Filming in Edison, New Jersey

Two things the ordinance text does not settle

Both of these have cost productions money elsewhere in New Jersey, because the natural reading of the ordinance is the wrong one.

Permit applications go through the Township Clerk. The Clerk issues the current application and hold-harmless form; request the packet directly rather than working from a copy found elsewhere.

Public safety, and who schedules it

The Business Administrator or the Chief of Police initiates the Public Safety Plan. Where police or fire personnel are required, scheduling is handled through Off Duty Solutions rather than by the production calling a department directly.

Treat those staffing costs as separate from the permit fee. They are determined by the plan for your specific footprint, not by a published rate you can look up in advance.

Insurance: follow the Clerk’s current packet

The hold-harmless form Edison currently supplies asks for the Township to be named as an additional insured and lists $1 million per person and $3 million aggregate liability coverage.

That differs from older ordinance language, which is exactly the kind of gap that produces a rejected certificate on the day. Follow the current Clerk-provided packet and confirm the insurance requirement with the Clerk in writing before your broker issues anything.

The Township uses the standard New Jersey insurer certificate of insurance form. There is no special endorsement wording to chase, and you should be sceptical of any third-party template claiming otherwise.

If the weather turns

Rescheduling for weather or other good cause is governed by §11-34.2, the permits section of the Township’s filming ordinance. New dates may be issued without another permit fee, which is more generous than several neighbouring municipalities. It is not automatic; raise it with the Clerk as soon as you know.

Edison identified the rescheduling provision as §11-34.2(e) in August 2026 correspondence, while an earlier reading of the code taken for this page cited (c). We could not retrieve the subsection text from the Township’s published code to settle which letter is current, so we cite the section rather than guess. The substance, rescheduling without a second permit fee, is confirmed directly by the Township. Ask the Clerk to cite the subsection in writing if you need it for a contract.

What we are not publishing

Edison supplied a current application and hold-harmless form. We are not hosting or linking them, because those exact files are not held in this repository and a stale copy of a permit form is worse than no copy. Request the current packet from the Township Clerk.

The supplied application also contains a garbled filming-hours line that does not parse as a usable instruction. Rather than reproduce it and have someone plan a day around it, we have left it out. Ask the Clerk to confirm your permitted prep, filming and wrap hours in writing.

Confirm before filming

Confirm before filming. The municipal permit fee is only one line of the cost. Police, fire, traffic control, parking, cleanup, escrow and property-owner charges are project-specific and set departmentally. Ask for a written estimate for your actual footprint before you budget.

Official sources

• OfficialTownship of Edison Code, Chapter 11, including § 11-34 Filming and Videotaping. Code includes legislation through March 25, 2026.
• OfficialNJMPTVC Film Ready certified-localities list, checked August 26, 2026
• OfficialNew Jersey Film Ready requirements and fee schedule
• OfficialNJ Motion Picture & Television Commission, Film Ready New Jersey

Last verified: August 2026. Municipal requirements, fees and staffing change. Confirm current information with the municipality before relying on it. Report a correction.

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Related New Jersey production research

Edison sits in Middlesex County, next to East Brunswick.

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