Irvington, NJ Parking Rules: Snow Removal Parking Rules (2026)

Township Code Section 620-34, in Chapter 620's Article VIII, Emergency No Parking, triggers the moment snow accumulation covers a street or highway: no vehicle may be parked on either side of any street or part of a street listed in Schedule XIX (Section 620-113), the Township's designated snow-emergency route list. The prohibition does not lift when the snow stops falling. Subsection B keeps it in effect until the streets have been plowed sufficiently and to the extent that parking will not interfere with the normal flow of traffic, so drivers on a Schedule XIX street have to watch actual plowing progress, not the weather forecast, to know when parking is legal again.

Separately, Section 620-35 lets the Director of Public Safety, or the ranking police officer in his absence, declare an emergency for any street and order temporary emergency no-parking signs posted, a broader tool the Township also uses for accidents, fires and public celebrations, not only snow. Notice must be given to the operator or owner of any vehicle parked before the signs went up. A companion emergency street-closing power at Section 620-43 lets the Mayor, or the Municipal Council by resolution, suspend enforcement of parking ordinances entirely on designated streets during a declared snowplowing, snow removal or other emergency, and lets the Essex County Sheriff's Office of Emergency Management trigger county-road no-parking on named corridors such as Chancellor Avenue, Springfield Avenue and Stuyvesant Avenue.

Section 620-36 treats any unoccupied vehicle parked in violation of the article as a nuisance and a menace to safe traffic regulation, and authorizes any peace officer to have it removed, with the owner responsible for reasonable removal and storage costs before regaining the vehicle. Section 620-37 conditions the whole article's effectiveness on the required signs actually being erected.