Piscataway, NJ Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

Chapter 7, "Traffic," opens its parking article at § 7-8.1, "Regulations Not Exclusive," confirming that the chapter's time-limit provisions don't excuse drivers from separately observing "other more restrictive provisions prohibiting or limiting the stopping or standing or parking of vehicles" required elsewhere. Added by Ord. No. 2019-29 on November 26, 2019, § 7-8.2, "Parking of Inoperable or Unregistered Vehicles Prohibited," then states the whole operative rule in one sentence: "Any motor vehicle that is located on the exterior portion of a person's property must be both registered and operable." The text draws no distinction between a vehicle sitting in a driveway, a yard, or at the curb along the street frontage, so any unregistered or non-running car left outside is covered.

Because § 7-8.2 sets no penalty of its own, enforcement relies on the Chapter 7 default penalty at § 7-4 (carried from 1972 Code § 11-12, amended by Ord. No. 10-34 and Ord. No. 13-28): "every person convicted of a violation of a provision of this chapter or any supplement thereto shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $100 nor more than $200 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 days, or both, together with court costs." The rule sits alongside the Township's lawn-parking permit requirement (§ 7-8.3) and electric-vehicle charging rules (§ 7-8.4) within the same § 7-8 subsection group governing how vehicles may be kept outdoors on residential lots townwide.