Freehold Township, NJ Special Events & Permits: Park Event Permits (2026)

Chapter 332, Article II, Regulations for Use of Certain Parks, applies to a defined schedule of Township-owned pocket parks including Sandybrook Park, Orchard Hills Park, Stonehurst Park, Woodcrest Park and Greentree Park, among others listed by block and lot. Section 332-8 requires any group of 20 or more people, whether participating or merely watching, to obtain a permit from the Director of the Recreation Department before using a pocket park. Section 332-9 requires the application to be made on Recreation Department forms, and the applicant must sign onto the Code of Conduct and affirmatively agree to distribute copies of it to every group member.

Failure to distribute the Code of Conduct is itself a violation of the article. The ordinance builds in a presumption that anyone present at the park during a permitted activity, whether a participant or a spectator, is a member of the permitted group and is deemed to have been advised of the Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct itself is adopted by resolution of the Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners and must be posted in at least one prominent spot at each pocket park, though a missing posting is not a defense to a charged violation under § 332-7.

A separate Article III, added in 2015, bars other uses of Township parks and public property such as hunting without written Township Administrator permission, littering, graffiti, and paid instruction like tennis lessons for remuneration, with narrow carve-outs for referees and registered charitable fundraisers.