Newark, NJ Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)

" The ordinance covers public streets and vacant lots as well as private residential lawns, so the ban reaches a car parked on someone's own grass just as much as one abandoned at the curb. The only place the section allows such a vehicle to sit is a fully enclosed structure, meaning a garage or similarly walled building; a carport, tarp, or driveway does not satisfy that exception. Chapter 15:10 sits within Title 15's sanitation and public works provisions, which is why enforcement runs through the Department of Public Works and, for vehicles obstructing streets or posing a hazard, the Division of Police, rather than through the zoning code.

The Title does not carry a separate numeric fine schedule for Section 15:10-1 in the text of the chapter itself; enforcement proceeds as a general Title 15 ordinance violation subject to the City's standard municipal court process.