Municipal Court
As is with all court, municipal court is a serious matter in New Jersey. We advise our clients not to take any matter too lightly. The expense of an attorney can be far outweighed by the costs associated with an adverse ruling. Municipal court covers a wide range of matters from traffic citations to driving while intoxicated.
New Jersey Municipal Courts handle a variety of things: parking offense, non-DWI traffic offenses, disorderly and petty disorderly person offenses, local ordinance violations, indictable offenses, and DWI offenses.
In 2011 the New Jersey Municipal Courts handled the following offenses:
|
Type of Offense
|
Cases Added
|
| Parking Offenses |
2,511,595
|
| Non-DWI Traffic Offenses |
2,607,893
|
| DP/PDP Offenses |
436,833
|
| Other Non-Traffic Offenses |
287,045
|
| Indictable Offenses |
200,260
|
| DWI Offenses |
36,064
|
| TOTAL |
6,079,690
|