Old Bridge, NJ Public Health Rules: Bed-Bug Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Covered establishments
- Licensed hotels, motels, rooming houses, boardinghouses
- Bedbug standard
- Kept free and clean of bedbugs and vermin
- Cure period before revocation hearing
- 10 days after written notice
- Revocation hearing notice
- At least 5 days
- License fee
- $5 per bed
Summary
Old Bridge Township's licensing code for hotels, motels, rooming houses, and boardinghouses requires every licensed establishment to stay free of bedbugs and other vermin; an inspection that finds an uncorrected infestation can trigger a license revocation hearing after just 10 days' notice.
E. Fees shall be as follows: ... For one to three beds: $5. (2) For four or more beds: $5 for each bed. ... G. Each building or room licensed as a hotel, motel, rooming house, rooming unit or boardinghouse may be inspected at any hour deemed necessary and as often as the Construction Official may deem it necessary. If any inspection discloses a condition existing in the building tending to create a violation of the sanitary code and such condition is not corrected within 10 days after notice in writing to the owner or operator of the business, the Construction Official, upon notice to the licensee, may order him to show cause before him, on notice of not less than five days, why the license shall not be revoked. ... R. Every hotel, motel, rooming house, rooming unit and boardinghouse shall be kept free and clean of and shall not harbor nor have on their premises rats, mice, fleas, bedbugs, cockroaches, ants, silverfish or other insects or vermin.
Full Breakdown
Section 235-14 licenses every hotel, motel, rooming house, rooming unit, and boardinghouse operating in Old Bridge Township, and Subsection R requires each of them to be kept free and clean of and not harbor rats, mice, fleas, bedbugs, cockroaches, ants, silverfish, or other insects or vermin. A license costs $5 for one to three beds and $5 per bed for four or more beds, renews annually by December 1, and runs the calendar year. Subsection G lets the Construction Official inspect a licensed building at any hour, as often as needed.
If an inspection turns up a sanitary code violation, such as a bedbug infestation, and the owner or operator does not correct it within 10 days of written notice, the Construction Official can order the licensee to show cause, on at least five days' notice, why the license should not be revoked. In a genuine emergency the Construction Official may instead issue an immediate verbal order that carries the same force as a written one. Chapter 235's general housing standards apply on top of this: Section 235-4 lets the Construction Official issue a written violation notice with up to 60 days to abate, and refer an uncured violation to Old Bridge Township Municipal Court. Chapter 235 does not extend a bedbug-specific duty to ordinary apartments outside the licensed hotel, motel, rooming house, and boardinghouse category.
Violations & Fines
An establishment that does not clear a cited bedbug or vermin infestation within 10 days of written notice can be summoned to a license-revocation hearing on five days' notice under Section 235-14G, in addition to Municipal Court prosecution for the underlying sanitary code violation.
Frequently Asked Questions
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