Camden County, NJ Animal Ordinances: Wildlife Feeding (2026)

Article 4, Section 20 of the Camden County Park Regulations governs wildlife inside the Camden County Park System. Subsection (A) bars killing, wounding, trapping, hunting, removing or possessing any animal, reptile, bird, bird's nest or squirrel's nest, or taking the eggs or young of any bird, reptile or animal, though muskrats may be trapped under a required permit. " That second sentence exists because Camden County's park lakes (Newton Lake, Cooper River Park, Wallworth Park and others) draw resident Canada geese, and feeding them concentrates flocks, fouls swimming and walking areas, and creates the droppings and aggression problems the county cites informally on its parks page.

00 penalty, the same base fine set for fishing without a license, holding a regatta without a permit and several boating violations in the surrounding schedule. Article 6 also states that a separate offense is deemed committed on each day a violation continues, so repeated feeding at the same location can be cited more than once. Enforcement falls to Camden County Park Police and park personnel, who patrol under the Camden County Board of County Commissioners (the ordinance still refers to the former Board of Chosen Freeholders).

The rule applies countywide across every park and parcel of the Camden County Park System, not to feeding on private property or within individual municipalities, which set their own rules if any.