Hackensack, NJ Parking Rules: Curb Color Rules (2026)

Section 148-19, in Chapter 148's Article II (General Regulations and Restrictions), splits the ban into two subsections. Subsection A is the broad rule: no person may paint, gouge, mark or deface any street or public place in the City. Subsection B narrows in on the pavement, sidewalk and curb specifically, prohibiting anyone from painting, stenciling, coloring, marking or defacing them, with one carve-out: the Superintendent of Public Works may approve painting a curb and sidewalk at a driveway. That means a resident who wants a driveway curb marked, for example to flag a curb cut, needs the Superintendent's sign-off rather than doing it unilaterally, and there is no separate process in this section for private reserved-parking curb markings, house-number curb painting or do-it-yourself no-parking stripes; anything outside the approved driveway exception is a flat prohibition.

The section sits alongside other street-integrity rules in the same article, including bans on obstructing gutters, damaging official traffic signs, and interfering with street-cleaning crews, all enforced by the same City departments. Chapter 148 does not set a standalone fine for Section 148-19, so a violation falls under the Code's general penalty provision, Section 1-15: a fine of up to $2,000, up to 90 days' imprisonment, or up to 90 days of community service, with continuing violations chargeable day by day.