Passaic, NJ — the municipal code, in plain language

Current through 2026-01-20. Official source: https://ecode360.com/PA1001

Every town writes its own rules, and Passaic's live in its municipal code — 127 chapters covering day-to-day questions like fences, parking, pets, permits and property upkeep. Below is the full map of what the code covers.

What's in the Passaic code

• Ch 1 — General Provisions (§ 1-1 – § 1-18)
• Ch 5 — Administration of Government (§ 5-1 – § 5-148)
• Ch 7 — Contracts (§ 7-1 – § 7-5)
• Ch 8 — Credit Card Payments (§ 8-1 – § 8-2)
• Ch 9 — Domestic Violence Crisis Intervention Team (§ 9-1 – § 9-4)
• Ch 11 — Elections (§ 11-1 – § 11-2)
• Ch 15 — Emergency, State of (§ 15-1 – § 15-4)
• Ch 17 — Enterprise Zone Development Corporation (§ 17-1 – § 17-9)
• Ch 18 — Ethics (§ 18-1 – § 18-6)
• Ch 18A — Financial Disclosure Statements (§ 18A-1 – § 18A-2)
• Ch 19 — Fire Department (§ 19-1 – § 19-5)
• Ch 23 — Health Officer (§ 23-1 – § 23-4)
• Ch 25 — Insurance (§ 25-1 – § 25-10)
• Ch 29 — Land Development Procedures (§ 29-1 – § 29-57)
• Ch 30 — Historic Preservation Commission (§ 30-1 – § 30-4)
• Ch 33 — Parking Authority (§ 33-1 – § 33-5)
• Ch 35 — Personnel Policies (§ 35-1 – § 35-20)
• Ch 39 — Police Department (§ 39-1 – § 39-18)
• Ch 40 — Political Fund-Raising (§ 40-1 – § 40-3)
• Ch 44 — Redevelopment Agency (§ 44-1 – § 44-5)
• Ch 46 — Retirement (§ 46-1 – § 46-3)
• Ch 49 — Salaries and Compensation
• Ch 59 — Videotaping City Council Meetings (§ 59-1)
• Ch 61 — Volunteer First Aid, Rescue and Ambulance Squads (§ 61-1 – § 61-8)
• Ch 70 — Adult Entertainment (§ 70-1 – § 70-5)
• Ch 71 — Alarm Devices (§ 71-1 – § 71-10)
• Ch 75 — Alcoholic Beverages (§ 75-1 – § 75-29)
• Ch 79 — Amusement Devices (§ 79-1 – § 79-15)
• Ch 83 — Apartment Rental Businesses (§ 83-1 – § 83-2)
• Ch 87 — Auctions and Auctioneers (§ 87-1 – § 87-11)
• Ch 89 — Auto Body Repair Facilities (§ 89-1 – § 89-8)
• Ch 90 — Automotive Repair Facilities (§ 90-1 – § 90-5)
• Ch 90A — Barbershops, Cosmetology and Hairstyling (§ 90A-1 – § 90A-22)
• Ch 91 — Body Piercing (§ 91-1 – § 91-9)
• Ch 93 — Brush, Grass and Weeds (§ 93-1 – § 93-4)
• Ch 95 — Buildings, Vacant (§ 95-1 – § 95-3)
• Ch 99 — Carnivals, Bazaars and Fairs (§ 99-1 – § 99-6)
• Ch 100 — Certificates of Occupancy and Tenancy (§ 100-1 – § 100-14)
• Ch 101 — Child-Care Services (§ 101-1 – § 101-6)
• Ch 102 — Clothing Bins (§ 102-1 – § 102-8)
• Ch 103 — Clubs (§ 103-1 – § 103-4)
• Ch 107 — Construction Codes, Uniform (§ 107-1 – § 107-12)
• Ch 110 — Corporations, Representation of (§ 110-1)
• Ch 113 — Curfew (§ 113-1 – § 113-6)
• Ch 115 — Dance Halls (§ 115-1 – § 115-3)
• Ch 116 — Demolition of Structures (§ 116-1 – § 116-26)
• Ch 117 — Dogs and Other Animals (§ 117-1 – § 117-37)
• Ch 121 — Dry-Cleaning Machines (§ 121-1)
• Ch 122 — Drug-Free Zones (§ 122-1 – § 122-2)
• Ch 125 — Dwelling Units (§ 125-1 – § 125-21)
• Ch 128 — Employer Regulations (§ 128-1 – § 128-14)
• Ch 129 — Entertainment (§ 129-1 – § 129-15)
• Ch 133 — Fees (§ 133-1 – § 133-12)
• Ch 135 — Filming (§ 135-1 – § 135-8)
• Ch 137 — Fire Hydrants (§ 137-1 – § 137-3)
• Ch 139 — Fire Prevention (§ 139-1 – § 139-31)
• Ch 143 — Floodplain Management Regulations (§ 143-1 – § 143-18)
• Ch 145 — Florists (§ 145-1)
• Ch 149 — Food Establishments (§ 149-1 – § 149-71)
• Ch 151 — Foreclosing Mortgages and Vacant Property, Registration of (§ 151-1 – § 151-14)
• Ch 153 — Games of Chance (§ 153-1 – § 153-11)
• Ch 157 — Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse (§ 157-1 – § 157-22)
• Ch 161 — Graffiti (§ 161-1 – § 161-5)
• Ch 162 — Grocery Stores (§ 162-1 – § 162-6)
• Ch 165 — Heating of Residential Property (§ 165-1 – § 165-6)
• Ch 169 — Insurance (§ 169-1 – § 169-3)
• Ch 173 — Junkyards and Junk Shops (§ 173-1 – § 173-10)
• Ch 175 — Landscaping (§ 175-1 – § 175-8)
• Ch 176 — Library (§ 176-1 – § 176-9)
• Ch 177 — Licenses (§ 177-1 – § 177-16)
• Ch 179 — Littering (§ 179-1 – § 179-16)
• Ch 181 — Loading Zones (§ 181-1 – § 181-5)
• Ch 185 — Multiple Dwellings (§ 185-1 – § 185-10)
• Ch 193 — Noise (§ 193-1 – § 193-16)
• Ch 194 — Public Seating (§ 194-1 – § 194-19)
• Ch 195 — Paint, Spray (§ 195-1 – § 195-7)
• Ch 197 — Parades and Flag-Raising Ceremonies (§ 197-1 – § 197-9)
• Ch 199 — Parental Responsibility (§ 199-1 – § 199-4)
• Ch 201 — Parking, Off-Street (§ 201-1 – § 201-2)
• Ch 203 — Parks and Playgrounds (§ 203-1 – § 203-9)
• Ch 207 — Peace and Good Order (§ 207-1 – § 207-7)
• Ch 211 — Peddling, Soliciting and Canvassing (§ 211-1 – § 211-30)
• Ch 215 — Police and Fire Equipment (§ 215-1 – § 215-2)
• Ch 217 — Poultry Markets (§ 217-1 – § 217-19)
• Ch 219 — Property Maintenance (§ 219-1 – § 219-190)
• Ch 223 — Public Health Nuisance Code (§ 223-1 – § 223-3)
• Ch 227 — Rat Control (§ 227-1 – § 227-6)
• Ch 229 — Real Estate Practitioners (§ 229-1 – § 229-10)
• Ch 230 — Recycling (§ 230-1 – § 230-12)
• Ch 231 — Rent Stabilization (§ 231-1 – § 231-25)
• Ch 231A — Rental Property (§ 231A-1 – § 231A-4)
• Ch 232 — Recreational Cannabis Establishments (§ 232-1 – § 232-29)
• Ch 234 — Sales, Garage, Yard, Porch and House (§ 234-1 – § 234-7)
• Ch 235 — Sales, Special (§ 235-1 – § 235-7)
• Ch 239 — Sewers (§ 239-1 – § 239-7)
• Ch 240 — Sexual Offenders, Registry of (§ 240-1 – § 240-5)
• Ch 243 — Shopping Carts (§ 243-1 – § 243-4)
• Ch 245 — Sidewalk Sales (§ 245-1 – § 245-6)
• Ch 247 — Signs (§ 247-1 – § 247-7)
• Ch 251 — Smoking (§ 251-1 – § 251-4)
• Ch 255 — Snow and Ice and Other Impediments, Removal of (§ 255-1 – § 255-5)
• Ch 257 — Storage Tanks, Underground (§ 257-1 – § 257-6)
• Ch 258 — Storm Sewers (§ 258-1 – § 258-21)
• Ch 258A — Stormwater Control (§ 258A-1 – § 258A-15)
• Ch 259 — Streets and Sidewalks (§ 259-1 – § 259-27)
• Ch 263 — Subdivision of Land (§ 263-1 – § 263-21)
• Ch 267 — Swimming Pools (§ 267-1 – § 267-4)
• Ch 275 — Taxation (§ 275-1 – § 275-22)
• Ch 277 — Taxicabs (§ 277-1 – § 277-35)
• Ch 278 — Limousines (§ 278-1 – § 278-30)
• Ch 280 — Telephones, Outdoor (§ 280-1 – § 280-25)
• Ch 281 — Tenancies, Protected (§ 281-1 – § 281-3)
• Ch 283 — Tobacco (§ 283-1 – § 283-11)
• Ch 284 — Tractor-Trailers (§ 284-1 – § 284-2)
• Ch 285 — Transient Merchants (§ 285-1)
• Ch 289 — Trees and Shrubbery (§ 289-1 – § 289-12)
• Ch 293 — Vehicles, Abandoned (§ 293-1 – § 293-5)
• Ch 295 — Vehicles and Traffic (§ 295-1 – § 295-70)
• Ch 297 — Vehicles, Towing of (§ 297-1 – § 297-7)
• Ch 298 — Vehicles, Vending (§ 298-1 – § 298-2)
• Ch 299 — Vending Machines (§ 299-1 – § 299-14)
• Ch 301 — Waterfront (§ 301-1 – § 301-15)
• Ch 303 — Wells (§ 303-1 – § 303-6)
• Ch 317 — Zoning (§ 317-1 – § 317-89)
• Ch A321 — Cable Television Franchise (§ A321-1 – § A321-26)
• Ch A323 — Telephone Facilities (§ A323-1 – § A323-15)
• Ch DL — Disposition List (§ DL-1)