Linden, NJ Public Conduct: Outdoor Smoking Restrictions (2026)

A. ), which already bars smoking in most enclosed indoor workplaces statewide. 1(k), part of the City's parks and recreational-facility conduct rules, prohibits smoking "in all public parks, playgrounds, or other recreational facilities of the City of Linden," and extends the ban to "all other facilities of the City of Linden where smoking is prohibited" under the state Smoke-Free Air Act, tying the local rule directly to the state statute rather than restating its terms. m. A second, geographically narrower ban was added in 2024 by Ord.

No. 68-44 as § 27-9, inside Chapter 27's Special Improvement District provisions. It prohibits smoking on the sidewalks in and around businesses within the District, running along North Wood Avenue between St. Georges Avenue and Munsell Avenue, and extending with a 150-foot setback onto East and West Blancke Street, East and West Price Street, and East and West Elizabeth Avenue; the precise boundary is mapped in an Exhibit A kept on file at City offices rather than printed in the code text itself. Both bans reach only outdoor public space: the code does not extend either provision to private patios or other outdoor seating areas outside the mapped district.