10 county-level rules, plus city-specific rules for 1 city in Passaic County, New Jersey.
Verified from official government sources
Passaic County does not regulate where you park an RV, boat, or trailer at a home. That is municipal home-rule zoning. Most Passaic County towns bar recreational vehicles and boats from front yards and driveways, allowing them only in a side or rear yard.
Wayne Township Code (Supplementary Zoning Regulations, Recreational Vehicles)
No residential driveway area within the front yard shall be utilized for the storage of boats, commercial or recreational trailers licensed or unlicensed by the NJMVC or other state agency, mobile homes and other similar recreational vehicles.
How you use your residential driveway is set by your municipality. But if your driveway connects to a Passaic County road, you need a County road-access permit from the County Engineering Department before building or altering the driveway apron.
Passaic County does not regulate residential commercial-vehicle parking. Each municipality does. Many Passaic County towns, including Paterson, bar overnight street parking of commercial vehicles in residential zones, and towns like Wayne restrict commercial trailers in yards.
Passaic County does not set on-street parking rules for local streets. Under New Jersey's traffic law, each municipality regulates parking, standing, and stopping on its own streets. County-road parking is limited and handled by the County only through its road and access permit process.
Passaic County has no countywide overnight-parking ban. Whether you can park on the street overnight depends entirely on your municipality. Several Passaic County towns, including Paterson, prohibit overnight on-street parking of commercial vehicles in residential areas.
Passaic County has no EV-charging parking ordinance. New Jersey's statewide EV law requires new or reconstructed multifamily developments of five or more units to make 15% of off-street parking EV make-ready, and it standardizes how towns must permit chargers.
N.J.S.A. 40:55D-66.20 (per AFDC summary)
New or reconstructed MFH developments with five or more units must designate 15% of required off-street parking as EV make-ready parking spaces.
Abandoned vehicles are governed by New Jersey state law, not a Passaic County ordinance. Under N.J.S.A. 39:4-56.5, a vehicle left on a highway, public property, or private property without consent for more than 48 hours, or with no current plates, is presumed abandoned.
Passaic County does not set curb-painting or curb-color parking rules. Curb markings (such as no-parking or fire-zone colors) and any restriction on painting the curb are set and enforced by your municipality. Curb work on a county road needs a County permit.
Passaic County does not create curbside loading zones. Municipalities designate and enforce loading zones on their streets under New Jersey traffic law. On a county road, changes to the curb or a new loading area require a County road permit.
Passaic County has no ordinance on parking oversized vehicles at homes or on streets. Municipalities regulate this through their zoning and parking codes, often barring large RVs, box trucks, and trailers from front yards and overnight street parking.
1 cities in Passaic County have their own parking rules rules. Each link goes to that city's dedicated page with code citations.
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