East Brunswick, NJ Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

Section 166-15, Outside Storage, Residential Properties, was added on February 22, 1999 by Ord. No. 99-10 as part of Chapter 166, the Property Maintenance Code. Its subsection G contains the vehicle parking rule. The first rule is about surface: any motor vehicle must be parked on a parking area, such as a driveway, or in a garage or carport. Vehicles are not to be parked on the grass or in any area intended for landscaping, so a lawn, a planting bed or a landscaped strip is off limits.

Recreational vehicles are the exception. A boat, trailer, RV or camper can be stored in either the side yard or the rear yard of a residential area. It must be located behind the front of the residence and, in the case of a corner lot, in the yard adjacent to a street.

Inoperable and unlicensed vehicles are handed to Chapter 206, Vehicles, Abandoned. Section 206-6 restricts parking of inoperable vehicles and vehicles that are not legally licensed on private property to a limit of thirty (30) days. Examples printed there include a flat tire, missing wheels, a vehicle left on jacks for long periods during repair, and engine problems that prevent driving, and a vehicle that is not street legal, not registered or without current license tags is considered inoperable. Section 206-4 is stricter for partially dismantled, nonoperating, wrecked, junked or discarded vehicles, which cannot remain on property longer than 48 hours, with exceptions for a vehicle in an enclosed building, on the premises of a lawful business when necessary to its operation, or in a Township storage place.

Section 206-5 authorizes the Director of Public Safety, or a designated member of the Division of Police, to remove and impound a vehicle that reasonably appears to violate the chapter, with written notice to the owner by personal service or certified mail. The owner pays the cost of removal plus a storage charge of $35 for each day the vehicle is impounded.

Property maintenance enforcement belongs to the Zoning and Code Enforcement Officer within the Department of Planning & Engineering under § 166-3.1(A).