39:4-138 Places where parking prohibited; exceptions; moving vehicle not under ones control into prohibited area.
39:4-138. Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a traffic or police officer or traffic sign or signal, no operator of a vehicle shall stand or park the vehicle in any of the following places:
a.Within an intersection;
b.On a crosswalk;
c.Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within at least 20 feet of a point on the curb immediately opposite the end of a safety zone;
d.In front of a public or private driveway;
e. (1) Within 25 feet of the nearest crosswalk or side line of a street or intersecting highway, except at alleys and as provided in section 2 of P.L.2009, c.257 (C.39:4-138.6); or
(2)Within 10 feet of the nearest crosswalk or side line of a street or intersecting highway, if a curb extension or bulbout has been constructed at that crosswalk;
f.On a sidewalk;
g.In any appropriately marked No Parking space established pursuant to the duly promulgated regulations of the Commissioner of Transportation;
h.Within 50 feet of a stop sign except as provided in section 2 of P.L.2009, c.257 (C.39:4-138.6);
i.Within 10 feet of a fire hydrant;
j.Within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;
k.Within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station within 75 feet of said entrance, when properly signposted;
l.Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic, when properly signposted;
m.On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
n.Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway, or within a highway tunnel or underpass, or on the immediate approaches thereto except where space for parking is provided;
o.In any space on public or private property appropriately marked for vehicles for the physically handicapped pursuant to P.L.1977, c.202 (C.39:4-197.5), P.L.1975, c.217 (C.52:27D-119 et seq.) or any other applicable law unless the vehicle is authorized by law to be parked therein and a handicapped person is either the driver or a passenger in that vehicle. State, county or municipal law enforcement officers or parking enforcement authority officers shall enforce the parking restrictions on spaces appropriately marked for vehicles for the physically handicapped on both public and private property.
No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his control into any such prohibited area or away from a curb such distance as is unlawful.
9:4-138(a) Improper parking within intersection $54
39:4-138(b) Improper parking on a crosswalk $54
39:4-138(c) Improper parking in safety bus zone $54
39:4-138(d) Improper parking in front of driveway $54
39:4-138(e) Improper parking within 25 ft. of crosswalk $54
39:4-138(f) Improper parking on a sidewalk $54
39:4-138(g) Improper parking in a no parking area established by State Highway $54
Department
39:4-138(h) Improper parking within 50 feet of stop sign $54
39:4-138(i) Improper parking within 10 feet of fire hydrant $54
39:4-138(j) Improper parking within 50 feet of railroad $54
39:4-138(k) Improper parking within 20 feet of driveway entrance to fire station $54
or 75 feet on opposite side of street (when properly signposted)
39:4-138(l) Improper parking alongside or opposite street excavation or $54
obstruction, causing traffic obstruction (when properly signposted)
39:4-138(m) Double parking $54
39:4-138(n) Improper parking on a bridge, elevated structure, underpass or $54
immediate approaches (except where space for parking is provided)
39:4-139 Loading or unloading for unreasonable period of time $54
39:4-138.1 Determination of no parking zones.1.The commissioner, by regulations, shall have authority to establish and maintain no parking zones on portions of State highways where parking is deemed hazardous or inimical to the proper flow of traffic.
No parking zones so established shall be clearly marked by appropriate signs of a type and design according to specifications adopted by the commissioner.
4. a. There is hereby established a body corporate and politic, with corporate succession, to be known as the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission. The commission shall be established in the Executive Branch of the State Government and for the purposes of complying with the provisions of Article V, Section IV, paragraph 1 of the New Jersey Constitution, the commission is allocated, in but not of, the Department of Transportation, but notwithstanding this allocation, the commission shall be independent of any supervision and control by the department or by any board or officer thereof. The commission is hereby constituted as an instrumentality of the State exercising public and essential governmental functions, and the exercise by the commission of the powers conferred by this act shall be deemed and held to be an essential governmental function of the State.