[Added 12-4-1997 by Ord. No. 29-1997]
[Amended 6-14-1998 by Ord. No. 7-1998; 10-19-2022 by Ord. No.
24-2022]
A.
The
Mayor and/or Township Administrator, the Chief of Police or, in their
absence, the ranking police officer of the Township of Pemberton are
hereby authorized and permitted to provide for the closing of any
street or portion thereof to motor vehicle traffic on any day or days
or during specific hours on any day or days whenever they find that
such closing is necessary for the preservation of the public safety,
health or welfare. Notwithstanding the forgoing, however, and pursuant
to N.J.S.A. 39:4-8b, any closure of a street for a period greater
than 48 consecutive hours shall not become effective unless and until
approval has been received from the Commissioner of the Department
of Transportation. The authority to close a municipal roadway or street
shall also include the authority to preclude parking along such roadway
or street.
B.
Upon
a determination of the need to perform municipal infrastructure or
public utilities infrastructure work within a roadway, street or municipal
right-of-way, the Mayor and/or Township Administrator, the Chief of
Police or, in their absence, the ranking police officer of the Township
of Pemberton are hereby authorized and permitted to preclude parking
on such municipal roadway, street or right-of-way for the duration
of such work.
In the event that the Mayor and/or Township
Administrator determine that the implementation of the closing of
streets and/or roadways as described in the foregoing section is warranted,
the Mayor and/or Township Administrator shall provide for the posting
of proper warning signs of such closing on any street or portion thereof,
during the time that the same is closed in pursuance of this article.
Said warning signs shall include, but not necessarily be limited to,
a notice of the closing posted at the beginning and ending points
of the closed section of the roadway or street so closed, with the
erection of a barricade at said point as well.
A.
Notification
that parking is precluded due to the closure of a municipal roadway,
street or right-of-way shall be given to the owner or operator of
any vehicle parked along such roadway or street prior to the posting
of temporary no parking signs. Said owner or operator of such vehicle
shall promptly remove it from the street or roadway.
[Added 10-19-2022 by Ord. No. 24-2022]
[Added 10-19-2022 by Ord. No. 24-2022]
After notification to owners or operators of vehicles as described
herein and/or the posting of temporary no parking signs, any vehicle
parked or standing in violation of this article shall be deemed a
nuisance and menace to the safe and proper regulation of traffic and/or
an obstruction within the right-of-way, and any peace officer may
provide for the removal of such vehicle. The owner shall pay the reasonable
costs of the removal and storage which may result from such removal
before regaining possession of the vehicle.
[Amended 10-19-2022 by Ord. No. 24-2022]
Where a municipal roadway or street is declared
closed to traffic for any lawful purpose pursuant to this article,
and a notice of the closing has been posted at the beginning and ending
points of the closed section of the highway, road or street, and the
barricade erected at those points, any person who, without the permission
of the Mayor or Township Administrator of the Township of Pemberton,
mutilates or removes the notice, or damages, destroys or removes any
warning sign or signal or removes the barricade placed or posted by
the Mayor or Township Administrator, at any point along the highway,
road or street in connection with or relating to the closed portion
thereof; or drives a vehicle over or upon the closed section of the
highway, road or street which he knows or should have reason to know
has been closed to traffic; or violates any rule or regulation for
the use of the highway, road or street duly made by the Mayor, Township
Administrator or governing body, shall be subject to a fine of not
more than $100 per violation in addition to being assessed the cost
of restitution for any item mutilated, removed, damaged or destroyed.
[Added 4-7-2021 by Ord.
No. 11-2021]
The streets or parts of streets described in Schedule V (§ 182-52), attached to and made a part of this chapter, are hereby designated as dead-end streets at the intersection indicated.
