Bloomfield, NJ Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Section 254-20(B) of the Bloomfield Township Code, adopted by the Township Council, bars commercial vehicles from every street in the township overnight. The ban runs from 12:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. prevailing time and covers trucks, including vans and pickup trucks, truck tractors, trailers, semi-trailers, commuter vans, Type I and Type II school buses, omnibus vehicles including taxis, and motorized mobile homes, defined as a vehicle equipped with sleeping, kitchen, or bathroom facilities. The vehicle must be used for commercial purposes as defined by New Jersey Motor Vehicle and Traffic Regulations 39:1-1.

The weight exemption is narrow. A vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of less than 5,000 pounds is outside the ban. Omnibus vehicles, including taxis, are prohibited regardless of weight. Taxis still get a grace period: they are allowed to park for two hours between 12:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m., after which they are prohibited from parking on any street in Bloomfield Township.

Buses have their own daytime limit. Buses, school buses and omnibuses, regardless of weight, are allowed to park on any street in the township for no longer than two hours from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Monday through Sunday. The section carries amendment history dated 3-4-2013 (Ord. No. 13-11), 10-5-2015 (Ord. No. 15-56), 10-17-2016 (Ord. No. 16-36) and 9-25-2017 (Ord. No. 17-42).

Subsection A of the same section is a separate rule: it bars parking during the hours listed in Schedule XVI (§ 254-56) on the streets named in that schedule. The overnight commercial ban in Subsection B applies by its own terms to any street in the Township of Bloomfield, so it needs no street list.