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A1270 • 2026

Prohibits DEP from requiring certain municipalities to adopt ordinance that controls tree removal and replacement.

Prohibits DEP from requiring certain municipalities to adopt ordinance that controls tree removal and replacement.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Inganamort, Michael
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Prohibits DEP from requiring certain municipalities to adopt ordinance that controls tree removal and replacement.

Prohibits DEP from requiring certain municipalities to adopt ordinance that controls tree removal and replacement.

What This Bill Does

  • Prohibits DEP from requiring certain municipalities to adopt ordinance that controls tree removal and replacement.
  • Topic: Environment and Solid Waste Fiscal note: This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee

Official Summary Text

Prohibits DEP from requiring certain municipalities to adopt ordinance that controls tree removal and replacement.
Topic:
Environment and Solid Waste
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1270

ASSEMBLY, No. 1270

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman MICHAEL INGANAMORT

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

Assemblyman PAUL KANITRA

District 10 (Monmouth and Ocean)

Assemblyman ERIK PETERSON

District 23 (Hunterdon, Somerset and Warren)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Auth, Assemblywoman Fantasia and Assemblyman
DePhillips

SYNOPSIS

���� Prohibits DEP from requiring certain municipalities
to adopt ordinance that controls tree removal and replacement.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.

��

An Act
concerning tree removal and replacement ordinances, and
supplementing P.L.1977, c.74 (C.58:10A-1 et seq.).

����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.� Notwithstanding the
provisions of any other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, the
Department of Environmental Protection shall not require any municipality that
is assigned to Tier A under N.J.A.C.7:14A-25.3 to adopt and enforce an
ordinance that controls tree removal and replacement as part of the Municipal
Stormwater Regulation Program.

���� 2.� This act shall take effect
immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill prohibits the
Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) from requiring any municipality
that is assigned to Tier A under N.J.A.C.7:14A-25.3 to: adopt and enforce an
ordinance that controls tree removal and replacement as part of the Municipal
Stormwater Regulation Program (program).�

���� Under the program, all
municipalities are assigned either to Tier A or to Tier B as follows:

���� (1)� an entire municipality is
assigned to Tier A if that municipality: (1) is located entirely or partially
within an urbanized area as determined by the 2000 Decennial Census by the
Bureau of the Census or a subsequent and superseding Decennial Census, and has
a population of at least 1,000 within an urbanized area as determined by that
Census; (2)� has a population density of at least 1,000 per square mile, and a
population of at least 10,000 as determined by that Census; (3) has a
stormwater sewer system discharging directly into the salt waters of Monmouth,
Ocean, Atlantic, or Cape May counties; (4) requests Tier A assignment from the
DEP; or (5) operates a stormwater discharge identified under N.J.A.C.
7:14A-25.2(a)4, provided that the DEP determines that such identification
warrants assignment of the municipality to Tier A; and

���� (2) every municipality not
assigned to Tier A is assigned to Tier B.

���� In November 2023, the DEP
modified the New Jersey Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NJPDES) Tier A
Municipal Stormwater General Permit to require Tier A municipalities to adopt a
model ordinance governing tree removal and replacement.� This bill would
abrogate that provision of the general permit.