Old Bridge, NJ Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)

Chapter 463, Vehicles, Abandoned, opens with a flat rule in § 463-2: no one may abandon a vehicle on any street, highway or property in the Township, and no one may leave a vehicle anywhere under circumstances that make it reasonably appear abandoned. Section 463-3 separately bars leaving any partially dismantled, nonoperating, wrecked or junked vehicle on a street or highway except as § 463-4 allows. That section sets the operative time limit for private property: no owner, tenant, occupant or lessee may allow a partially dismantled, nonoperating, wrecked, junked, unlicensed or discarded vehicle to remain on the property, or exposed to public view, for more than 48 hours.

Three exceptions apply: a vehicle inside an enclosed building, a vehicle on a lawfully operated business's premises when necessary to that business, and a vehicle in an appropriate Township-maintained storage depository. Enforcement runs through the Old Bridge Police Department under § 463-5: the Chief of Police or a designated officer can remove any vehicle that appears to violate the chapter, impound it until it is lawfully claimed or disposed of under applicable state statutes, and must notify the registered and legal owner in writing, by personal service or certified mail, of the removal, the reason and the vehicle's location.

The vehicle stays impounded until the owner or an authorized agent pays the towing and removal cost plus a garage charge of $20 for each day the vehicle remains impounded. Because Chapter 463 does not print its own separate fine schedule, a violation of the abandonment or 48-hour rule falls under the Township's general Code penalty in § 1-3.