Township of Toms River, NJ
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2023-09-27
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Part I: Administrative Code
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 217 Buildings for Public Assemblages, Temporary
- Part I: Administrative Code
- Organization
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 (Reserved)
- Ch 5 Township Council
- Ch 9 (Reserved)
- Ch 10 Office of the Mayor
- Ch 11 (Reserved)
- Ch 12 (Reserved)
- Ch 14 Office of the Municipal Clerk
- Ch 15 (Reserved)
- Ch 18 (Reserved)
- Ch 19 Office of the Tax Assessor
- Ch 21 (Reserved)
- Ch 23 Administrative Organization
- Ch 25 (Reserved)
- Ch 28 (Reserved)
- Ch 31 (Reserved)
- Ch 34 (Reserved)
- Ch 37 (Reserved)
- Ch 40 Department of Administration
- Ch 42 (Reserved)
- Ch 44 Department of Finance
- Ch 46 Department of Human Services
- Ch 47 (Reserved)
- Ch 48 Department of Community Development
- Ch 49 Department of Law
- Ch 50 Department of Law Enforcement
- Ch 52 (Reserved)
- Ch 54 Department of Public Works
- Ch 56 Department of Recreation
- Ch 60 Municipal Court
- Ch 62 Office of Municipal Public Defender
- Ch 63 (Reserved)
- Ch 64 Office of Municipal Prosecutor
- Ch 66 Office of Emergency Management
- Ch 68 Division of Community Service
- Ch 70 (Reserved)
- Ch 71 Statutory Boards and Commissions
- Ch 75 (Reserved)
- Ch 76 Advisory Committees
- Miscellaneous
- Ch 80 Claims Approval
- Ch 83 (Reserved)
- Ch 84 Contracts, Public
- Ch 86 Cooperative Pricing Agreements
- Ch 88 Criminal History Record Checks and Physical Examinations
- Ch 91 (Reserved)
- Ch 94 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 95 Open Space Trust Fund
- Ch 99 (Reserved)
- Ch 102 (Reserved)
- Ch 104 Employee Regulations and Benefits
- Ch 105 (Reserved)
- Ch 108 Payroll Account System
- Ch 109 Fire Companies
- Ch 114 Fire Districts
- Ch 118 (Reserved)
- Ch 120 Hazardous Materials Management
- Ch 121 Hotels and Motels
- Ch 123 Business, Rental Property and Multifamily Property Insurance Registration
- Ch 124 (Reserved)
- Ch 125 Mutual Aid Agreements
- Ch 128 (Reserved)
- Ch 129 Official Map
- Ch 131 (Reserved)
- Ch 132 Public Records, Inspection and Copying
- Ch 141 Retirement
- Ch 146 (Reserved)
- Ch 147 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 150 Tax Map
- Ch 152 Volunteer Incentives
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 158 Adopt-A-Highway Program
- Ch 159 Alarm Licensing and Operations
- Ch 160 Advertising
- Ch 162 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 165 Animals and Animal Establishments
- Ch 170 Auctions and Auctioneering
- Ch 175 Bathing Beaches, Swim Clubs and Swimming Pools, Municipal
- Ch 182 Beaches, Cleaning of
- Ch 185 (Reserved)
- Ch 189 Beach Protection
- Ch 192 Beach Shelters and Tents
- Ch 198 Boat Docks and Bulkheads, Public
- Ch 201 Boat Facility and Bulkhead Construction
- Ch 205 Bridge Area Restrictions
- Ch 210 (Reserved)
- Ch 213 Building Material, Lumber and Plumbing Supply Yards, Secondhand
- Ch 217 Buildings for Public Assemblages, Temporary
- § 217-1 Examination and approval of structures required.
- § 217-2 Distance restriction.
- § 217-3 Written approvals required.
- § 217-4 Fireproof tents.
- § 217-5 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 221 Buildings, Moving of
- Ch 224 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 228 Buildings, Unfit and Unsafe
- Ch 232 Burning, Outdoor
- Ch 234 Cannabis
- Ch 238 Carnivals, Circuses and Traveling Shows
- Ch 245 Condominiums
- Ch 252 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 253 Continued Use and Occupancy of Residential Dwellings
- Ch 264 Driveway Accesses and Curbs for Commercial Properties
- Ch 269 Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 273 Dwellings, Design and Appearance of
- Ch 277 Electrical Standards
- Ch 280 (Reserved)
- Ch 287 Fees
- Ch 291 Fences, Plantings and Walls
- Ch 294 Fertilizer
- Ch 295 Filming
- Ch 297 Fire Hydrants and Equipment
- Ch 300 Fire Insurance Claims
- Ch 303 (Reserved)
- Ch 308 Fire Prevention and Protection
- Ch 310 Emergency Medical Services
- Ch 313 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 316 Food Stands and Restaurants, Outdoor
- Ch 321 Games of Chance and Amusement Games
- Ch 325 Golf Courses
- Ch 327 Graffiti
- Ch 330 Hazardous and Toxic Materials
- Ch 335 Housing and Rental Property Standards
- Ch 338 Hunting
- Ch 340 Invasive Plants
- Ch 344 Junkyards and Salvage Yards
- Ch 348 Land Use and Development Regulations
- Ch 354 Laser Pointers
- Ch 356 Littering
- Ch 357 Massage Parlors
- Ch 363 Mobile Home Parks
- Ch 368 Nuisances
- Ch 378 Parking Lots at Recreation Areas
- Ch 383 Parks, Municipal
- Ch 388 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 391 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 396 (Reserved)
- Ch 399 (Reserved)
- Ch 408 Realty Improvements: Water and Sewage Facilities
- Ch 413 Sales, Special
- Ch 415 Precious Metals and Secondhand Goods
- Ch 417 Septic Tanks, Cesspools and Privy Vaults
- Ch 421 Sewers
- Ch 427 Signs
- Ch 430 Skateboards, Sporting Activities and Hobbyists
- Ch 433 Smoking
- Ch 438 (Reserved)
- Ch 440 Special Improvement District
- Ch 442 Solid Waste
- Ch 447 Street Acceptance Procedure
- Ch 448 Street Vacation Procedures
- Ch 450 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 457 Taxicabs and Taxicab Drivers
- Ch 462 Tobacco Products, Sale of
- Ch 465 (Reserved)
- Ch 468 Towing
- Ch 469 Traffic Control Signal Monitoring System
- Ch 471 Trees
- Ch 473 Property Registration Program
- Ch 477 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 481 Vehicles, Inoperative
- Ch 485 Vehicles, Sale or Storage on Vacant Land
- Ch 488 Vehicles, Snowmobiles and All-Terrain
- Ch 492 Vehicles, Unlicensed Motor-Driven
- Ch 495 Water Connections
- Ch 497 (Reserved)
- Ch 501 Waterway Control
- Part III: Board of Health
- Ch 512 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 516 Animals
- Ch 520 Communicable Diseases
- Ch 524 Dumping
- Ch 531 Food and Beverage Vending Machines
- Ch 534 Food-Handling Establishments, Retail
- Ch 537 Food, Sale of
- Ch 542 Health Nuisances
- Ch 551 Officers and Employees
- Ch 555 Personnel Policies
- Ch 558 Plumbing Standards
- Ch 561 Privies, Outdoor
- Ch 566 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 569 Sanitary Facility Certification Fees
- Ch 572 Sewerage Connections
- Ch 575 Slaughtering and Slaughterhouses
- Ch 579 Swimming Pools, Public
- Ch 585 Vital Statistics Certificate Information
- Ch 589 Water Supplies
- Appendix
- Ch A598 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A602 Names of Major Arteries, Streets and Highways
- Ch A605 Open Video Franchise
- Ch A608 Record of Result of 2006 Election
- Ch A610 Street Name Changes
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Township Council of the
Township of Toms River 12-9-2008 by Ord. No. 4168-08.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Beach shelters and tents — See Ch. 192.
Unfit buildings — See Ch. 228.
Carnivals, circuses and traveling shows — See Ch. 238.
Uniform construction codes — See Ch. 252.
Fire prevention and protection — See Ch. 308.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance repealed former Ch. 217, Buildings
for Public Assemblages, Temporary, adopted 11-27-1973 by Ord. No.
1378 as Ch. 65 of the 1973 Code.
Any tent, temporary grandstand, temporary building or temporary
structure of any nature or kind erected in this Township for the temporary
assemblage, grouping or gathering of people shall be examined and
approved as to safety from fire hazards and safety in construction
and erection before people are permitted to assemble or gather in
or at the same, by the Chief of the Fire Department of this municipality,
or Chief of the fire company in the area in which the tent, temporary
grandstand, temporary building or temporary structure is erected or
to be erected, as well as by the Construction Official of this municipality.
No tent, temporary grandstand, temporary building or temporary
structure shall be constructed, erected or maintained on any ground
in this Township where there is any flammable material within 100
feet of same.
No person shall erect, maintain or use any tent, temporary grandstand, temporary building or temporary structure for the purposes referred to in § 217-1 hereof without first getting written approvals of the Chief of the Fire Department or Chief of the fire company, and the Construction Official, which written approvals shall be kept on the premises while the premises are used for said purposes, and said permits shall be exhibited upon request to any police officer, fire company official, fireman or municipal official checking upon any of said matters in his official capacity and in the performance of his duties.
No person shall use or permit to be used any tent other than
a fireproof tent for the gathering or assembling of people in this
municipality.
Any person convicted of a violation of any of the provisions
of this chapter shall be subject to a penalty of a fine of not exceeding
$400 or imprisonment in the common jail of the County of Ocean for
a term of not exceeding 30 days, or both, at the discretion of the
Municipal Court before whom said conviction is had.
