Edison Township is a suburban municipality in central New Jersey and does not sit in a designated wildland fire zone, so it has no California-style defensible-space brush-clearance setback. Vegetation overgrowth is regulated as a property-maintenance and nuisance issue under the Edison Township Code (Chapter 10 - Police Regulations and Chapter 12 - Health). State-level wildland fire management is handled by the NJ Forest Fire Service.
Edison Township is in central New Jersey within Middlesex County, with mostly suburban and light-industrial development; the township is not located within the New Jersey Pine Barrens or any other state-designated wildland fire risk area. As a result, Edison does not impose California Public Resources Code Section 4291-style defensible-space brush-clearance distances. Tall grass, weeds and overgrown vegetation are handled instead as property-maintenance nuisances under the Edison Township Code (Chapter 10 Police Regulations and the township's property-maintenance provisions in the housing and health chapters). Owners must keep premises free of accumulations of weeds, brush, dead vegetation and combustible debris. The Edison Code Enforcement Office (732-248-7257) issues notices of violation, and the township's Health Department (732-248-7315) may also act on nuisance vegetation that harbors vermin. State-level wildland fire planning, prescribed burning and forest-fire response are run by the New Jersey Forest Fire Service (a division of NJDEP). Property owners abutting any of Edison's parkland or undeveloped county tracts (Middlesex County parks, the Dismal Swamp Conservation Area) should keep combustible vegetation cleared near structures as best practice.
Failure to maintain property free of overgrown vegetation, weeds, or combustible debris is a nuisance violation under the Edison Township Code, enforceable by the Code Enforcement Office through municipal court. Penalties follow Chapter 1 §1-5 of the Code (general penalty), with fines typically ranging from $25 to $1,250 per offense depending on severity and recurrence. The township may also abate (cut) the vegetation at the owner's expense and lien the cost against the property.
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