Monroe Township (Middlesex County), NJ Cannabis Regulations: Dispensary Zoning (2026)

Chapter 61 of the Monroe Township Code (Middlesex County) is a single-section chapter. The Township Council adopted it on 6-28-2021 as Ord. No. O-6-2021-015. Section 61-1 is headed Cannabis businesses prohibited and covers three groups: all classes of licensed cannabis establishments, cannabis distributors and cannabis delivery services, using the terms as defined in Section 3 of P.L. 2021, c. 16. Because the township borrows those definitions, the ban follows the license classes the state statute defines instead of a list written locally.

The prohibition applies within the geographical boundaries of the Township of Monroe. The section prints no district exception, no overlay zone and no distance rule, so the text offers no area of the township where a licensed cannabis establishment, distributor or delivery service is allowed to locate.

One carve-out is printed. The sentence excludes from the ban the delivery of cannabis items and related supplies by a delivery service. Read together, the text prohibits cannabis delivery services as businesses located within the boundaries while leaving the act of delivering items by a delivery service outside the prohibition.

The chapter history also records that the former Chapter 61, Licenses, adopted 2-20-1937 as Ord. No. 35, was repealed 12-3-2018 by Ord. No. O-11-2018-041. The cannabis chapter therefore occupies a number reused after that repeal.

This page covers Monroe Township in Middlesex County only. The Monroe Township in Gloucester County keeps a separate code, and Jamesburg is a separate borough.