Parking Rules in New Jersey (2026)

Elizabeth outright bars parking any trailer, pole trailer, recreational vehicle, camper, or boat on any street or part…

Irvington bans parking a boat or a trailer used to tow one in any driveway or yard of residential property under §…

Jersey City prohibits parking any recreational vehicle on a street or public right-of-way outright, and separately bars…

Bergenfield lets residents keep a registered recreational vehicle, snowmobile, jet ski, quad or boat on residential…

Cherry Hill Township prohibits parking any camper or trailer, including camper trailers, landscaping equipment trailers…

Clifton bans boats and trailers from front yards outright and caps residential boat/trailer length at 18 feet…

Linden bans parking a truck tractor cab, trailer, pole trailer, recreational vehicle, camper or boat on any city street…

Passaic bans front-yard parking of boats, motor homes and trailers, caps their length at 22 feet, and requires a $5…

Paterson bars boats, boat trailers, campers, and travel trailers from sitting in residential yards or driveways unless…

Woodbridge bars boats and boat trailers from parking at any time, day or night, on Cliff Road, Ferry Street and part of…

Bergen County itself does not impose a general RV or boat parking rule on streets. Each of the 70 municipalities sets…

Brick Township bans recreational vehicles, trailers and boats from sitting on residential property unless the owner…

Edison Township bars RVs, boat trailers, house trailers and other large vehicles from parking on residential streets…

Freehold Borough zoning ordinance (Title 18) restricts storage of RVs, boats, and trailers in residential zones. Front…

Freehold Township bars front yards in residential zones from being used to store vehicles over 10,000 pounds or to park…

RVs, campers, boats and trailers may not park on designated Galloway streets during restricted hours. A trailer left on…

Hackensack allows one recreational vehicle, travel trailer, or boat per residential lot, but only in the rear yard at…

Hamilton Township caps how long a trailer, camper, or boat trailer can sit on a street or on private land at three…

Lakewood Township, Ocean County, does not ban parking or storing a recreational vehicle or boat on residential…

Long Branch's zoning code bans open storage of boats, vehicles or other equipment in any front yard, allowing only…

Village of Ridgewood zoning caps outdoor storage of boats, boat trailers and camping trailers on residential lots to…

Toms River Township allows homeowners to store one travel trailer, camper or up to two small boats outdoors, but not in…

Trenton limits recreational vehicles and trailers, including boat trailers, to five days in a residential front yard or…

Driveways onto a County road in Atlantic County must clear specific distance and angle rules: single-family driveways…

Bergenfield caps driveway width at 19 feet or 40% of lot frontage (never more than 25 feet), requires a two-foot side…

Brick Township caps residential driveway access width at 18 feet and requires every driveway to keep a dust-free…

Cherry Hill Township requires every driveway, sidewalk and parking space on a property to be kept in proper repair and…

Clifton bars parking, stopping or standing a motor vehicle on any front-yard area of a residential lot unless it is a…

Edison Township limits paved driveway and parking area to 20% of the required front yard in the R-AA Residential…

Elizabeth City Code Section 17.36.110(C)(3) lets driveways and accessory parking sit in any yard but keeps them at…

Freehold Township requires vehicles to be parked on paved surfaces, not on lawns or buffer strips, under Land Use Code…

Hackensack caps a paved front-yard driveway at 20 feet wide for one- and two-family homes in residential districts, and…

Hamilton bars parking motor vehicles anywhere in a front, side, or back yard except in a driveway or a designated…

Irvington Township Code § 380-27 bars parking any motor vehicle on lawns, across sidewalks, or in unpaved vacant lots…

Lakewood Township, Ocean County, New Jersey, bans parking a motor vehicle on any unpaved surface of residential…

Linden prohibits parking any vehicle on a residential lawn and bars keeping inoperable or unregistered vehicles on…

Long Branch caps how much of a front yard in any R Residential Zone can be used for parking or driveways at 20 percent…

Newark prohibits parking, storing or maintaining a motor vehicle on any front lawn, grass or dirt area in residential…

Passaic bans parking, stopping or standing a vehicle anywhere in a residential front yard except on a properly…

Village of Ridgewood Code § 190-121F(2)(a) lets single-family and two-family homeowners park anywhere in a required…

Toms River Township requires a paved or unpaved driveway for every single- and two-family home, sized between 10 and 26…

Trenton bars parking a car or truck on a front yard unless it's on a driveway or similar paved surface, with only a…

Jersey City bans parking trucks, buses, tractors and other commercial motor vehicles on any city street between 9:00…

Newark prohibits garaging, storing or parking any commercial vehicle on residential-zoned property at any time, and…

Bergenfield bans parking oversized commercial vehicles, those with more than one rear axle, over 22 feet long, wider…

Brick Township bans overnight street parking of heavy trucks and buses, bars storing them on residential lots, and caps…

Cherry Hill Township bans parking any truck, tractor, trailer, semi-trailer or omnibus with a registered gross weight…

Clifton's zoning code bars trucks, tractors, commercial trailers and buses from parking or standing in any yard area or…

Edison Township bars trucks over four tons GVW, buses, RVs, campers, boats, and trailers from parking on any…

Elizabeth prohibits property or vehicle owners from allowing off-street parking of any commercial motor vehicle…

Hackensack bars parking a commercial motor vehicle, as defined in the city's Zoning Ordinance, on any street within a…

Hamilton Township prohibits parking any truck, bus, tractor, trailer, or semitrailer on any street in town between 9:00…

Irvington bans parking a commercial vehicle, truck, trailer or bus overnight on any public street between 9 p.m. and 6…

A commercially-registered vehicle over 1.5 tons payload or with more than four wheels cannot park outdoors in a…

Linden bans overnight parking of truck tractor cabs, trailers, recreational vehicles, campers and boats on any city…

Long Branch bars commercial vehicles from residential zones between 9:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. and all day Sunday, with a…

Passaic bans overnight parking of trucks, buses, trailers and truck tractors on any street citywide between 10:00 p.m…

Trucks, buses and other commercial vehicles cannot enter Passaic County park property without written permission from…

Paterson bans overnight parking of any commercial vehicle over 4,000 pounds gross weight in R-1 and R-2 residential…

Village of Ridgewood zoning bars storing a commercial pickup, panel truck, mobile home, bus or van on a residential lot…

Toms River Township bars parking or storing commercial trucks, buses, tractors and pole trailers on residential land…

Trenton bars commercial vehicles from parking outdoors overnight on residential lots under § 315-10.10.A, except…

Woodbridge bars commercial trucks of 4 tons GVWR or more, and passenger vehicles of 8 tons or more, from parking on any…

Trucks, buses, and other commercial vehicles cannot enter Bergen County park property without written permission from…

Camden County does not restrict where oversized vehicles park at a residence; your municipality does. The one county…

Residential commercial-vehicle parking rules are municipal in Essex County. The county has a real, enforceable rule…

Galloway Township prohibits parking a truck or vehicle over four tons gross vehicle weight, plus school buses and other…

Mercer County bans parking outright on several named streets at Trenton-Mercer Airport, enforced under the county's own…

Bergenfield bans parking outright on a long list of named streets and limits parking to specific hours on others under…

Brick Township restricts overnight parking on designated streets by posted hours and reserves certain residential…

Rule 14 of the Burlington County Parks System Rules and Regulations requires every vehicle in a county park to park…

Camden County does not run on-street parking on residential streets; your municipality and its police set and enforce…

Clifton police can tow any vehicle parked illegally, obstructing a street or driveway, or lacking current registration…

Edison Township bars large vehicles, including motor homes and boat, camping and utility trailers, from residential…

Elizabeth's general parking rules in City Code Chapter 10.28 layer local no-parking, no-standing and no-stopping…

On-street parking in Essex County is regulated by each municipality and by NJ Title 39. The county's own parking…

Freehold Borough has metered on-street parking downtown with a 3-hour limit. Paid meters operate at $1/hour (11 AM-4…

Hackensack's general parking ordinance, § 170-6, bans parking in front of any public or private driveway, on sidewalks…

Hamilton Township bans parking outright on a long list of named streets under Code § 485-9, layers on posted time…

Irvington bars parking across a driveway, garage, sidewalk or lawn, and within set distances of fire hydrants…

Jersey City caps how long a vehicle may sit in specific on-street spots under City Code §332-24.1. Bergen Avenue near…

Lakewood Township enforces its own street-by-street no-stopping and time-limit schedules on top of New Jersey's…

Linden's automated Safety Stick technology enforces no-parking zones at fire hydrants, bus stops, crosswalks and…

Long Branch layers its own street-by-street parking schedules on top of New Jersey's statewide stopping and standing…

Newark's Revised General Ordinances list hundreds of specific streets and block segments where parking is banned…

Passaic issues driveway parking permits under City Code § 295-7.6 letting a private driveway owner, or household…

The Village of Ridgewood, Bergen County, New Jersey bars parking on any roadway or municipal lot outside a marked…

Somerset County Park Commission Regulations confine parking inside county parks to designated Parking Places only. A…

Toms River Township splits on-street parking prohibitions into separate schedules under Chapter 477's Prohibited…

Trenton enforces its on-street parking rules chapter-wide through § 14-2.11: any vehicle parked in violation of the…

On county-maintained roads, Union County bans parking outright on streets listed in Schedule I and restricts parking to…

Woodbridge caps on-street parking time on a published list of streets, from 30-minute school-zone limits to two-hour…

Elizabeth bars parking of commercial vehicles on city streets between 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., with truck tractors…

Hackensack does not ban overnight street parking citywide, but on the specific residential streets listed under §…

Irvington bans overnight parking of commercial vehicles, trucks, buses and RVs on any public street between 9:00 p.m…

Lakewood Township's Unified Development Ordinance bars larger commercially-registered vehicles and lawn-equipment…

Long Branch bars overnight on-street parking of heavy trucks, trailers, campers and any boat or boat trailer between…

In designated residential and commercial/residential zones, Passaic bars parking without a valid resident permit…

Toms River Township bans parking trucks, trailers, and road tractors on any street from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. townwide, plus…

Overnight street parking rules are set by each Bergen County municipality, not by the county. Many boroughs ban…

Bergenfield bars parking on any street between 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. under Borough Code § 299-10, with named-street…

Brick Township bars parking buses, trailers of any type, and trucks over five tons GVWR on any street or right-of-way…

Burlington County parks open around 7:00 AM and close about one-half hour after sunset, so no vehicle may remain parked…

On Camden County park land, no vehicle may be parked between 10 PM and 6 AM. On residential streets, overnight parking…

Cherry Hill Township does not impose one citywide overnight parking ban. Instead, Section 10-8.8 lists specific streets…

Clifton bars buses, tow trucks, trailers, flatbeds, and trucks over four tons or 25 feet from parking on any street…

Essex County has no countywide overnight residential parking ban; that is a municipal choice under NJ Title 39. The…

Freehold Township Code § 11-6 bars parking a truck, commercial vehicle, trailer, boat, recreational vehicle, pole…

Galloway Township has no blanket 2 a.m.-6 a.m. overnight street-parking ban. Instead, its Chapter 319 rules bar heavy…

Gloucester County bars leaving any motor vehicle in a park parking area or elsewhere after closing hours. Section 2(h)…

Jersey City restricts overnight parking street-by-street under City Code §332-24, not through one blanket citywide…

In Linden's North Wood Avenue and East Elizabeth Avenue areas, metered on-street spaces are off-limits overnight, from…

There is no countywide overnight-parking ban. Rules are municipal. Some Morris towns restrict overnight on-street…

No one may park a vehicle on any Village of Ridgewood street between 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. under § 265-21. Residents…

Trenton bars parking any motor vehicle on a city street for more than 21 straight days, regardless of whether another…

Union County bans overnight parking in named county parks and golf courses under Laws of Union County § 138-4 and its…

On a published list of Woodbridge streets, including Landing Lane, Leesville Avenue and Ralph Avenue, no vehicle of any…

Jersey City reserves specific on-street spaces exclusively for charging electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles under City…

Bergen County's designated electric-vehicle charging spaces in county parks are for active charging only. Article…

Brick Township charges $0.17 to $0.38 per kWh at its own public EV charging stations, plus a $10-per-hour occupancy fee…

Edison Township requires electric vehicle charging or 'make-ready' wiring in new and substantially modified…

Essex County reserves signed EV charging stalls for actively charging electric vehicles and fines gas cars or idle EVs…

Hackensack requires new multifamily and mixed-use developments of five or more dwelling units to pre-wire at least 15%…

Hamilton Township charges electric-vehicle drivers to use municipal EVSE charging stations under Code § 215-16: $1.50…

City Code § 325-24.3 reserves five on-street and municipal-lot spaces in Long Branch exclusively for electric or…

Using a Mercer County electric vehicle charging station costs $1 per hour for the first four hours under County Code §…

Newark's zoning code requires new multi-family buildings with five or more units, and new parking lots and garages, to…

Every new EVSE and make-ready parking space in Passaic must meet design, safety and signage standards set by Code of…

Passaic County requires electric vehicles parked in an authorized charging space at a county park to be actively…

Village of Ridgewood Code § 190-121.1 lets anyone install EV charging equipment as a permitted accessory use in every…

Trenton requires new multi-family buildings with five or more units, and most other new parking lots and garages, to…

Woodbridge Township designates public charging spaces at 364 Eleanor Place, 87 New Street, and 275 Lincoln Highway…

Installing an electric vehicle charger in Irvington is treated as electrical construction work: it needs a permit from…

Bergenfield treats EV charging stations and make-ready parking spaces as a permitted accessory use in every zoning…

Toms River Township's HB-MF Highway Business Multi-Family overlay zone lists electric vehicle charging and service…

New Jersey state law universally governs the removal, titling, and disposal of abandoned vehicles, with municipalities…

Clifton bans unregistered vehicles on any property, in every zoning district, under City Code Section 461-13.1B(10)…

Brick Township bans keeping inoperable vehicles on streets, vacant lots, or residential lawns unless stored inside a…

Cherry Hill Township bans keeping an unregistered, uninsured or uninspected motor vehicle on any premises, and bars any…

Edison Township treats any vehicle left on a highway, public property, or private property without consent for more…

Irvington Township Code Section 620-79 declares abandoned, inoperable and unregistered vehicles a public nuisance…

Jersey City Code § 332-72 bans abandoning a vehicle on a street or public property, parking without license plates, or…

Passaic prohibits keeping any abandoned, discarded, wrecked, junked or dismantled vehicle on private property under…

Trenton bans abandoning any vehicle in the city and lets a wrecked, junked or unlicensed vehicle sit on private…

A vehicle towed under Atlantic County's contract towing program and left unclaimed at a contractor's lot for 21…

Bergenfield outlaws abandoning any motor vehicle on a public street or private property, and treats an unregistered car…

Freehold Township bans leaving a partially dismantled, nonoperating, wrecked or junked vehicle on any street, and bars…

Hackensack treats a vehicle or chattel left on unoccupied private property for more than 24 hours as abandoned, and…

A vehicle parked seven straight days on a public street, disabled and blocking traffic, mechanically inoperative for…

Lakewood Township, Ocean County, New Jersey, bans abandoning vehicles anywhere in the Township and gives property…

A vehicle cannot be parked or left unattended on private property in Linden beyond the period the property owner…

Long Branch bars leaving any partially dismantled, wrecked, or junked vehicle on private property for more than 48…

New Jersey state law governs abandoned vehicles. A vehicle left in the same public location for at least three…

Newark bans keeping any wrecked, disassembled, or missing-parts vehicle, car, trailer, or semi-trailer, on a street…

Paterson police tow abandoned vehicles from streets and other public rights-of-way at no charge and store them up to 90…

Village of Ridgewood Code Sec. 223-64 bars parking an unregistered or uninspected motor vehicle ungaraged on…

Toms River Township bars storing an inoperative or unregistered motor vehicle anywhere in town unless it sits inside a…

Union County bars leaving an abandoned or junked motor vehicle on any county-owned, leased or controlled property. A…

When Woodbridge police tow an abandoned vehicle, § 4-7.24 gives the Police Department seven days to try to notify the…

Hackensack's Code bars anyone from painting, staining, coloring or marking the curb, sidewalk or pavement of a public…

In Elizabeth's public market district, Chapter 10.24 requires every parking prohibition at the Center Street, High…

Hamilton Township requires designated fire lanes to be marked with a yellow-painted curb and yellow diagonal striping…

Newark makes it unlawful to gouge, paint, stencil, color, mark or deface any public street pavement, sidewalk or curb…

Trenton's Director of Public Works may have lines or markings painted on the curb or street to show the boundaries of…

Atlantic County bars off-street truck loading and unloading spaces from sitting inside a County road right-of-way and…

Borough Code § 299-14 bars parking in designated loading zones from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and in drop-off zones at any…

Brick Township's zoning code requires commercial and industrial properties to provide their own truck loading and…

Loading zones on public streets are established and enforced by each Burlington County municipality, not the county…

Camden County parks close their land to random vehicle parking: Article 4, § 10(B) of the Park Regulations lets you…

Cherry Hill Township designates specific curb segments on Church Road, Third Avenue and Wynwood Avenue as loading zones…

Clifton designates specific curb segments citywide as loading zones and bars anyone from parking there during posted…

Edison Township designates specific curb locations as Loading Zones under Township Code § 7-37, reserved for loading or…

Elizabeth designates dozens of specific curb segments as loading zones by street ordinance, many restricted to set…

Freehold Township Code § 11-19 reserves designated loading zones for commercially registered vehicles actively loading…

Hackensack designates specific curbside locations as loading zones, restricted to active loading and unloading of…

Hamilton Township designates specific curb locations as loading zones under Code Section 485-39, reserving them for…

Lakewood Township, Ocean County, New Jersey designates specific curb locations as Loading Zones/Unloading Zones under…

Section 7-26 designates specific curb locations across Linden, such as Bacheller Avenue and East Linden Avenue, as…

Long Branch designates specific curb locations across the city as loading zones under § 325-3J, banning parking there…

Mercer County's only codified loading-zone rule is airport-specific: County Code § 6.03.050 designates a single loading…

A Newark business can get a dedicated curb loading zone from the Department of Engineering, but it costs money and…

Passaic's designated loading zones run only between 7:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, under Code of the…

Paterson requires any building used for trade or business to provide its own on-site loading space, with berths at…

Village of Ridgewood Code Sec. 265-26 caps how long a vehicle may sit in a designated loading zone in the Village of…

Toms River Township designates loading zones street by street under Chapter 477's Article X, and every location the…

Trenton limits off-street loading spaces to rear and interior side yards outside the I-L, I-G, and I-MU Districts under…

Woodbridge Township designates specific curb locations as loading zones where vehicles may stop only to load or unload…

Jersey City doesn't set loading-zone hours directly in its code, §332-28 delegates that to Municipal Engineer…

Union County designates specific loading zones on county property by name in Schedule XIV under Laws of Union County §…

Certain Hamilton Township residential streets are permit-only: Township Code § 485-16 bars anyone using public…

Long Branch designates certain streets 'Resident Permit Parking Only' under City Code § 325-24.1, and only vehicles…

Newark designates certain residential streets as permit-only under R.G.O. § 23:5-14, blocking non-resident parking on…

Trenton lets residents petition for a resident parking district when outside office, institutional or transportation…

Woodbridge requires a Township-issued permit to park on designated residential permit streets near downtown and the…

Brick Township restricts parking on designated residential streets to permit holders during posted hours, with permits…

Cherry Hill Township restricts parking on specific residential streets, such as Chapel Avenue and Cooper Run Drive, to…

Clifton lets the Chief of Police restrict parking on residential streets to permit holders once outside vehicles fill…

Edison Township requires a color-coded residential parking permit to park within six numbered zones, restricting curb…

Freehold Township runs a free residential parking permit program on select streets under Township Code § 11-4.8.1 and §…

Hackensack designates specific residential streets as residents-only parking areas under City Code § 170-71, barring…

On streets listed in Schedule VA, Irvington reserves parking for residents during posted hours, and every resident's…

Jersey City creates residential permit parking zones under Code § 332-64 when studies show a street is impacted by…

Linden designates specific residential streets as permit-only zones under City Code Section 7-15, letting decal holders…

Passaic designates specific residential and commercial/residential zones, including the Eastside, Main Avenue…

Freehold Township bans parking on any street once snow or ice has accumulated into a continuous cover on the pavement…

Once snow covers a street, parking is banned townwide on every street, full length, under Brick's snow emergency…

Whenever snow accumulation covers an Edison street, an automatic parking ban takes effect township-wide, no separate…

When snow covers the street, Elizabeth bars parking on dozens of named city and county roads until plowing is complete…

Essex County treats any vehicle left on a snow-covered county road as a nuisance subject to towing at the owner's…

Jersey City bans parking on more than 130 named streets whenever snow accumulation covers the roadway, under City Code…

When Newark's Business Administrator declares a snow emergency, parking is banned on posted snow emergency routes and…

Under Borough Code § 299-12, every street in Bergenfield becomes a snow emergency route once the Chief of Police…

Cherry Hill Township triggers an automatic parking ban the moment snow covers its streets. Section 10-8.3a bars parking…

Once snow covers Clifton's streets, parking is banned on the sides of dozens of named streets, from Ackerman Avenue to…

Once snow accumulation covers a Hackensack street, parking is banned on both sides of every street listed in Schedule…

Once snow covers Hamilton Township streets, an automatic parking emergency kicks in under Code § 485-8: no vehicle may…

Once snow covers an Irvington street enough to obstruct it, parking is banned on designated snow-emergency routes under…

Once snow covers Lakewood Township's streets, an automatic parking emergency takes effect on listed streets and stays…

A Linden winter storm warning triggers a parking ban within six hours on designated snow-emergency streets, staying in…

Once snow covers a Long Branch street, parking is automatically banned on the streets listed in Schedule I under Code §…

Once snow builds up enough on a street to require plowing, parking is banned on both sides of every street listed on…

Village of Ridgewood Code Sec. 265-43 lets the Village Manager declare "No Parking Areas" village-wide or street by…

Toms River Township bars parking on any street included in Chapter 477's Schedule XX whenever snow accumulation covers…

When snow covers a Trenton street or highway, parking is automatically barred on the major roadways listed in the…

Once snow covers Woodbridge streets, an automatic parking emergency exists and vehicles must stay off designated…

New Jersey's Predatory Towing Prevention Act, N.J.S.A. 56:13-7 et seq., and its implementing rule, N.J.A.C. 13:45A-31…

Brick Township fixes what a police-called tower may bill a vehicle owner, from $150 for a Class I tow and $450 per hour…

Edison Township sets its own binding price list for vehicles towed at the direction of a township employee. A standard…

Paterson prices every police rotation tow in a city fee schedule rather than leaving it to the operator. A light-duty…