[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Delanco 10-12-1971 by Ord. No. 19-1971 as Ch. 73 of the 1971 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A. 
No person shall, within the limits of the Township of Delanco:
(1) 
(Reserved)[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection A(1), concerning public intoxication, was repealed 2-9-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-3.
(2) 
(Reserved)[2]
[2]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection A(2), concerning loitering, was repealed 2-9-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-3.
(3) 
Operate or use any radio receiving set, phonograph or other sound-producing instrument, device or apparatus in such manner that the sound thereof shall annoy any person or persons or disturb the comfort, rest or repose of any person or persons.
(4) 
Permit, make or continue or cause to be permitted, made or continued any unnecessary noise which shall disturb the comfort, rest and repose of any person or persons being in his, her or their place of abode or at any public or private meeting or at church services.
(5) 
Throw or discard any tin cans, bottles, garbage, debris, junk or refuse of any kind whatsoever into the waters of any spring, pond, stream, lake, river or any other body of water or upon any public street or public place, or discharge any sewage or waste into said waters or places or any of them or pollute said waters in any manner.
(6) 
Keep or harbor any dog which shall disturb the neighborhood by excessive barking, whining or howling.
(7) 
Place or cause to be placed any obstruction of any kind whatsoever in any stream, pond, spring or lake so as to interfere with the natural flow or change the course thereof in any manner whatsoever without first obtaining the necessary permit to do so.
(8) 
Throw any paper or posters, stones, sticks, glass, metal or any hard, dangerous or offensive substance upon any sidewalk, street, highway or public or private place or at any car, vehicle, house, building, fence or person.
(9) 
Drive any vehicle over the public streets so loaded, driven or constructed that the contents or portions thereof shall spill, lean, fall or blow therefrom onto public or private property or streets.
(10) 
Appear on any street, road, avenue, park or other public place in a state of nudity, or make any indecent exposure of his or her person, or commit or do any lewd or indecent act or behave in a lewd or indecent manner.
(11) 
Disrobe in any automobile, truck or vehicle while the same is upon any parking place, street, road, avenue, park or other public place.
(12) 
Sell or offer to sell any indecent picture, book or thing, or exhibit or perform any indecent, immoral or lewd play or other representation.
(13) 
Keep or maintain a disorderly house or a house of ill fame, or allow or permit any house, shop, store or other building or structure owned or occupied by him or her to be used as a disorderly house or house of ill fame.
(14) 
Solicit, invite or in any manner suggest by word of mouth or any writing or other communication or by any device whatsoever any lewd, lascivious or other immoral act.
(15) 
Permit any house, shop, store or other building or structure owned or occupied by him or her to be frequented or resorted to by noisy, riotous or disorderly persons or by prostitutes, gamblers or vagrants.
(16) 
Maliciously or intentionally destroy, damage or injure any property, public or private.
(17) 
Cause or permit to be emitted any vile, offensive, obnoxious or nauseating odor that may be vile, offensive, obnoxious or nauseating to any person.
(18) 
Keep, possess or maintain any faro table, roulette wheel, equipment or supplies for lottery and numbers games or other games of chance or any pinball machine designed for gambling and pool tables, whether coin-operated or not, or other gambling device whatever.
[Amended 3-6-1975 by Ord. No. 2-1975]
(19) 
Have in his or her possession or custody any automobile in his or her possession or custody, any ticket or tickets, slip or slips, paper or papers, document or documents or memoranda in any way pertaining to the business of a numbers game. The term "numbers game" as used in this subsection shall mean any betting on any number or sets or arrangements of numbers on or according to any plan or method whatsoever.
(20) 
Carry, without lawful authority, any revolver, pistol or other firearm or any air rifle or air pistol or other instrument of the kind known as a blackjack, sling shot, blowgun or similar device, billy club, sandbag, bludgeon, metal knuckles, dagger, dirk, dangerous knife, stiletto, bomb or other high explosive concealed in or about his or her clothes or person or in any portable vehicle, carriage, motorcycle or other vehicle.
(21) 
Have upon his or her person or in his or her possession any picklock, key, crow, jack, bit or other implement with any intent to break and enter into any building.
(22) 
Participate in any practice, sport or exercise having tendency to annoy, disturb or frighten any person or persons on any sidewalk, street, road, park or other public or private place or having a tendency to annoy or frighten horses or other animals.
(23) 
Enter any building or any public or private lands and without lawful authority break, injure or deface such building or any part thereof or the fences, outhouses or other property belonging to or connected with such building or lands, or disturb the exercises of any public school, church or other place of public assemblage, or molest or give annoyance to children or persons attending such school or annoy any teachers therein or persons conducting such exercises.
(24) 
Hinder, prevent or deter in any manner or by any device whatever any fireman or other person from rendering lawful assistance in abating or quelling a fire, or hinder or interfere with any fireman going to or returning from any fire or place from which a fire alarm proceeds, or hinder or obstruct any fire engine, hook and ladder truck, hose cart or other fire apparatus going to or from any place from which a fire alarm proceeds or where any building or property may be burning.
(25) 
Hinder, obstruct, prevent or deter in any manner or by any device whatever any ambulance or emergency squad member or other person from rendering lawful assistance at any accident, disaster or other emergency, or any ambulance or emergency squad equipment while going to or from or attending at an accident, disaster or other emergency.
(26) 
Willfully and maliciously ring or sound or cause to be rung or sounded any bell, siren or other alarm of any fire, ambulance or emergency company or squad, and thereby or by any other means give or cause to be given a false alarm of fire or emergency.
(27) 
Enter upon or trespass upon the land or property of any other persons without lawful permission to do so.
(28) 
Leave or threaten to leave his or her minor child, children or other lawful dependent to be maintained by said Township or to become chargeable thereto.
(29) 
Being without sufficient property or means for his or her subsistence or support, live idly or not engage in some honest employment or fail to provide for himself or herself or for his or her family.
(30) 
Pretend to use or have any skill in physiognomy, palmistry or like crafty science, or pretend to tell destinies or fortunes for pay or other reward.
(31) 
Remove, interfere with or disturb any lantern, warning signal, obstruction or barricade lawfully placed in or across any public street or alley by the public authority, its contractors, agents, servants or employees.
(32) 
Depositing substances in streets. No person shall place or throw or suffer or permit the depositing of any stone, sticks, glass, snow or ice or any hard, dangerous or offensive substance upon any street, avenue, road, highway or other public thoroughfare, nor shall any person throw any such object or substance at, upon or against any person, vehicle of transportation, building or other structure.
[Added 12-4-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-22]
(33) 
Obstructions in streets. No person shall unnecessarily obstruct any street, avenue, road, highway, alley or public place with any kind of vehicle or vehicles or box or boxes, lumber, wood or any other thing, but the provisions of this section shall not prevent persons who are building from occupying, until notified by any Township official to cease such occupancy, 1/2 of the street in front of the place where they are so building, unless another person is building on the opposite side of the street, in which case neither shall occupy more than 1/4 of the street. No person who is building shall continue such occupancy of any street after notice from any Township official or police officer to discontinue the same.
[Added 12-4-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-23]
B. 
All other riotous, indecent or disorderly conduct, breach of the peace and vagrancy not hereinabove specifically mentioned is hereby prohibited.
The term "person" as used in this chapter shall, wherever appropriate in connection with the context, include corporation, partnership, association and individual and shall include the plural. The masculine pronoun shall include the feminine.
All fines imposed and collected under and by virtue of this chapter shall be paid into the treasury of the Township.
[Amended 1-19-1998 by Ord. No. 1-1998]
Any person who shall violate any of the terms or provisions of this chapter or who shall commit or do any act or thing in this chapter prohibited shall be liable to a penalty as provided in Chapter 1, General Provisions, Article II, General Penalty.