New Brunswick, NJ Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

In the City of New Brunswick, New Jersey, on-street parking is controlled by Chapter 10.16, Stopping, Standing or Parking, which works through attached schedules. Section 10.16.030 is the hours-based rule: no person shall park a vehicle between the hours specified in Schedule 25, Schedule 26 and Schedule 27 of any day, except Sundays and public holidays, on the streets or parts of streets described in those schedules. Subsection B adds that the prohibition is inapplicable to streets designated by a resolution, adopted annually by the city council, authorizing the suspension of alternate side parking regulations on certain religious holidays specified in that resolution.

Other sections in the chapter set the rest of the street rules. Section 10.16.020 prohibits parking at any time on streets listed in Schedule 24. Section 10.16.040 prohibits stopping or standing during hours in Schedule 28. Section 10.16.050 limits parking to the time shown in Schedule 29 and requires payment of the rate established there. Section 10.16.090 bars parking on the roadways in Schedule 32 whenever snow covers the street, until the streets have been plowed sufficiently. Under Section 10.16.100, the chief of police, or the ranking officer in his or her absence, can declare an emergency and have temporary emergency no parking signs posted.

Section 10.16.130 prohibits parking on any public street between eleven p.m. and six a.m. of a truck over 5,500 pounds gross weight, or a trailer, boat or camper. Section 10.16.010 states the chapter does not relieve anyone of the more restrictive rules in R.S. 39:4-138 or any other New Jersey statute.

Enforcement is shared. Section 10.16.080 gives the police department, the Rutgers campus patrol and parking enforcement officers concurrent authority. Section 10.16.110 treats an unoccupied vehicle parked in violation as a nuisance that a peace officer can have removed, and the owner pays removal and storage costs before regaining the vehicle. Section 10.16.170 designates tow-away zones, including meters where a vehicle is parked beyond one hour of the permitted time after a summons issued at least one hour earlier. Section 10.16.120 makes the chapter's effectiveness contingent on signs being erected as required by law.