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

12: all public parks and recreation facilities owned or leased by the City of Newark, and all property, including lead-safe houses, owned or leased by the City where the public is invited or permitted to gather for recreational activities, extending to adjacent parking areas, driveways or drive aisles marked with no-smoking signs. 7 separately bans smoking in all outdoor areas within 50 linear feet of any entrance or exit of an enclosed indoor area where smoking is already barred, specifically to keep smoke from drifting back inside through doors, windows or ventilation.

The ban covers more than tobacco: subsection a defines and reaches electronic smoking devices (e-cigarettes, e-cigars, e-pipes) and hookah/shisha water pipes as forms of smoking. Signage is mandatory under subsection d: non-smoking areas must be posted with 'Smoking Prohibited' signage using letters at least one inch tall or the internationally recognized no-smoking symbol. Enforcement runs through the local Board of Health as well as the City's Division of Police, Division of Fire, Department of Public Works, Division of Public Buildings and Department of Health and Community Wellness under subsection j, and a person who continues smoking after being ordered to stop is guilty of an ordinance violation.

Subsection i requires the Director of the Department of Health and Community Wellness to run a public education program on secondhand smoke, and bars enforcement fines from being levied until that program has run for two months.