Public Health Rules in New Jersey (2026)

Every retail food establishment in Bergenfield must post its latest Health Department evaluation placard right at the…

Clifton's Health Department requires every retail food-handling establishment to post its current inspection evaluation…

Hamilton Township requires every retail food establishment to hold a Township license and post its most recent state…

Hoboken does not use a letter-grade placard system. Instead, City Code Section 115-10.4 requires every inspected food…

Every retail and wholesale food establishment in Passaic must post its latest Division of Health inspection evaluation…

City Code § 563-3 requires every restaurant, bakery, mobile food unit, retail food market and vending machine operator…

In Monroe Township, Gloucester County, every rental facility has to be free from rodents, vermin and insects under §…

Chapter 227 requires every building and premises in Passaic to be ratproofed and kept free of rats and vermin, with…

Atlantic County requires every hotel, boardinghouse and rooming house to stay free of rodents, vermin and insects, and…

Bayonne's Commercial Property Maintenance Code makes the owner of any premises responsible for exterminating rats…

Bergenfield's Sanitary Code declares it a public health nuisance to accumulate anything that feeds or shelters rodents…

In Bloomfield Township, New Jersey, depositing or keeping anything that feeds rodents or gives them a breeding place or…

Brick Township declares woodpiles that harbor, are infested, or are inhabited by rats or other vermin public nuisances…

Cherry Hill Township requires every structure and exterior property to stay free of rat infestation, with prompt…

Clifton makes it unlawful to let garbage, refuse, manure or animal or vegetable matter pile up if it can feed rodents…

In East Brunswick Township, New Jersey, the presence of rodents, insects and other pests is prohibited outright. Every…

In the City of East Orange, it is unlawful to feed, harbor or shelter mice, rats or other rodents on any property, and…

Edison Township declares it a nuisance to let rodent food or harborage accumulate on any property, and the Division of…

Elizabeth's Vermin Control chapter makes it unlawful for an owner or occupant to let any premises become rat- or…

Hackensack bars property owners and occupants from letting their premises become vermin- or rat-infested, or from…

Hamilton Township's housing code makes every occupant, owner or operator of a dwelling responsible for exterminating…

In the City of Hoboken, Code § 136-2A(9) makes it a prohibited nuisance to leave any dwelling, rooming house or place…

In Howell Township, New Jersey, all structures and exterior property must be kept free from rodent harborage and…

Chapter 449's Rodent Control article makes it unlawful for any owner or occupant to let a building become…

Section 139-13 of the Jackson Township Code requires every commercial building to stay free of rodents, vermin and…

Jersey City makes rodent or vermin infestation on any property a declared public-health nuisance. Code § 182-30 bars…

Lakewood Township's Board of Health Code makes every dwelling owner responsible for keeping the building 'reasonably…

Linden's Housing Code bars exterior property areas from becoming rodent or insect breeding grounds and puts…

Long Branch's property maintenance code requires every building to stay weathertight, watertight and verminproof under…

In Monroe Township, Middlesex County, the owner of any property, structure, premises or business establishment is…

In the City of New Brunswick, New Jersey, the amended property maintenance code requires vacant buildings to be rodent…

Newark Code § 16:20-2 makes it unlawful for an owner or occupant to let any premises in the city become vermin- or…

Old Bridge Township's housing code requires every dwelling to be built and maintained rodentproof: foundations…

Paterson makes property owners responsible for exterminating insects, rodents and other pests in exterior areas…

In the City of Perth Amboy, every building, public or private, vacant or occupied, must be ratproofed, freed of rats…

Piscataway's Property Maintenance Code requires every structure and yard to stay free of rat infestation, promptly…

In the City of Plainfield, New Jersey, rat infestation, mouse infestation and severe roach infestation are each listed…

Village of Ridgewood Code § 223-92 requires every structure in the Village to be kept free of insect and rat…

Toms River Township requires mobile home park operators to apply insect and rodent control measures recommended by the…

Trenton requires every basement or cellar opening to be screened against rodents, and puts extermination on the owner…

City Code § 537-2 amends the International Property Maintenance Code, 2024 Edition, adopted for the City of Vineland…

In Wayne Township, New Jersey, Wayne Township Code § 113-8 G(2) makes each operator of a commercial or industrial…

Woodbridge Township requires every property owner or operator to keep the exterior of their premises free of animal…

Parsippany-Troy Hills addresses rodents through § 213-32 of the Property Maintenance Code: all parts of the premises…

Clifton declares bed bugs a public nuisance in multiple dwellings. Once a tenant or the Health Department gives written…

Hamilton's housing code requires every licensed hotel, motel, rooming house, and boardinghouse to stay free of bedbugs…

Jersey City's property maintenance code makes the owner of any building with two or more dwelling units responsible for…

Newark requires anyone disposing of a mattress from a privately owned building to wrap it in plastic first, a citywide…

Old Bridge Township's licensing code for hotels, motels, rooming houses, and boardinghouses requires every licensed…

Passaic declares bedbugs a public nuisance and puts the extermination duty on the property owner. Under Code of the…

Hamilton Township bans surgical dressings, syringes and other disposable hospital-type 'red bag waste' from curbside…

In the City of Vineland, a harm reduction center or sterile syringe program is allowed only as a Planning Board…

Bergenfield's Sanitary Code treats needles differently from other medical waste: domestic hypodermic syringes and…

Cherry Hill Township requires used injection needles broken from the syringe and hub, separated, and placed in marked…

Jersey City requires every generator of medical waste, including sharps, to manage disposal "in accordance with all…

Linden bans discarding a used hypodermic needle or syringe in the trash, or anywhere else accessible to another person…

Woodbridge's Solid Waste Code classifies discarded syringes as a hazardous material under § 27-2.4, alongside paints…

Newark's Department of Health and Community Wellness is authorized, not required, to run a sterile syringe access…

In Bloomfield Township, Essex County, New Jersey, no one can work in manufacturing, handling or serving food or…

In the Town of West New York, Hudson County, New Jersey, no one may work in preparing, cooking, packaging or wrapping…

In the City of Bayonne, every Risk Type 3 retail food establishment (full-service restaurants, diners, commissaries…

Bergenfield's Sanitary Code requires at least one certified food protection manager in every Risk Type 2 or Risk Type 3…

Cherry Hill Township Code § 9-1.2b requires every retail food establishment to have at least one staff member complete…

Every Clifton retail food establishment must employ at least one full-time certified food manager, obtained through the…

In East Brunswick Township, anyone who prepares or handles potentially hazardous food, cleans utensils and equipment…

Edison Township requires every food handler and food-service supervisor to complete a Division of Health-approved food…

Freehold Township requires every retail food establishment to hold a food handler's license from the Board of Health…

Hoboken's Health Officer can require any food handler preparing food for human consumption to carry an annual…

Every owner, manager, supervisor and food-handling employee at an Irvington retail food establishment must hold a food…

Every retail food establishment licensed in Jersey City must keep at least one certified manager or supervisor on…

Long Branch requires every retail food establishment operator, or a manager from each shift, to complete a food…

In Monroe Township, Middlesex County, no retail food establishment, fixed, temporary or mobile, can serve potentially…

In the City of New Brunswick, New Jersey, no retail food establishment, fixed, temporary or mobile, may serve…

Anyone who works handling foodstuffs intended for human consumption in Newark, or who employs someone who does, must…

Passaic's Division of Health runs its own food-handling training course, and the Health Officer can order any food…

Anyone who prepares or handles food for sale in Paterson must hold a City Health Division food handler's certificate…

In the City of Perth Amboy, every food handler and every person supervising a food or beverage establishment must…

Village of Ridgewood Code § 156-57 requires every person who prepares, sells or processes exposed food in the Village…

Toms River won't issue a peddler or vending license to sell food until the Board of Health first issues a food…

In Wayne Township, New Jersey, every retail food service establishment must employ at least one full-time Person in…

Woodbridge requires food handlers to complete an annual Food Safety and Sanitation education program. Code § 35-2.5…

Hackensack does not run a citywide food handler certification program for every restaurant, but it does require mobile…