture to the email and send. This will cancel your permit as of the date you send the email.
3. OR: Bring or mail the permit to Parking and Transit Services, 625 Stadium Drive, Suite A, Lincoln, NE 68588-0161.

 If original payment was made with a consolidated student bill, a credit will be posted back to the student consolidated bill. If payment was made via cash or credit/debit card, a check for the refund amount will be mailed within 6 weeks, or a refund may be issued to the credit card that was used for the purchase.

• If permit is cancelled before the consolidated bill is in the system, there will not be a second permit billing entry.

Faculty and Staff

To return an annual or 9 month campus parking permit, to stop further payroll deductions or request a refund:

Send an email from your official UNL email account to Parking and Transit Services unlpts@unl.edu.

State that you want to cancel the permit immediately and send.

For Virtual permits, this completes the process.

For permits with an actual display permit (garage hang tag or Event Sticker):

1. Write the official email request.
2. Provide evidence of destruction of the permit. Take a picture of the permit cut in half, with the permit number clearly showing. Attach the picture to the email and send.
3. OR: Bring or mail the permit to Parking and Transit Services, 625 Stadium Drive, Suite A, Lincoln, NE 68588-0161.

 Faculty and staff must return any bus pass issued with the permit.

• Refund amount for a fully paid permit equals a daily prorated cost, minus any unpaid citations.
• A check for the refund amount will be mailed within 6 weeks, if a credit card refund cannot be issued.
• To stop a payroll deduction, return the issued permit to the Parking and Transit Services office. Payroll deductions will stop on the pay period after which no parking services were used. Payroll deductiions cannot be prorated by the day.

University Parking and Transit Services reserves the right to change or temporarily suspend existing policies due to unforeseen situations or events.

Multiple vehicles and permits

If a household includes multiple drivers, multiple vehicles and multiple campus parking permits, it is important to note:

• A permit holder may have only three vehicles associated to a valid permit at any given point in time; only one vehicle may use the permit at a time.
• A vehicle and license plate can be assigned/linked to only one campus parking permit at a time.
• A vehicle parked on campus must be in the designated permit area that includes that vehicle.
• If needed, household members can delete a vehicle from one permit and add to another permit. The vehicle can then be parked in that designated permit area.

To change vehicle assignment:

Log into the Parking Portal 

Sign into your account

Under Permits (on the left column of the form), Select View Your Permits

Select the Permit Number link

Select the vehicle that you want to unlink and click on Delete

To assign to a different permit:

Select the registered vehicle and the Add Selected Vehicle button.

Permit Display

All parked vehicles shall display a valid UNL permit (license plate, decal, hangtag). Vehicles parked without a valid permit may be issued a citation and may be impounded at the owner's expense. All permitted vehicles shall display a license plate visible to the patrol vehicle from the drive aisle.

• Permit decals must be properly displayed affixed to the lower driver's side windshield on the interior of window glass so entire permit is visible from outside the vehicle.
• Permit hangtags must be hung from the rearview mirror with the permit information displayed visible from outside the vehicle.
• Virtual, decal and garage permits - A license plates must be visible to the patrol vehicle from the drive aisle.

With the campus License Plate Recognition System, your vehicle license plate serves as your parking permit identification. It will provide access to designated parking areas across the UNL campus

Decal Permit Display Guideline

The decal permit is designed to be removed and re-applied in another vehicle that is registered to your permit.

• The vehicle must park so a license plate is visible from the patrol vehicle from the drive aisle.
• Permit must be easily visible from the outside.
• Remove the protective cover and apply the sticker permit to the lower driver’s side windshield on the INTERIOR of the window glass. The permit may not be altered, applied to other material, or taped into place.
• This permit is in effect only for the dates that appear on the sticker

Virtual Permit

The vehicle must park so a license plate is visible from the patrol vehicle from the drive aisle. License plate must be prominently displayed at all times in the front or rear of the vehicle (Nebraska Revised Statute 60-3,100). License plates must be displayed on the vehicle in the appropriate locations.

Garage Hangtags

Garage Permits are valid only in their assigned garages. These areas are video monitored. To avoid citations, permits are required at all times. Non-permit users must provide payment when gates are in operation 6:00 am – 11:30 pm.

Garage permit hangtags contains RFID which uses radio frequency signals to communicate with gate readers so please follow the guidelines below to ensure a smooth entry and exit from these parking garages.

Display your hangtag from the rear-view mirror without any obstructions. This allows gate readers to scan and receive the radio frequency with ease. Some vehicle designs make it difficult for a clear RFID signal transmission. If you have difficulty with gate access, place the hangtag flat against the windshield surface so the permit can be scanned easily.

The vehicle must park so a license plate is visible from the patrol vehicle from the drive aisle.

Remove any expired garage parking permits. They can interfere with scanning the valid permit

• If you have difficulty entering or exiting the parking garage, press the CALL intercom button once. UNL Parking and Transit Services monitors calls between 7:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. and may be able to provide remote assistance.

Replace a Lost or Stolen Permit

If your permit is lost or stolen, you must report the loss to Parking and Transit Services. A free temporary permit will be issued for two weeks. If the permit is not located within those two weeks, you may purchase a new permit for $30.00. If the original permit is recovered, the replacement fee will be refunded.