Point Pleasant Beach Municipal Court – What To Know

Reviewed by William A. Proetta, Esq. · Updated October 2026

Point Pleasant Beach Municipal Court is located at 416 New Jersey Avenue, Point Pleasant Beach, NJ 08742; the date, time and Zoom details for each case appear on the court notice mailed to the defendant. This court handles traffic and parking summonses, DWI complaints, disorderly persons offenses and borough ordinance violations written in Point Pleasant Beach, the oceanfront borough known for its boardwalk and Jenkinson’s Aquarium. By volume it is among the busiest courts in Ocean County, with nearly 17,000 filings in the latest state report. Charged in Point Pleasant Beach? Calls to (848) 238-2100 reach us 24 hours a day, seven days a week, y hablamos español con gusto.

Point Pleasant Beach Criminal Defense Lawyer

Only about 4,800 people lived in Point Pleasant Beach at the 2020 census, yet every summer its beaches, boardwalk arcades, bars and restaurants draw crowds from across New Jersey and beyond. A stop on Route 35 or a charge after a night near the boardwalk can bring a visitor into this court as easily as a resident. A disorderly persons conviction can still mean jail exposure and a lasting record, and a DWI still costs your license regardless of where you live. Our Ocean County criminal defense team represents visitors and residents alike in Point Pleasant Beach cases.

Why Point Pleasant Beach Clients Call Us

• Your notice sets the date. Point Pleasant Beach gives each defendant a date, time and Zoom details on the court notice, so we confirm that date with the court before anything else.
• The biggest backlog in the county. State figures show 4,880 backlogged cases and 7,270 pending at the end of June 2026, both the highest of Ocean County’s 33 municipal courts.
• A name people confuse. Point Pleasant Beach and Point Pleasant Borough are separate towns with separate courts, and a filing or phone call sent to the wrong one does nothing for your case.
• DWI filings went up. DWI complaints rose from 54 to 65 last court year, and each one carries license consequences that a parking ticket never does.

Point Pleasant Beach or Point Pleasant Borough?

These are two different municipalities. Point Pleasant Beach is the small oceanfront borough, and its court is on New Jersey Avenue. Point Pleasant Borough is the larger inland town next door, with a different judge, a different phone number and a courthouse at 2233 Bridge Avenue. Read the court name on your ticket or complaint before you call, pay or log in. If it says Point Pleasant rather than Point Pleasant Beach, see our Point Pleasant Borough court page instead.

When you come to court, navigate to 416 New Jersey Avenue. Plan ahead for the building’s rules: parking is limited, everyone entering the court passes through security screening, the police confiscate any weapons, and cell phones must be switched off at the entrance.

Tracey McCrystal is the court administrator, and she also serves as administrator of the Bay Head court, the neighboring borough to the south. Robert LePore, JMC, is the judge, and Steven Zabarsky is the municipal prosecutor who handles the State’s side of Point Pleasant Beach cases.

What Point Pleasant Beach’s Court Numbers Mean

For its size, Point Pleasant Beach carries a very heavy docket. Covering July 2025–June 2026, the NJ Judiciary’s municipal court statistics record 16,893 filings, an increase of about 17.7% from 14,350 the prior year. Parking tickets drive that total: 10,668 of them, roughly 63% of all filings and the highest parking count of any Ocean County court. Moving violations climbed about 50%, from 1,501 to 2,245, or about 13% of the total. The report counts 3,915 criminal filings, of which 77 were indictable and 497 were disorderly persons complaints, and 65 DWI filings, up about 20% from 54.

The court resolved 15,145 cases, a 90% clearance rate, meaning it closed about nine cases for every ten that arrived. That gap shows up at the end of June 2026: 4,880 backlogged and 7,270 pending cases, the largest figures for either measure among Ocean County courts. A backlog this size may stretch the time between appearances. Still, these numbers describe how busy the court is, not how your own case will be decided.

Court Sessions and Zoom in Point Pleasant Beach

Virtual appearances in Point Pleasant Beach run on Zoom. Plan around your notice and these rules:

• Your notice is your calendar. The date and time on the notice control. If you misplaced it or cannot read it, call the court at 732-892-1118, extension 5, on a weekday between 9:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
• Look on the front of the notice for login details. The meeting ID and password are printed there. The court says it does not send Zoom links by email.
• View the opening statement video. Before entering a virtual session, you must watch the Official Municipal Court Opening Statement video, which explains your rights.
• Phone access is allowed. The court lets you join by dial-in if video is not possible, using the information on your notice.
• Payable matters are scheduled by phone. To have a payable ticket put on the calendar, call extension 5.

What Cases Does Point Pleasant Beach Municipal Court Handle?

Moving and parking tickets, drunk driving, petty disorderly and disorderly persons charges and borough ordinance cases all come before this court. A sampling, each with its statute, appears below.

Criminal and Disorderly Persons Offenses

• N.J.S.A. 2C:33-2 — fights, loud disturbances and similar disorderly conduct near bars and the boardwalk
• N.J.S.A. 2C:12-1(a) — simple assault where the injury alleged is not serious
• N.J.S.A. 2C:35-10 — CDS possession charges that remain in, or are downgraded to, the borough court
• N.J.S.A. 2C:20-11 — shoplifting from boardwalk shops and local stores
• N.J.S.A. 2C:29-1 — obstructing police, for example getting in the way of an arrest on the boardwalk
• N.J.S.A. 2C:18-3 — trespass on closed beaches or private land

DWI and Traffic Offenses

• N.J.S.A. 39:4-50 — DWI based on alcohol, drugs or a 0.08% reading
• N.J.S.A. 39:4-50.4a — declining the Alcotest at the station
• N.J.S.A. 39:4-97 — careless driving, a common add-on after fender-benders in beach traffic
• N.J.S.A. 39:3-29 — failing to produce a license, registration or insurance card
• N.J.S.A. 39:6B-2 — driving a car with no liability insurance

Moving tickets in the borough tend to come from Route 35, the main north-south road, and from the spot at the borough’s southwest edge where Route 88 meets it. Parking summonses cluster near the beaches and the roughly one-mile boardwalk between the Manasquan Inlet and New Jersey Avenue, where the borough charges for parking.

Paying or Contesting a Point Pleasant Beach Ticket

Ticket payments for Point Pleasant Beach go through NJMCdirect, which also shows ticket details. The court warns that summonses issued on a Friday, weekend or holiday take longer to appear online, so give it a few days.

A payment works as a guilty plea: the case ends, the conviction is recorded, and any MVC points, surcharges and insurance effects follow. Parking tickets usually stop at the fine, but moving tickets can add points and some charges carry a license suspension, so get legal advice before paying one of those. The court also offers a Plea By Mail form and a Records Request form for getting court documents. To request a court-appointed public defender, fill out the Financial Questionnaire, offered in both English and Spanish.

Preparing for Your Point Pleasant Beach Court Date

• Check which Point Pleasant. Confirm the notice says Point Pleasant Beach and the New Jersey Avenue address.
• Keep the notice where you can find it. It holds your date, time and Zoom credentials, and the court will not email them.
• Plan for the summer. If you must come in person between June and September, beach traffic on Route 35 and scarce parking can slow you down.
• Leave anything prohibited at home. Security screening applies to everyone, and your phone must be off once you are inside.
• Collect your records. Bring or have ready your license, registration, insurance card, the summons, and any receipts, photos or parking stubs that help your side.

When a Point Pleasant Beach Charge Leaves Municipal Court

None of the 77 indictable complaints filed in Point Pleasant Beach last year can be tried on New Jersey Avenue. County prosecutors in Toms River review each file, and the complaints they pursue are tried in the Ocean County Superior Court there. The county can also reduce a charge to the disorderly persons level and send it back to the borough. Defendants without a significant record should ask whether Pretrial Intervention, conditional dismissal or another diversionary program might apply, because completing the program successfully generally means a dismissal.

Nearby Courts

Point Pleasant Beach borders Bay Head to the south and Point Pleasant Borough to the west. Across the Manasquan Inlet and the Manasquan River lie Manasquan and Brielle in Monmouth County, whose courts are not covered here. Farther south on Route 35, past Bay Head and Mantoloking, is Brick Township. Every one of these municipalities keeps a separate court, and a case is heard where the officer wrote the summons, not where you happen to live.

Official court page: Point Pleasant Beach Municipal Court (Borough of Point Pleasant Beach)

Point Pleasant Beach Municipal Court FAQs

Talk to a Point Pleasant Beach Criminal Defense Lawyer Today

Because there is no posted calendar and the county’s largest backlog sits here, a Point Pleasant Beach case can drag on if nobody is tracking it. Dial (848) 238-2100; the first case review is free and kept confidential. Someone picks up day or night, and our team speaks Spanish. If you live out of town, a phone or video meeting may be easiest, and we can also meet in person when that suits you better.