Borough of Rutherford, NJ
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2023-12-11
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The Code
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Chapter 97 Signs
- The Code
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 Administrative Offices
- Ch 5 Administrative Code
- Ch 6 Alarm Equipment Installation
- Ch 7 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 8 Amusement Games
- Ch 10 Animals
- Ch 12 Bicycles
- Ch 14 (Reserved)
- Ch 15 (Reserved)
- Ch 16 Board of Health
- Ch 17 (Reserved)
- Ch 18 Building Code
- Ch 19 Builders and Contractors Licensing
- Ch 19A Cannabis
- Ch 20 Car Lots: New and Used
- Ch 20A Cat Licensing
- Ch 21 Clean Environment
- Ch 21A Commercial Property Maintenance
- Ch 22 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 22A Convenience Stores
- Ch 22B (Reserved)
- Ch 23 Curfew, Emergency
- Ch 24z (Reserved)
- Ch 25 Disability Act Advisory Committee
- Ch 26 Dogs, Pets, Animals and Kennels
- Ch 27 Donation Clothing Bins
- Ch 28 Dry Cleaning and Laundry Machines, Coin-Operated
- Ch 29 (Reserved)
- Ch 30 Elevators
- Ch 31 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 31A Finance Department
- Ch 32 Fingerprint Identification and Criminal History Record Checks
- Ch 33 Fire Department
- Ch 33A Firefighter Auxiliary Program, Junior
- Ch 34 Filming
- Ch 34A Fire Safety
- Ch 35 Fire Lanes or Zones
- Ch 36 Food and Beverage Vending Machines
- Ch 36A Food Establishments
- Ch 36B Food Handlers Training
- Ch 37 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 39 Games of Chance
- Ch 39A Garage Sales and Lawn Sales
- Ch 40 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 41 Graffiti
- Ch 43 Grease Traps
- Ch 44 (Reserved)
- Ch 45 Heliport
- Ch 46 Housing Authority
- Ch 46A (Reserved)
- Ch 47 Housing Code
- Ch 48 Insurance
- Ch 50 Land Subdivision and Site Plan Regulations
- Ch 51 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 51A Length of Service Award Program
- Ch 52 Library Property and Books
- Ch 53 Littering
- Ch 54 Loitering
- Ch 54A Marriage and Civil Union Ceremonies
- Ch 55 Massage and Bodywork Therapies
- Ch 56 Materials, Deposit and Removal of
- Ch 57 Merchants and Rutherford Business District Licenses
- Ch 59 (Reserved)
- Ch 60 Municipal Court
- Ch 61 Municipal Property and Grounds
- Ch 61A Municipal Property, Sale of
- Ch 62 Newsracks
- Ch 63 Noise Control
- Ch 63A Numbering of Buildings and Lots
- Ch 64 Nuisance Code
- Ch 64A Obscene Materials
- Ch 65 Outdoor Cafes
- Ch 66 Parking Area Lighting Regulations
- Ch 66A Parking Yards and Places
- Ch 66B (Reserved)
- Ch 67 Payment of Pensions to Dependents of Volunteer Fire Fighters
- Ch 68 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 69 Permanent Cosmetics Establishments
- Ch 70 Personnel Policies and Practices
- Ch 72 (Reserved)
- Ch 73 Playgrounds, Parks, Open Spaces and Recreation Areas
- Ch 74 Plumbing Code
- Ch 76 Police Department
- Ch 77 Poolrooms, Billiard Parlors and Bowling Alleys
- Ch 77A Precious Metals and Secondhand Goods
- Ch 78 Property Maintenance
- Ch 79 Public Amusement Structures
- Ch 80 (Reserved)
- Ch 81 Purchasing
- Ch 82 Purchasing, Cooperative
- Ch 82A Recycling
- Ch 82B Registration of Landscapers and Landscaping Services
- Ch 83 Recreation Department
- Ch 83A Rent Control
- Ch 84 (Reserved)
- Ch 87 Salary Schedules
- Ch 89 Sanitary Code
- Ch 91 Sanitary Sewers
- Ch 91A Service Stations and Motor Vehicle Repair Facilities
- Ch 92 Sewage Disposal Code
- Ch 93 Sewers: Disposal of Industrial Waste
- Ch 94 Sewers and Wastewater Disposal
- Ch 95 Shade Tree Commission
- Ch 96 Shopping Carts
- Ch 96A Short-Term Rental Property
- Ch 97 Signs
- Ch 97 Art I Political Signs
- § 97-1 Definitions.
- § 97-2 Posting on public property prohibited.
- § 97-3 Posting on private property restricted.
- § 97-4 Posting on utility structures prohibited.
- § 97-5 Posting regulations.
- § 97-6 Each sign to be separate offense.
- § 97-7 Violations and penalties; removal.
- § 97-8 When effective.
- Ch 98 Skateboards, Bicycles, Roller Skates and Scooters
- Ch 99 Smoke Control
- Ch 100 Snow Removal
- Ch 102 Soil Removal
- Ch 104 Solicitations for Charitable Purposes
- Ch 105 Solicitors, Peddlers and Canvassers
- Ch 105A (Reserved)
- Ch 106 Special Sale Regulations
- Ch 106A Sports Equipment Prohibition in Roadways
- Ch 107A Stormwater Management Control, State
- Ch 107B Stormwater Management, Borough
- Ch 107C Stormwater Management Control: Feeding of Wildlife
- Ch 107D Stormwater Management, Miscellaneous
- Ch 108 Streets and School Safety
- Ch 109 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 110 Street Closings
- Ch 111 Swimming Pools
- Ch 112 Taxes
- Ch 113 Taxicabs
- Ch 114 Telephone Booths
- Ch 116 Tent Caterpillar Control
- Ch 116A Tobacco Products
- Ch 117 Towing
- Ch 119 (Reserved)
- Ch 120 Trees and Shrubbery
- Ch 123 Unfit Dwellings
- Ch 124 Vacant and Abandoned Properties
- Ch 125 Vehicles, Abandoned or Junked
- Ch 126 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 127 Volunteer Organizations
- Ch 129 Water Pollution
- Ch 131 Zoning
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough of Rutherford Council as indicated
in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 9-5-1984 by Ord.
No. 2381-84]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
A sign which directs attention to an issue, issues, candidate or
candidates for public consideration in an election.
No political sign shall be erected, posted or placed on public property.
A.
No political sign shall be erected, posted or placed
on private property without the express consent of the owner, who shall then
be responsible for compliance with this article.
B.
No sign in excess of eight square feet shall be permitted
to be placed on grounds or yards, front, rear or side, facing any public street.
All such signs must be at least eight feet from the inner sidewalk line, and
if there is no sidewalk, 20 feet from the street line.
C.
No sign in excess of eight square feet shall be permitted
on any private building, except that each political candidate shall be entitled
to one sign on one private building designated as said candidate's campaign
headquarters.
Political signs posted on fire hydrants, public telephone booths, public
utility poles or similar public fixtures are expressly prohibited.
Signs may be posted for any national, state or local election no sooner
than 30 days prior to the date of the election and must be removed eight days
after the date of the election.
The erection, posting and placing of each individual sign shall constitute
a separate offense.
A.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this article
by permitting signs on his premises contrary to the above provisions shall
be subject to a fine not exceeding $100.
B.
Any political candidate who, directly or indirectly or
by his agent or representative, permits such violation for 72 hours after
notification to remove the same shall be subject to a fine not exceeding $150.
This article shall take effect immediately upon final passage and publication
as required by law.
