NEWPORT — Parking interlopers, beware.

        The city has started a test program of issuing resident parking stickers in three small sections of the East End.

        The program is aimed at freeing up spaces being taken by people visiting nearby entertainment venues.

        The test period runs from Nov. 1 through next July 1 and includes the 300 and 400 blocks of East Third Street, the 300 and 500 blocks of East Second Street, and the 100 and 200 blocks of Park Avenue.

        The police department began issuing the stickers, which are free to residents, Tuesday at the city building, 10th and Monmouth.

        Over the past year, city commissioners have received numerous complaints from residents of the historic East End neighborhoods that they were unable to park in front of their homes because other cars, often with out-of-state license tags, were taking up the parking spaces.

        “There's no question that at times parking is a real problem in this neighborhood,” said Corey Siddall, who lives at the corner of East Second and Park.

        “In the past we've seen people park on the streets here to go to ballgames across the river, or go to the restaurants along Riverboat Row.”

        The test area is within easy walking distance of the recently opened Newport on the Levee, and the Newport Aquarium.

        Mr. Siddall said he would wait to see whether the parking sticker program will work.

        “I haven't seen anything from the city telling us we can get the parking stickers,” he said Wednesday. “I know there are some signs that have been installed stating that there is "Resident Only' parking, but they need a lot more signs to make this work.”

        According to Lt. Phil Liles, Newport Police traffic commander, residents can pick up stickers for their vehicles by showing that the vehicle is registered at their address. Upon request, each resident will be issued a maximum of two parking permits for visitors. The permits will expire at the end of the test program.

        For the first two months of the test period, police will issue warning citations to vehicles parked in those areas without a resident sticker or visitor tag. If a vehicle receives two warning citations, the third infraction will result in a ticket.

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