[Adopted 6-5-1947 by Ord. No. 129 (Ch.
45 of the 1970 Code)]
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
PERSON
Wherever appropriate in connection with the context, includes
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 article shall be paid into the treasury of the Borough.
Any person who shall violate any of the terms or provisions of this article or who shall commit or do any act or thing in this article prohibited shall, upon conviction thereof before the Judge authorized to hear and determine the matter, be subject to a penalty as set forth in Chapter
1, §Â
1-15, General penalty.
[Adopted 10-7-1971 by Ord. No. 304 (Ch.
35, Art. I, of the 1970 Code)]
Whenever, in his judgment, the Mayor of the
Borough of Oceanport or, in his absence or in the event of his inability
to act, the President of the Borough Council or the Chairman of the
Police Committee determines that an emergency exists as a result of
mob action or other civil disobedience causing danger of injury to
or damages to persons or property, he shall have power to impose by
proclamation any or all of the following regulations necessary to
preserve the peace and order of the Borough:
A. To impose a curfew upon all or any portion of the
Borough thereby requiring all persons in such designated curfew areas
to forthwith remove themselves from the public streets, alleys, parks
or other public areas; provided, however, that physicians, nurses
and ambulance operators performing medical services, utility personnel
maintaining essential public services, firemen and Borough-authorized
or -requested law enforcement officers and personnel may be exempted
from such curfew.
B. To order the closing of any business establishments
anywhere within the Borough for the period of the emergency, such
businesses to include, but not be limited to, those selling intoxicating
liquors, cereal malt beverages, gasoline or firearms.
C. To designate any public street, thoroughfare or vehicle
parking areas closed to motor vehicles and pedestrian traffic.
D. To call upon regular and auxiliary law enforcement
agencies and organizations within or without the Borough to assist
in preserving and keeping the peace within the Borough.
The proclamation of emergency provided herein
shall become effective upon the same being filed with the Borough
Clerk and posted in at least 10 public places in the Borough.
Any emergency proclaimed in accordance with
the provisions of this article shall terminate upon the issuance of
a proclamation determining an emergency no longer exists.
Any person who shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with the orders of duly authorized law enforcement officers or personnel charged with the responsibility of enforcing the proclamation of emergency authorized herein shall be deemed guilty of violating the provisions of this article and, upon conviction therefor, shall be punished by a penalty as set forth in Chapter
1, §Â
1-15, General penalty.