City of Hackensack, NJ
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2023-12-19
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 119 Peace and Good Order
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Article VII Public Urination and Defecation
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Administrative Offices
- Ch 3A Hackensack Municipal Alliance
- Ch 3B Stigma Free Advisory Board
- Ch 4 Board of Education
- Ch 5 Chief Financial Officer
- Ch 6 Building, Housing and Land Use Department
- Ch 7 Access to All Advisory Board
- Ch 9 Charges Against City Employees
- Ch 11 Civil Service
- Ch 12 Communications Department
- Ch 13 Claims Approval
- Ch 13A Condominium, Cooperative and Multi-Unit Rental Buildings Advisory Board
- Ch 14 Court
- Ch 14A Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 15 Economic Development Commission
- Ch 17 Employment
- Ch 17A Environmental Commission and Green Team
- Ch 18 (Reserved)
- Ch 19 Fire Department
- Ch 23 Health Department
- Ch 24 Housing Authority
- Ch 24A Information Technology Department
- Ch 25 Insurance Fund
- Ch 26 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 27 Local Assistance Board
- Ch 28 Parking System, Public
- Ch 30 (Reserved)
- Ch 32 Police Department
- Ch 34 Public Works, Department of
- Ch 35 Records, Public
- Ch 36 Recreation, Department of
- Ch 36A Cultural Arts, Department of
- Ch 37 Rules of Order
- Ch 38 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 40 Seal
- Ch 41 Senior Citizen Advisory Board
- Ch 42 Shade Tree Advisory Committee
- Ch 43 Veterans' Advisory Board
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 44 Abandoned and Nuisance Properties
- Ch 45 Advertising Materials
- Ch 45A Affordable Housing
- Ch 46 Air Pollution Control
- Ch 47 Alarm Devices
- Ch 49 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 51 Amusement Machines, Automatic
- Ch 52 Animals
- Ch 54 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 56 Automobile Driving Schools
- Ch 58 Automobile Sales, Used
- Ch 60 Barbershops, Beauty Parlors and Nail Salons
- Ch 63 Bicycles, Roller Skates, Skateboards and Sleds
- Ch 64 Bingo and Raffles
- Ch 66 Boarding and Rooming Houses; Nursing Homes
- Ch 67 Body Piercing, Ear Piercing, Permanent Cosmetics and Tattooing
- Ch 68 Brush, Weeds and Debris
- Ch 69 Cannabis Businesses
- Ch 70 (Reserved)
- Ch 72 Checks, Fraudulent and Returned
- Ch 74 Child-Care Facilities
- Ch 75 Community Garden
- Ch 76 Drug and Drunk-Driving-Free Zones
- Ch 78 Dry-Cleaning Establishments and Laundries
- Ch 81 (Reserved)
- Ch 84 Exterminators; Fumigation; Vermin Control
- Ch 86 Firearms, Weapons and Explosives
- Ch 88 Fire Prevention
- Ch 89 Flood Hazard Areas
- Ch 90 Food and Drink
- Ch 93 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 94 Gardeners, Landscapers, Horticulturists, and Snow Removal Business
- Ch 95 Graffiti
- Ch 96 Guarantees and Bonds
- Ch 97 Health and Sanitation
- Ch 98 Heating and Hot Water
- Ch 99 Hotels and Motels
- Ch 100 Housing and Property Maintenance
- Ch 101 Insurance
- Ch 102 Jewelry, Secondhand
- Ch 104 Junkyards and Storage Yards
- Ch 106 Library
- Ch 107 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 108 Limousine Services
- Ch 109 Littering
- Ch 110 Mechanical Code
- Ch 111 Massage Establishments
- Ch 112 Noise
- Ch 114 Nuisances
- Ch 115 Numbering of Buildings
- Ch 116 Outdoor Cafes
- Ch 117 Parks
- Ch 119 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 119 Art VII Public Urination and Defecation
- § 119-21 Purpose.
- § 119-22 Definitions.
- § 119-23 Prohibited acts; exceptions.
- § 119-24 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 121 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 123 (Reserved)
- Ch 125 Poolrooms
- Ch 127 Private Property, Parking on
- Ch 129 Public Bathing Places
- Ch 132 Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
- Ch 133 Relocation of Displaced Tenants
- Ch 134 Rent Stabilization
- Ch 138 Sales, Special
- Ch 140 Sewage Disposal Systems, Individual
- Ch 141 Sewers
- Ch 143 Shopping Carts
- Ch 145 Smoke Emission
- Ch 146 Soil Removal
- Ch 147 Special Improvement District
- Ch 148 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 150 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 152 (Reserved)
- Ch 153 Taxation
- Ch 155 Taxicabs
- Ch 158 Tourist Lodges and Camps
- Ch 159 Towers and Wreckers
- Ch 159A Traffic Control Signal Monitoring System
- Ch 160 Trailers and Trailer Camps
- Ch 162 Trees
- Ch 165 Truck and Bus Terminals
- Ch 166 Uniform Construction Code Enforcement
- Ch 168 Vehicles and Property, Abandoned
- Ch 170 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 173 Waterfront Cleanup Program
- Ch 175 Zoning
- Ch 176 Newsracks
- Appendix
- Ch A180 Building Lines
- Ch A181 Franchises
- Ch A182 9-1-1 Telephone System
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 11-9-2020 by Ord. No. 46-2020]
Public urination and/or defecation is found to be a public nuisance
and detrimental to the health, safety, and welfare of the City and
its inhabitants. It is the intent of this article to protect and preserve
the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of Hackensack by prohibiting
urination and/or defecation by any person in any public place as defined
herein, anywhere within the City.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
To excrete waste from the body from a person's bowels.
A recognized disability, unrelated to the ingestion of alcohol,
illegal substances, or substances not prescribed to the particular
person ingesting them, which renders a person unable to exercise control
over his or her bodily functions of urination and/or defecation.
Any street, highway, thoroughfare, right-of-way, alley, parking
lot, driveway, sidewalk, boulevard, park, pier, bridge, or other place,
whether public or private, which is open to the public. As used in
this article, "public place" does not include a place specifically
designated for use as a urinal or a toilet such as, but not limited
to, a restroom or portable toilet.
To pass or discharge urine excreted by the kidneys from the
body.
It is unlawful for any person:
A.
To urinate
in any public place that has not been designated for use as a urinal
or toilet.
B.
To defecate
in any public place that has not been designated for use as a toilet.
C.
To urinate
or defecate outdoors on private property, if visible from a public
place.
D.
To urinate
or defecate outdoors on private property, even if not visible from
a public place, without the express permission of the owner.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall be subject to the penalties established in § 1-15 of the Code of the City of Hackensack.
