Jackson, NJ Landscaping Rules: Weed Ordinances (2026)

Section 115-2, part of Chapter 115, Brush, Weeds, Trash and Debris, sets a sight-line rule rather than a general lawn-height limit: where necessary for public safety, an owner or tenant of land in Jackson Township must keep all trees, brush, hedges and other plant life growing within 10 feet of any roadway, and within 25 feet of the intersection of any two roadways, cut to a height of no more than two and a half feet above the ground. The rule sits alongside the broader Section 115-1 ban on brush, weeds and debris covering any land in the Township, so a property owner faces both a general accumulation prohibition and this specific roadway-sightline height cap.

Enforcement runs through Section 115-3: the Superintendent of Public Works serves written notice, and the owner or tenant has 10 days to cut the vegetation to compliance before being charged with a violation. If the condition is not corrected in that window, Section 115-4 lets the Superintendent of Public Works have the vegetation cut or removed directly, certify the cost to the Township Committee, and place the charge as a lien on the property, collected the same way as the property's real estate taxes and bearing the same interest rate.