Trenton, NJ

Trenton bars operating power lawn mowers, leaf blowers, vacuums, golf course maintenance equipment and chain saws between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. citywide, treating the restricted use…

Trenton's only measured decibel standard applies to junkyards and recycling centers under Code § 137-10. Sound at a residential or institutional property line cannot exceed 55 dBA from…

Trenton bars dog owners from letting their dog annoy neighbors by barking or howling, trespass on others' property, or damage shrubbery, flowers or gardens, under § 21-7. Police…

Trenton Code § 167-2 declares it a nuisance to play a radio, phonograph or musical instrument louder than needed for convenient hearing in a way that disturbs neighbors, and separately…

Trenton bans exhausts, horns and mufflers that emit loud or unnecessary noise from any vehicle on city streets. The Noise chapter treats unmuffled exhausts and unreasonably loud or…

Trenton's Director of Public Works may have lines or markings painted on the curb or street to show the boundaries of metered parking spaces, and once installed, drivers must park…

Trenton enforces its on-street parking rules chapter-wide through § 14-2.11: any vehicle parked in violation of the posted no-parking, no-stopping or time-limited zones set out in…

Trenton lets residents petition for a resident parking district when outside office, institutional or transportation traffic overwhelms on-street spaces, under § 14-2.15. A district…

Trenton bans abandoning any vehicle in the city and lets a wrecked, junked or unlicensed vehicle sit on private property for no more than 15 days before the Police Director can impound…

Trenton bars parking any motor vehicle on a city street for more than 21 straight days, regardless of whether another ordinance or permit otherwise allows the parking, with no…

Trenton limits off-street loading spaces to rear and interior side yards outside the I-L, I-G, and I-MU Districts under City Code § 315-10.9, requiring each berth to be at least 10…

Trenton bars parking a car or truck on a front yard unless it's on a driveway or similar paved surface, with only a temporary snow-emergency exception, and every 24-hour period the…

Trenton limits recreational vehicles and trailers, including boat trailers, to five days in a residential front yard or driveway under § 315-10.10.B, requiring longer-term storage in…

Trenton bars commercial vehicles from parking outdoors overnight on residential lots under § 315-10.10.A, except standard-size vehicles like vans, SUVs, and pickups. Semi-tractors, box…

When snow covers a Trenton street or highway, parking is automatically barred on the major roadways listed in the city's Schedule X snow-emergency route map, and the ban stays in force…

Trenton requires new multi-family buildings with five or more units, and most other new parking lots and garages, to install electric-vehicle charging infrastructure under City Code §…

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, control every non-consensual tow in the state. A private property…

Trenton makes the property owner where a hedge originates responsible for trimming growth that crosses the boundary line, and splits tree-branch removal costs between neighbors when…

Trenton caps residential fences at 6 feet in rear and interior side yards under City Code § 315-9.4.H(2), but most residential districts allow only a 4-foot open fence in the front or…

Trenton requires a construction permit to build a fence, charged at $45 per $1,000 of the fence's estimated cost, and every application must come with a plot plan and survey showing…

Trenton bans barbed wire, chicken wire, razor wire, spiked posts, and scrap, corrugated or sheet metal from any fence or wall construction under City Code § 315-9.4.H(1)(b). The ban…

Trenton requires every short-term rental, defined as a unit rented under 30 consecutive days, to register annually with the Department of Inspections for a $300 fee plus $150 renewal…

Trenton collects a 1% municipal occupancy tax on every short-term rental stay, on top of a $300 registration fee and a $150 annual renewal fee owners pay to the Department of…

Guests staying at a Trenton short-term rental must follow every city parking ordinance that applies to the property, from traffic-code parking regulations to the front-yard-parking…

Every Trenton short-term rental registration must include a copy of a current property liability insurance policy covering the unit, filed with the Department of Inspections alongside…

Trenton subjects every short-term rental to its citywide noise ordinance, banning unnecessary or physically annoying sounds, from raised voices to prolonged or unusual noise, that…

Trenton makes a residential unit ineligible for short-term rental use once it racks up three violations, whether findings under the short-term rental chapter itself or three violations…

Trenton can require booking platforms like Airbnb to actively police listings, delisting units that exceed day limits, lack a valid registration number, or are ruled ineligible. A…

Trenton requires smoke detectors on every level of R-3 and R-4 dwellings and outside each separate sleeping area, in effect since June 1, 1980. Owners must install and maintain the…

Trenton bans open burning of refuse and salvage operations anywhere within city limits, along with using open fires to heat tar or asphalt kettles. Chapter 6, Air Pollution, gives the…

Trenton allows only state-permitted novelty fireworks under N.J.S.A. 21:3-2 and bans discharge on streets, sidewalks, parks or any public property. Consumer fireworks on private…

Building, lighting or maintaining a fire in a Mercer County park is barred except in a camp stove or a fireplace the Park Commission has provided or designated. Oil or gas camp stoves…

The New Jersey Forest Fire Service has statewide jurisdiction over wildland fire prevention, declares burn bans, and enforces forest fire districts that supersede conflicting municipal…

Trenton requires every dog on a public street or in a public place to either wear a securely fastened muzzle covering the whole mouth, or be on a leash no longer than three feet and…

Trenton's code does not ban any dog breed outright. Instead, § 21-9 sets fees that apply once the Municipal Court, under state law N.J.S.A. 4:19-26, has already declared a specific dog…

Trenton imposes no fixed numeric cap on the dogs or cats a household can keep. City Code § 21-29 instead bars keeping animals in numbers, sizes, or types that create a public nuisance…

Trenton prohibits feeding any wildlife in public parks or on other City-owned property. Adopted to protect public health and the environment, City Code § 21-34 makes it unlawful to…

Trenton requires every dog or cat over six months old to be spayed or neutered before it can be owned, possessed, or kept in the City. City Code § 21-47 makes unaltered pet ownership…

Trenton does not license cats the way state law requires for dogs, but it regulates them through adoption fees, feral-colony registration, and a citywide spay/neuter mandate. An…

Trenton permits residential beekeeping under City Code § 315-9.4.D, but hives are allowed only in interior side or rear yards, set back at least 10 feet from every lot line, and must…

Trenton requires anyone operating a kennel, pet shop, shelter or pound to obtain an annual license from the City Clerk with the Health Officer's written approval, under § 21-14. The…

Trenton zones veterinary offices as an "Animal Care Facility" use under § 315-2.3, covering treatment and convalescent boarding of animals. Section 315-8.4.B requires exterior exercise…

Trenton's zoning ordinance flatly prohibits keeping livestock, chickens, or other poultry on any community garden site in the city, private or public, though beekeeping is expressly…

Trenton bars killing, capturing, disturbing or frightening any wild bird within City park areas, and no one but the City itself may take such action, making park land an effective…

Trenton does not set a specific inch or foot height limit on lawn grass, but Chapter 38 declares the growth of noxious plants a public nuisance on any lot, public or private. Owners…

When limbs or branches hang over a Trenton street or sidewalk and interfere with free passage, the Department of Recreation, Natural Resources and Culture can order the owner to trim…

Removing a Trenton street tree of 2.5 inches DBH or a non-street tree of 6 inches DBH requires a City permit and replacement planting, with fees running $25 to $100 per tree or a…

New Jersey's statewide stormwater rule, N.J.A.C. 7:8, requires major developments to manage runoff with green infrastructure and expressly counts storing stormwater runoff for reuse…

The NJ Department of Environmental Protection may impose statewide or regional water use restrictions during drought warnings or emergencies under the Water Supply Management Act.

Every private residential swimming pool in Trenton, in-ground or aboveground, must be fenced to a height of four to six feet, and pools may only sit in the rear yard. In-ground pools…

A shed in Trenton is a detached accessory structure, capped at 20 feet in height, and must be set back at least three feet from any lot line (one foot if enclosed and abutting an…

Trenton bars finishing the space above a detached garage's parking area into livable space with a kitchen or full bathroom unless it is approved as an accessory dwelling unit. City…

Trenton requires that whenever a property has an accessory dwelling unit, the owner must live in one of the two units on-site. City Code § 315-9.4.B(2) states that 'one of the dwelling…

Trenton allows one accessory dwelling unit per single-family lot under City Code § 315-9.4.B, capped at 800 square feet and 40% of the primary dwelling's floor area. The lot must be at…

Trenton zones an in-home child care business as a "Day Care Home" under § 315-2.3, capped at care from outside households for under 24 hours a day. Section 315-8.4.F ties capacity to…

A Trenton home occupation may display just one sign: a non-illuminated wall sign no larger than 1.5 square feet, affixed to the structure. Anything brighter, bigger, freestanding, or…

Trenton lets residents run a home occupation as an accessory use in any dwelling, but the business must stay clearly secondary to residential living and cannot alter the home's…

Office or service-related home occupations in Trenton may host only one client at a time, and the code defines "client" narrowly as up to four people meeting with the business…

New Jersey allows for-profit home food production only through a Cottage Food Operator Permit issued by the Department of Health's Public Health and Food Protection Program under…

New Jersey has no microenterprise home kitchen permit and no way to license a home kitchen as a restaurant. N.J.A.C. 8:24-2.1(c)1 makes the person in charge responsible for ensuring…

Trenton's Noise chapter bars warming up or idling buses, trucks and tractors, and unnecessary repeated idling, acceleration or deceleration of cars and motorcycles, in close proximity…

Trenton requires a development permit from the Construction Official before any construction, land alteration or manufactured home placement in an area of special flood hazard mapped…

Trenton ties erosion control for major and minor development to the state Soil Erosion and Sediment Control Act (N.J.S.A. 4:24-39 et seq.) and N.J.A.C. 2:90, folding those minimum…

Trenton requires major and minor developments to control stormwater with green infrastructure, cap runoff, and recharge groundwater under Chapter 254. Owners of stormwater BMPs must…

New and substantially improved residential structures in Trenton's A or AE flood zones must have their lowest floor, including basement, elevated to the base flood elevation plus three…

The Coastal Area Facility Review Act gives the New Jersey DEP exclusive permit jurisdiction over development in the coastal zone, applying uniform statewide standards regardless of…

Trenton's Housing Inspector can enter and survey dwellings between 9:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. for periodic inspections, with emergency entry allowed any time. Owners and occupants must…

Trenton requires carbon monoxide alarms in every dwelling unit in buildings in Use Groups I-1, R-1, R-2, R-3 and R-4, unless the unit has no fuel-burning device or attached garage…

Trenton requires periodic lead-based paint inspections for single-family, two-family and multiple rental dwellings under Code § 132-131, performed by the Municipal Inspector or a…

Trenton requires a permit from the code official before anyone constructs, alters, or demolishes a structure, adds an addition, changes occupancy, installs regulated equipment, or…

Trenton's housing code requires owners of multi-dwelling buildings to keep every elevator serving occupied units on the third floor or higher in working order. An owner cannot let an…

Trenton enforces the New Jersey Uniform Construction Code through its Division of Technical Services, whose Plumbing Subcode Official issues permits before any plumbing fixture…

Trenton bans draw bolts, slide bolts, barrel bolts, surface bolts, flush bolts, hooks, hasps, padlocks and key-operated deadbolts on the egress side of any exit door. A narrow…

Trenton requires a construction permit before any electrical wiring for light, power, or communication is installed, altered, or extended in a building, administered by the Electrical…

Trenton doesn't set its own child-care capacity or space rules: zoning code § 315-8.4.F simply requires every day care center or day care home to meet whatever indoor/outdoor space and…

Trenton inspects every registered non-occupant-owned rental structure once every five years, plus every vacant unit before a new tenant moves in. A $50 fee applies only if a landlord…

Any five Trenton residents can file a written petition with the Housing Inspector alleging a dwelling violates the Housing Code, forcing an inspection. This citizen-complaint path runs…

Trenton requires all public and private housing buildings to run 24/7 video surveillance covering entrances and exits, and buildings with parking for 25 or more vehicles must…

Trenton closes all city parks and recreation areas to the public from sunset until 7:00 a.m. daily, barring any use including sports or group gatherings unless the Director of the…

Trenton bars anyone under 18 from being in a public place after 11:59 p.m. in summer and after 9:59 p.m. the rest of the year, both ending at 6 a.m., unless a parent or guardian is…

Trenton pawnbrokers need an annual license from the City Clerk, capped at three citywide, costing $500 per year, and new or relocated shops must sit at least 2,500 feet from any other…

Trenton requires a $750 annual license from the Department of Health and Human Services before any retail electronic smoking device establishment can sell vape or nicotine products…

Trenton zones tattoo and body-piercing shops as a defined "Body Modification Establishment" use under § 315-2.3. The City's fee schedule does not list a dedicated license category for…

Trenton's zoning code flatly bans auto repair as a home occupation. Under § 315-9.4L(13), 'repair and service of any vehicles, any type of heavy machinery, or any type of engine is…

Every massage salon operating in Trenton must hold an annual business license under Code § 146-20, which sets the fee at $250. No massage business may open without first applying to…

Trenton requires a $1,000 annual license for adult entertainment businesses under § 146-20, on top of strict zoning spacing rules: no adult use may sit within 1,000 feet of another…

Trenton runs a rotating list of licensed tow vendors under Police Department contract, charging a $500 annual application fee and requiring 20-minute response times, round-the-clock…

Trenton bans urinating, defecating, or depositing bodily waste anywhere in public view, or anywhere the public has access, requiring use of a proper lavatory or toilet instead. The…

Trenton bans begging or soliciting in an aggressive manner anywhere in public, and separately bars any solicitation within 10 feet of a bank, check-cashing business, or ATM during…

Trenton bans consuming or possessing an open container of alcohol on any public or quasi-public property, including streets, sidewalks, parks, and parking facilities, and bars drinking…

Trenton does not ban loitering generally; Chapter 154 targets two specific purposes. Article I bars wandering or prowling in a public place with intent to commit a prostitution…

Trenton bans smoking in every City-owned or leased park, playground, ball field, and recreation facility, including adjacent parking lots and driveways, plus any vehicle registered to…

Mercer County parks bar coasting with hand sleds, bobs, skis, carts or any other wheeled or runner vehicle, the category the Park Commission uses to cover skateboards, everywhere…

Trenton bars sleeping, lodging, or taking up residence on any street, sidewalk, park, public building floor, or the common areas of a private building. Before anyone can be found in…

Trenton requires every peddler, solicitor, or door-to-door canvasser to get an individual license or permit from the City Clerk before working the city, with a $50 fee, a police…

Sidewalk food vendors in Trenton need a City registration certificate plus a state peddler license, must display a Health and Human Services certificate of health compliance on the…

Trenton limits nonmotorized street and sidewalk vending to six named locations assigned by lottery, and a registered vendor cannot occupy a location assigned to another vendor even if…

Trenton requires mobile food trucks to hold a Retail Food Establishment Health License, priced at $200 a year, plus a City-issued vehicle inspection certificate kept on board at all…

Trenton caps annual rent increases at 4% for regular tenants and 2% for senior citizen or disabled tenants at lease expiration, with a Rent Stabilization Board overseeing exceptions…

Landlords seeking a rent increase above the yearly cap for a capital improvement must notify Trenton tenants at least 60 days before the increase takes effect, stating the dollar…

Trenton requires every nonoccupant owner of a rented structure to register annually with the Department of Inspections by March 1, paying $110 per structure plus $35 per dwelling unit…

Trenton's Rent Control chapter bars landlords from evicting, refusing to renew, or otherwise retaliating against a tenant for petitioning the Rent Stabilization Board or exercising any…

Trenton's Housing Code bars anyone from occupying or renting out a dwelling that fails its minimum standards for heat, hot water, plumbing, and pest control. The Chief Housing…

Under New Jersey's Anti-Eviction Act, N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1, a landlord may evict a covered tenant only on a statutory good-cause ground. Non-payment under subsection a. needs no advance…

New Jersey sets no general statutory cap on residential late fees, leaving the amount to the lease subject to reasonableness. For senior citizens on government pensions and recipients…

To end a month-to-month residential tenancy in New Jersey, either party gives at least one month's written notice expiring at a rental period. Because the Anti-Eviction Act bars…

New Jersey caps a residential security deposit at 1.5 times one month's rent, and any later additional deposit may rise by no more than 10% per year. After a tenancy ends, the landlord…

A squatter cannot gain title quickly in New Jersey. Under N.J.S.A. 2A:14-30, thirty years of actual, continuous possession of real estate vests title in the possessor, and sixty years…

Trenton bars anyone from blocking pedestrian passage on sidewalks or vehicle passage on streets and alleys with plowed snow, wares, merchandise or other articles. Limited carve-outs…

Trenton places the duty to build, maintain and repair abutting sidewalks, curbs and gutters directly on the owner of the bordering real estate. If an owner ignores a City repair…

Trenton lets porches, stoops, and steps project onto the public sidewalk only within strict limits, and bars any such encroachment outright in the Downtown Business A Zone unless City…

Trenton caps yard sales at four per household per calendar year and garage sales at six, requires City Clerk registration before any sale, and confines garage sales to the back yard…

Trenton charges a construction permit fee for every solar installation, from $125 for a 1-10 kW rooftop system up to added charges per inverter, and its zoning code caps how high and…

N.J.S.A. 45:22A-48.2 forbids a New Jersey community association from adopting or enforcing any restriction, covenant, bylaw, rule or regulation that prohibits solar collectors on two…

Trenton property owners must keep their own water service pipes and fixtures in good repair at their own expense. Once the Division of Water and Sewer is notified of, or discovers, a…

Anyone can file a complaint against a Trenton short-term rental by submitting the unit's address, unit number, the date and nature of the alleged violation, and the complainant's own…

Trenton's City designee has 30 days after receiving a short-term rental complaint to investigate and decide whether a violation occurred, then 7 more days after any hearing to issue a…

Trenton requires a Department of Public Works permit before any dumpster is placed on a public street, sidewalk or alley. The $20 permit is capped at 30 days, and the applicant must…

Trenton requires garbage set out for City pickup to sit in an approved container, a galvanized or plastic can with a tight lid holding 10 to 32 gallons and weighing no more than 50…

Trenton collects garbage and trash on a schedule the Department of Public Works announces, and containers can't go to the curb before 7:00 p.m. the night before pickup, except on…

Large bulky items like refrigerators, stoves, beds and crates don't go in a regular Trenton trash can: residents must report them to the Division of Sanitation for a special pickup…

Every Trenton resident, including those in multifamily complexes, must recycle 14 categories of materials, from paper, glass, aluminum and plastic containers to tires, vehicle…

Trenton bans sweeping, raking or blowing yard waste into the street except for a scheduled collection. Loose leaves and grass clippings must stay 10 feet from storm drains and go out…

Trenton Code § 150-9C keeps trash, refuse and garbage receptacles at least six feet from any property line next to a residential lot and screened from ground-level view, and § 248-8D…

Trenton Code § 150-13B fines illegal dumping, defined at § 150-2 as unauthorized depositing of litter, commercial, construction or industrial waste in a public place or on private…

Trenton runs its recycling program under the New Jersey Statewide Mandatory Source Separation and Recycling Act and has formally adopted the Mercer County Recycling Program as its…

Filming with special sets, casts or professional models anywhere in Trenton requires a Mayor-issued permit under Code § 146-38; amateur photography and bona fide news crews are exempt…

Trenton gives owners, occupants and tenants of abutting property just 12 daylight hours after snow or ice falls to clear the sidewalk, or to spread sand or ashes if the ice can't…

Trenton Code § 150-6 bars anyone from dumping litter on an open or vacant lot, public or private, and separately makes the owner of every vacant parcel responsible for clearing grass…

Trenton's Director of Inspections can declare any building unfit for human habitation under Code § 132-95 whenever structural defect, deterioration, filth or infestation makes it…

Trenton's sidewalk cafe ordinance bans outdoor heaters outright: no permitted cafe may operate or use a heater within its footprint for any reason. The same section bars outside…

Trenton requires a Police Director-issued permit for any parade of 25 or more people, with applications filed with the Department of Recreation, Natural Resources and Culture at least…

Trenton bars any speech, performance, parade, or public meeting inside a city park without written permission from the Department of Recreation, Natural Resources and Culture. A…

Trenton requires a sidewalk cafe permit before any restaurant may set tables and chairs on the public sidewalk. The City Clerk issues the permit only after sign-off from the Health…

Trenton requires City Clerk approval before any locally sponsored fair, festival or bazaar can operate under Code § 146-36, limited to educational, charitable, religious or…

Trenton designates historic districts and individual landmarks by ordinance under Chapter 315, Article 15. Once listed, an exterior change to a designated site or district building…

Trenton caps residential building height at 40 feet across every low, medium, and most high-density zoning district. The RH-2 district is the sole exception, allowing multi-family…

Trenton's Land Use Ordinance caps how much of a residential lot can be covered by buildings and pavement. Table 4-1 sets maximum building coverage at 40% in the RL-1 district, 35% in…

Trenton's Land Use Ordinance sets minimum front, side, and rear yard setbacks by zoning district in Table 4-1. Low-density RL districts require 25- to 30-foot front setbacks and…

Trenton limits outdoor lighting to one footcandle at any lot line and requires every luminaire to use full cutoff or semi-cutoff optics under City Code § 315-9.3. Freestanding fixtures…

Trenton caps outdoor lighting at one footcandle measured at any lot line and requires every outdoor luminaire to be full-cutoff or semi-cutoff and shielded so no glare reaches adjacent…

Trenton caps sign and billboard illumination at one foot-candle measured at the lot line under § 315-12.4, and limits electronic message sign brightness to 5,000 nits by day and 500…

Trenton limits window signs on nonresidential buildings to no more than 30% of each window's surface area, whether the sign is temporary or permanent. An illuminated window sign is…

A Trenton billboard larger than 300 square feet must sit in an I-L or I-G industrial district and be oriented to show only toward a limited-access highway, following NJ DOT outdoor…

Trenton allows a temporary garage or yard sale sign only for a seller who holds a valid City sale permit. The sign can be freestanding, wall-mounted, or attached to a fence, capped at…

Trenton exempts temporary holiday and seasonal lighting displays from its exterior lighting standards entirely. Under City Code § 315-9.3.C(6), homeowners and businesses can run…

Trenton bars campaign and special-event material from every public place or facility, from utility poles to public buildings, but allows it on private property with the owner's…

Trenton's Zoning Code blocks digital billboards outright: electronic message signs are barred from operating as commercial off-premise signs, and a billboard is defined as an…

Trenton bans operating a motorized vehicle on any section of a city bikeway, keeping bikeways clear for cyclists, with the Department required to post notice of the prohibition and…

New Jersey has a full low-speed vehicle regime and no golf cart regime at all. An LSV must be titled, registered, insured and plated with the Motor Vehicle Commission, and it may be…

Trenton's zoning ordinance requires developers to plant shade trees in the curb lawn and on-site under § 315-11.9, spacing one shade tree per 40 linear feet of lot frontage in every…

Trenton requires a Tree Permit before removing any street tree with a trunk 2.5 inches or more in diameter, or any other tree six inches or more in diameter, under City Code § 287-3…

Trenton imposes a 7% surcharge on every fee collected for parking, garaging or storing motor vehicles at public and commercial parking facilities, on top of the separate per-space…

Trenton requires every basement or cellar opening to be screened against rodents, and puts extermination on the owner whenever infestation spreads across two or more units of a…

Trenton imposes a 3% hotel and motel room occupancy tax on rent charged for occupying a hotel or motel room in the City, on top of the state sales tax and any other tax or fee. The…

Trenton caps where cannabis dispensaries can locate under Code § 146-46: no dispensary within 1,000 feet of another (500 feet in the Roebling and Downtown Business A districts), 750…

New Jersey state law prohibits home cultivation of cannabis statewide, even for adults 21 and over and registered medical patients, and municipalities cannot legalize personal grows.

Mercer County has no standalone right-to-farm ordinance of its own; instead the County Agricultural Development Board, created under County Code § 3.05.010, is charged with mediating…

Flying a drone or any radio controlled aircraft in Mercer County parks requires written permission from the Park Commission first. The Rules and Regulations place the ban inside the…

Commercial drone operations in New Jersey are governed by federal FAA Part 107 plus the uniform state criminal restrictions in N.J.S.A. 2C:40-27, leaving little room for conflicting…

New Jersey state law (N.J.S.A. 2C:40-27) sets uniform criminal restrictions on drone operations statewide, including bans on flying impaired, near critical infrastructure, or near…

New Jersey sets a uniform statewide minimum wage under NJSA 34:11-56a, scheduled to reach $15 per hour, with limited authority for municipalities to enact higher local wage floors.

The New Jersey Earned Sick Leave Law at NJSA 34:11D provides up to 40 hours of paid sick time and preempts local sick leave ordinances, creating a single statewide standard.

New Jersey issues concealed carry permits under NJSA 2C:58-4 with strict justifiable need replaced by shall-issue standards post-Bruen, while sensitive-place restrictions limit where…

New Jersey effectively prohibits open carry of handguns without a Permit to Carry under NJSA 2C:39-5, and long-gun open carry is restricted in most public contexts.

New Jersey strictly regulates firearm transport in vehicles under NJSA 2C:39-5 and 2C:39-6, requiring unloaded firearms in locked containers absent a valid Permit to Carry, with…

New Jersey splits the state into two frost zones: 2 feet 6 inches in Monmouth and Burlington counties and everything south, and 3 feet in Mercer and Middlesex counties and everything…

New Jersey's Casino Control Act, N.J.S.A. 5:12-1 et seq., confines legal casino gambling to a single city. State law defines an "approved hotel" eligible for a casino license as a…

New Jersey lets churches, veterans posts, fire companies, and other nonprofits run bingo or raffles only after two steps: registration with the state's Legalized Games of Chance…

New Jersey's Code of Criminal Justice defines a 'player' as a person who gambles only as a contestant or bettor and collects nothing beyond personal winnings, without otherwise…

New Jersey legalized sports betting in June 2018 under the Sports Wagering Act, N.J.S.A. 5:12A-10 et seq. Only Atlantic City casinos and Meadowlands/Monmouth Park-class racetracks…

New Jersey gives both condominium and planned-community associations a foreclosable assessment lien with a limited 6-month priority over a prior first mortgage. The Condominium Act…

N.J.S.A. 45:22A-46(a) requires association bylaws to open every executive board meeting to members and voting-eligible tenants, except conference or working sessions where no binding…

New Jersey associations enforce recorded covenants and architectural standards through their declaration, but PREDFDA's Radburn regulations require associations to make alternative…

N.J.S.A. 45:22A-48.4 bars a New Jersey community association from prohibiting or unreasonably restricting the installation or use of an electric vehicle charging station in a…

N.J.S.A. 45:22A-48.1 makes any association rule or bylaw that limits or prohibits display of the flag of the United States, yellow ribbons, or signs supporting United States troops…

N.J.S.A. 46:8B-15(f) lets a New Jersey condominium association impose reasonable fines only if the master deed or bylaws authorize it, and then caps each fine at the maximum monetary…

A New Jersey condominium or homeowners association can record a lien on a unit for unpaid assessments and foreclose it by suit in the same manner as a mortgage foreclosure. The lien…

New Jersey runs sobriety checkpoints, and the Legislature has never passed a statute authorizing or regulating them. The phrase "sobriety checkpoint" returns no documents at all in the…

New Jersey is a one-party consent state, so recording an encounter you are part of is lawful under N.J.S.A. 2A:156A-4(d), and there is no New Jersey statute that bans filming police…

New Jersey has no stop-and-identify statute. A full-text search of the New Jersey General and Permanent Statutes returns no provision requiring a pedestrian who is stopped on suspicion…

New Jersey put its vehicle-search rule inside the legalization act itself. N.J.S.A. 2C:35-10c, enacted as section 61 of CREAMMA, provides that the odor of cannabis or burnt cannabis…

Under NJSA 13:1E-99.126, New Jersey banned single-use plastic carryout bags and single-use paper bags at large grocery stores effective May 2022, the strongest such law nationally.

New Jersey prohibits polystyrene foam food service products under NJSA 13:1E-99.126, banning foam clamshells, cups, trays, and similar items statewide effective May 2022.

Under NJSA 13:1E-99.126, New Jersey food service businesses may provide single-use plastic straws only upon customer request, effective November 2021 statewide.

Under N.J.S.A. 2A:170-51.4, New Jersey prohibits the sale, gift, or distribution of tobacco and electronic smoking products to anyone under 21, with escalating civil penalties for…

New Jersey bars retail sale of flavored electronic smoking devices and liquid nicotine, every characterizing flavor except tobacco, under N.J.S.A. 2A:170-51.12, effective April 20…

New Jersey controls add-on lighting with an aiming rule, a counting rule and a flat ban on flashing. Under R.S. 39:3-54, any lighted lamp other than a headlamp, spot lamp or auxiliary…

New Jersey gives dash cams no windshield allowance. R.S. 39:3-74 forbids driving with any sign, poster, sticker or other non-transparent material on the front windshield, wings…

New Jersey has never authorized lane splitting or lane filtering, and the words appear nowhere in the Revised Statutes. A motorcycle riding the stripe between two lines of traffic is…

New Jersey does not ban license plate frames outright. R.S. 39:3-33 makes it an offence to drive with a frame or holder that conceals or obscures the state name, the registration…

New Jersey has no statute prohibiting a radar detector in a private passenger vehicle. A full-text search of the New Jersey statutes returns no provision on radar detectors at all, and…

Studded tires are legal in New Jersey, but only from November 15 to April 1 of a winter season. There is no permit, no sticker and nothing to apply for, and the window does not appear…

New Jersey publishes no legal darkness for the front of a passenger car, because add-on tint on the windshield and on the two front side windows is prohibited outright. R.S. 39:3-74…