Edison, NJ Public Conduct: Public Urination (2026)

Section 10-9.9a bars urinating, defecating, or committing 'any kindred nuisance' in any public street, highway, or public or quasi-public place not set aside for that purpose. Subsection b then defines the term broadly for purposes of the section: 'other public place' is 'deemed to include the quasi-public area in front of or adjacent to any store, shop, restaurant, luncheonette or other places of business, and shall include also any parking lots or other vacant private property not owned or under the dominion of the person charged with a violation of this section.' That last clause matters: the ban reaches vacant private land too, so long as the person cited does not own or control it, closing off a defense that the spot where the violation occurred was technically private property rather than a public street.

Section 10-9.9 sits in the same Property Offenses article as the illegal-dumping ban in § 10-9.3 and the obstruction-of-streets ban in § 10-9.6, all of which the article groups under a single enforcement and penalty clause at § 10-9.11 rather than giving each its own fine. The section's 'kindred nuisance' language is undefined beyond the urination and defecation examples given, leaving the Municipal Court to apply it to comparable conduct on a case-by-case basis.