[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough
of Raritan 11-23-1964 (Ch. 52 of the 1966 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall keep or maintain any gaming house, house of
ill fame or disorderly house or allow, suffer or permit any house,
shop, store or other building owned or occupied by him to be used
as a gaming house, house of ill fame or disorderly house or to be
frequented or resorted to by riotous or disorderly persons, prostitutes,
gamblers, vagrants or mendicants.
No person shall set upon, keep or maintain or allow, suffer
or permit to be set up, kept or maintained in any house, shop, store
or other buildings or on any premises owned or occupied by him any
faro table, faro bank, roulette wheel or other wheel or other device
or game of chance for the purpose of gaming or any cockpit or other
place for the exhibition of animals while engaged in fighting.
No person shall buy, sell or offer for sale what is commonly
known as a "pool," or any interest or share in any such pool, or make,
take or offer to take what is commonly known as a "book," upon the
running, pacing or trotting, either within or without this state,
of any horse, mare, gelding or other animal, or upon any game, racing
or contest, or conduct or engage in the practice commonly known as
"number writing" or "picking up numbers," or have in his possession
any ticket, slip or other evidence of an interest, share, bet or pledge
in any pool, lottery, racing contest or other game, or keep, maintain
or attend any place to which persons may resort for engaging in any
such acts or practices or for betting upon the event of any race,
game or contest, either within or without this state, or for gambling
in any form, and no person shall aid, abet, assist or participate
in any way in any such acts or practices.
No person shall play for money or other valuable thing at cards,
billiards, pool, bowls, shuffleboard, faro bank or other bank of like
kind under any denomination whatever, roulette or other wheel, at
dice or at any other game with one or more die or dice or with any
other instrument or device in the nature of dice, and no person shall
deal, place or engage in faro, roulette or other wheel or other device
or game of chance, whether as banker, player, dealer or otherwise,
for the purpose of gaming.
No person shall play for money or other valuable thing with
any slot machine or device in the nature of a slot machine or with
any other instrument, engine, apparatus or device, and no person shall
have or keep in his place of business or other premises any slot machine
or device in the nature of a slot machine or any other instrument,
engine, apparatus or device which may be used for the purpose of playing
for money or other valuable thing.
[Amended 8-17-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-12]
The following acts are hereby prohibited:
A.
No person shall disturb the peace and quiet of the Borough or of
any neighborhood, family or person within the Borough by loud or unnecessary
noise, or knowingly to permit such noise.
B.
Without in any way limiting the provisions of this section, the following
acts are specifically prohibited:
(1)
The playing of any radio, television, phonograph, musical instrument
or other machine or device for the production or reproducing of sound
in such a manner or with such intensity so as to annoy or disturb
the quiet, comfort or repose of persons in any dwelling or any other
type of residence unless permission for any of the foregoing has been
granted by the Borough Clerk.
[Amended 9-28-1971; 2-14-2006 by Ord. No. 06-01; 9-14-2010 by Ord. No. 10-10]
A.
For the purposes of this section, "public place" shall mean any place
to which the public has access, including but not limited to any street,
sidewalk, curb, alley, highway, bridge, park, school, place of worship,
public building, public grounds, parking lot, transportation facility,
open or vacant private property, or the doorways or entranceways to
any building which fronts on any of the aforesaid places or a bench,
chair, or seating area in or on any of the aforesaid places.
B.
No person shall sleep in any public place, nor shall any person use
any motor vehicle or trailer for sleeping or habitation purposes in
any public place.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original §§ 52-8, Refusing to obey order of police officer, and 52-9, Disorderly conduct, of the 1966 Code, which immediately followed this section, were repealed at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I), and original § 52-10, Public intoxication; improper dress, etc., of the 1966 Code was repealed 1-27-2009 by Ord. No. 08-14.
No person shall throw any stone, stick or other hard or offensive
substance or shoot any revolver, pistol, gun, air gun, slingshot or
other device at, into or upon any street or other public or quasi-public
place or into any cars, vehicle or private property not his own, which
may cause injury or damage to any person owning, using or being in
or upon the same.
No person shall give or cause to be given any false alarm of
fire.
No person shall make or cause to be made any bonfire between
sundown and sunrise without having first obtained a permit therefor
from the Chief of the Fire Department of the Borough of Raritan.
No person shall ride a bicycle upon any sidewalk in the Borough
of Raritan.
No person shall injure or damage any lights, wires, poles or
fixtures lawfully in or upon any street or other public place.
No person shall throw water, by the use of a hose or otherwise,
upon any sidewalk on Main Street, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and
6:00 p.m.
It shall be the duty of the police of the Borough of Raritan,
and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to enter upon any premises
wherein instruments or devices shall be used or employed in gaming
contrary to any of the provisions of this chapter and, except in the
case of ball alleys, bowling alleys and billiard tables, to carry
away and destroy such instruments or devices so employed or used in
gaming.
The word "person," as used in this chapter, shall be construed
to mean and include natural persons, firms, partnerships, corporations
and associations, and the masculine gender, as used herein, shall
be construed to mean and include the feminine and neuter genders.
[Amended 10-11-1994[1]]
Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall, upon
conviction thereof, be subject to a fine not to exceed $2,000, imprisonment
for a period not exceeding 90 days and/or a period of community service
not exceeding 90 days for each offense.
"An ordinance relating to the morals and peace and good order
of the Borough of Raritan," adopted August 18, 1909, as amended by
an ordinance adopted March 6, 1922, is hereby repealed, and all other
ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith are, insofar
as they are inconsistent herewith, also hereby repealed.
