Howell, NJ Public Conduct: Public Marijuana Use (2026)

The definition does the work. Under § 302-2, SMOKE or SMOKING means inhaling, exhaling, burning, or carrying any lighted or heated cigar, cigarette, or pipe, or any other lighted or heated tobacco, nicotine, or plant product intended for inhalation, including hookah, marijuana, or cannabis, whether natural or synthetic. Use of an electronic smoking device counts as smoking too. Because the Township Council folded marijuana into that definition in Ordinance No. 23-8, adopted 4-4-2023, every smoking prohibition in the chapter applies to a joint the same way it applies to a cigarette.

The prohibitions are in § 302-4. Subsection A covers all municipally owned property and all municipal buildings and Township facilities, both indoors and outdoors, and names Town Hall, Police Headquarters, the Community/Senior Center, Community Resource and Services and the Department of Public Works. Subsection B adds public parks and recreation facilities, athletic fields, playgrounds and pool facilities, including adjacent parking areas, driveways, drive aisles and walkways. Subsection C extends the ban to public schools and their recreation facilities, and subsection D bans smoking in any vehicle registered, owned and operated by the Township.

Signs are mandatory. "No smoking" signs or the international no-smoking symbol must be posted at the entrance to each facility, must be clearly visible to the public, must state that violators are subject to a fine, and must be written in English and Spanish. The chapter's text is limited to the places § 302-4 names. It prints no rule for a public street, a sidewalk or a private yard, so this page covers only the Township property, facility and school settings in that section.