New Brunswick, NJ Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Section 10.16.130 is a citywide night-time rule for heavy and towed vehicles. It reads that no truck having a gross weight over five thousand five hundred (5,500) pounds, trailer, boat or camper is parked between the hours of eleven p.m. and six a.m. following on any public street in the city. Unlike most of Chapter 10.16 it points to no schedule of streets: the words any public street in the city put every public street inside the ban for that window.

The section names four vehicle types. A truck is caught only when its gross weight is over 5,500 pounds, while a trailer, a boat or a camper is caught without any weight test. It does not mention passenger cars, so overnight limits on cars come from other provisions, such as the street schedules in §§ 10.16.020 through 10.16.050 and the permit-only districts in Chapter 10.28, which run twenty-four hours a day Monday through Friday on the streets listed in Schedule 41.

Related rules sit next to it. Section 10.16.140 adds a separate truck ban on the streets listed in Schedule 33. Section 10.16.120 states that the effectiveness of the chapter is contingent on signs being erected as required by law. Section 10.16.010 adds that the chapter's time limits do not relieve any person of the duty to observe R.S. 39:4-138 or any other New Jersey statute. Off the street, § 10.32.030(D) bars any truck, tractor or trailer from parking in or using a public parking lot owned, operated or maintained by the parking authority. Under § 10.16.080 the police department and police officers, the Rutgers campus patrol and parking enforcement officers all have the concurrent right to enforce prohibited parking.