Vineland, NJ Public Conduct: Loitering Rules (2026)

Chapter 507, Article II of the Vineland City Code sets separate conduct rules for public parks and recreation areas beyond the physical-damage prohibitions found elsewhere in the section. Subsection B(4) specifically bars occupying any seat or bench, or entering into or loitering or remaining in any pavilion or other park structure or section of one that the Recreation Commission has reserved and designated for use by the opposite sex, with a single carve-out for children under six years of age. The same subsection reaches broader loitering behavior in Subsection B(10), which bars sleeping or protractedly lounging on park seats, benches or other areas, and separately bars loud, boisterous, threatening, abusive, insulting or indecent language, or any disorderly conduct or behavior tending to breach the public peace.

Read together, the two provisions give Vineland's Recreation Commission and park attendants, plus the Vineland Police Department, authority to move along anyone lingering in a reserved facility or behaving disorderly on park property, rather than requiring a separate underlying criminal charge before an officer can act. Section 507-10 authorizes the Recreation Commission and any park attendant to eject a violator from the park directly and to seize property used in the violation, in addition to Police Department enforcement. A conviction is punishable under Section 507-13's cross-reference to Chapter 1, Article II, General Penalty, of the Code of the City of Vineland, the same penalty scale that applies to every other prohibited act in the parks article.