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Long Branch adopts ordinance adding EV charging stall and requiring active charging
Summary
On Feb. 25 the Long Branch City Council adopted Ordinance O-126 to add an electric vehicle charging station in the municipal lot on Belmont Avenue and to require that electric vehicles parked in designated stalls be actively charging.
The Long Branch City Council voted Feb. 25 to adopt Ordinance O-126, an amendment that adds an electric vehicle charging station in the municipal lot on Belmont Avenue and adds language requiring electric vehicles parked in the designated stalls to be actively charging while occupying those spaces.
The ordinance, introduced Feb. 3, was taken up in a public hearing at the Feb. 25 meeting. The council opened the public portion and invited comments; no members of the public spoke on O‑126. The council then closed the hearing and moved to adopt O‑126 on its second and final reading. The clerk recorded a roll‑call vote with Council members Mr. Vieira, Mrs. Whittis and Mr. Dangler voting yes; two members were recorded absent. The motion carried.
The amendment adds a charging station in the Belmont Avenue municipal lot and includes a provision that, according to the ordinance text read into the record, vehicles occupying the electric‑vehicle stalls “must be actively charging while parked in one of the designated stalls.” Enforcement mechanisms and penalties were not spelled out during the meeting and were not discussed in detail on the record.
The council provided standard notice that the ordinance would be advertised according to law following adoption. No public testimony opposed the amendment during the hearing.
The ordinance text as read does not specify fee changes or enforcement details; those items, if adopted elsewhere in city rules, were not noted during the Feb. 25 meeting.
