Passaic, NJ Short-Term Rentals: Noise Rules (2026)

Rather than writing a stand-alone short-term rental noise curfew, Passaic incorporates its existing noise and nuisance ordinances by reference. Section 100-15G states occupants shall comply with all City ordinances including, but not limited to those regulating noise and nuisance conduct, and the zoning conditional-use standard at § 317-16H(8) doubles that requirement, obligating short-term rental units to stay in compliance with all City of Passaic and State regulations relating to short-term housing and residential occupancies including but not limited to maximum occupancy and noise standards, fire prevention and property maintenance codes.

That means a noise complaint at a Passaic short-term rental is enforced through Chapter 193, Noise, the general ordinance governing sound in the city, rather than through a rental-specific decibel table. Because the short-term rental owner and responsible party remain answerable for occupant conduct under § 100-15, a sustained or substantiated noise or nuisance complaint doesn't just risk a Chapter 193 summons: it can also feed directly into the Short-Term Rental Registration Certificate's own enforcement mechanism, since § 100-15L lets the Director of Inspections and Code suspend, revoke, or deny the certificate where the owner has been convicted of disturbing the peace or maintaining a nuisance, or is the subject of a substantiated complaint.