New Brunswick, NJ Mobility & Curb Rules: Shared E-Scooter Rules (2026)

Section 10.41.070(A) of the New Brunswick Municipal Code says any shared electric scooter company can operate in the city if it meets a list of criteria. The company agrees with the city on how many scooters it operates at a time, and the New Brunswick City Council sets or raises that number by resolution not more than once per calendar month. Every shared scooter needs a minimum of two wheels. A company new to the city agrees to a pilot program of not more than ninety (90) days with no more than two-hundred (200) initial scooters. The company pays the city fifty dollars ($50.00) per scooter, provides three safety helmets per scooter placed into operation, and pays fifteen cents ($0.15) per scooter trip. The city caps the aggregate for all companies at no more than six hundred (600) electric scooters.

Operating limits follow. Companies use reasonable technology, such as geofencing, to keep scooters within the permitted-area map at § 10.41.070(A)(16), and they place five percent of their fleet, rounded up and no fewer than five, in each neighborhood of need every morning per the map at (A)(17). Those two maps are images that the code export does not print as text. Required insurance is commercial general liability of one million dollars each occurrence and two million aggregate, automobile coverage of one million and one million, and umbrella coverage of five million. Scooters carry an identification plate. The company disables and stores all scooters on days of inclement weather and for forty-eight (48) hours following a snowfall of greater than five inches, and scooters left out are subject to Chapter 12.20.

Rider rules sit in § 10.41.040: no one under seventeen operates a scooter, no riding on a sidewalk, and the person who made the rental reservation is the rider. Scooters cannot leave less than four feet for pedestrians. Section 10.41.050 sets a one hundred dollar default fine and two hundred fifty dollars for a first sidewalk ride.