East Brunswick, NJ Homelessness & Encampment Rules: Encampment Sanitation (2026)

Section 158-6(F) governs camping and is one of the activities listed under the lead-in: No person shall engage in any of the following activities in a park. The first sentence confines camping to designated camp sites for organized camping, provided by the Director of Parks and used by groups of persons under adequate supervision. The second sentence names the conduct directly: no person shall set up tents, shacks or any other temporary shelter for the purpose of overnight camping. The last clause reaches vehicles and trailers: no person shall leave in a park after closing hours any movable structure or special vehicle that is used or could be used for such purpose, such as a house trailer, camp trailer or camp wagon, without permit.

The rule is a park rule. Section 158-2 defines a park as any park, play area, natural area, reservation, field, beach, recreation center or other area the Township owns, or uses, and devotes to active or passive recreation or natural resource management. Section 158-6(F) does not use the word homeless; it regulates the structure and the overnight purpose.

Sanitation provisions sit in the same chapter. Section 158-4(B) bars leaving bottles, boxes, cans, rubbish, waste, garbage, refuse or other trash, and requires trash to go in the proper receptacles or be carried away by the person responsible for it. Section 158-13.2, added 5-30-2024 by Ord. No. 24-10, makes it unlawful to urinate or defecate on public land or in a public place, and the § 158-12A schedule sets urination at $150 for a first offense and $300 for a second, and defecation at $250 and $500.

Park staff hold the removal tools. Under § 158-11 the Director of Parks, Park Rangers and designated Department of Parks employees can eject any person acting in violation, seize and confiscate any property, thing or device in the park or used in violation, and issue summonses before the Municipal Court. Chapter 158 prints no separate notice period or storage procedure for seized belongings.