It shall be unlawful for any person to commit, maintain or allow
pollutant(s) or existence of a condition or conditions which cause
or threaten to cause pollutant(s) to enter any waters, soil or air
in this municipality in such manner as to cause or threaten to cause
injury to any of the inhabitants of this municipality either in health
or property, and therefore such actions shall be declared a nuisance.
It shall be unlawful for any person to create, maintain or allow
any existence or presence of any water or other liquid in which mosquito
larvae can breed or exist on any property in the Township; such actions
shall be declared a nuisance and detrimental to public health.
It shall be unlawful for any person to commit, maintain or allow
the existence or presence of any accumulation of garbage, refuse,
manure, or animal or vegetable matter which may attract flies and
to which flies may have access, or in which fly larvae or pupae breed
or exist; such actions shall be declared a nuisance and detrimental
to public health.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit, accumulate,
or maintain any matter or thing which serves as food for insects,
rodents and/or wildlife and to which they may have access or which
serves or constitutes a breeding place or harborage for insects, rodents
and/or wildlife in or on any land, premises, building or other place;
such actions shall be declared a nuisance and detrimental to public
health.
[Amended 8-15-2023 by Ord. No. 23-035]
All beekeepers within the Township of Hamilton shall follow
all regulations pursuant to N.J.S.A. 4:6-24 and as amended. Any beekeeper
and/or colony and or swarm of insects of the Hymenoptera order in
violation of said regulations shall be declared a nuisance.
No person shall abandon or permit the abandonment on public
or private property within the Township, or on any public street,
of any motor vehicles owned by them or under their control or in their
possession at the time of the abandonment, or cause any abandoned
vehicles or vehicles in a state of substantial disrepair to be stored
in the open, provided that motor vehicles in a temporary state of
disrepair shall be allowed to remain for a period not exceeding 10
days, provided that the same are not abandoned vehicles as defined
in this section. The abandoning of a vehicle per this chapter shall
be declared a nuisance.
It shall be unlawful for any person to feed, in any public park
or on any other property owned or operated by the Township, any wildlife,
excluding confined wildlife (for example, wildlife confined in zoos,
parks or rehabilitation centers, or unconfined wildlife at environmental
education centers). The feeding of wildlife on property owned by the
Township shall be declared a nuisance.
No person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge of any dog,
cat or other animal shall cause, suffer or allow such dog, cat or
other animal to soil, defile, defecate on or commit any nuisance on
any common thoroughfare, sidewalk, passageway, bypath, play area or
park, or any other place where people congregate or walk, or upon
any public property whatsoever, or upon any private property without
the permission of the owner of the property.
It shall be unlawful for any person to participate in or allow
the disinterment or removal of animal remains buried in land used
or intended to be used for the burial of the remains of pet animals
and dedicated for such purpose; such actions shall be declared a nuisance
and detrimental to public health.
[Added 8-15-2023 by Ord. No. 23-035
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, suffer, allow or permit
the operation of any source of sound outdoors within 100 feet of the
residential property line from the hours of 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.
on a weekday and 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. on the weekend.
B. Excluding emergency work, the following standards shall apply to
the activities or sources of sound set forth below. Any violation
of said standards shall be deemed a violation by the police:
(1) Power tools, home maintenance tools, landscaping and/or yard maintenance
equipment used by a residential property owner or tenant shall not
be operated between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. All motorized
equipment used in these activities shall be operated with a muffler
and/or sound reduction device.
(2) Power tools, landscaping and/or yard maintenance equipment used by
nonresidential operators (e.g., commercial operators, public employees)
shall not be operated on a residential, commercial, industrial or
public (e.g., golf course, parks, athletic fields) property between
the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. on weekdays, or between the hours
of 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. on weekends or federal holidays. All motorized
equipment used in these activities shall be operated with a muffler
and/or sound reduction device.
(3) All construction and demolition activity shall not be performed between
the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. on weekdays, or between the hours
of 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. on weekends and federal holidays. All motorized
equipment used in construction and demolition activity shall be operated
with a muffler and/or sound reduction device.
(4) Self-contained, portable, nonvehicular music or sound production
devices shall not be operated on a public space or public right-of-way
in such a manner as to be plainly audible at a distance of 100 feet
in any direction from the operator between the hours of 8:00 a.m.
and 10:00 p.m. Between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m., sound
from such equipment operated on a public space or public right-of-way
shall not be plainly audible at a distance of 100 feet in any direction
from the operator.
(5) It shall be unlawful for any property owner or tenant to allow any
domesticated or caged animal to create a sound across a real property
line which unreasonably disturbs or interferes with the peace, comfort,
and repose of any resident, or to refuse or intentionally fail to
cease the unreasonable noise when ordered to do so by Police. Prima
facie evidence of a violation of this section shall include but not
be limited to:
(a)
Vocalizing (howling, yelping, barking, squawking, etc.) for
five minutes without interruption, defined as an average of four or
more vocalizations per minute in that period; or
(b)
Vocalizing for 20 minutes intermittently, defined as an average
of two vocalizations or more per minute in that period.
(c)
It is an affirmative defense under this subsection that the
dog or other animal was intentionally provoked to bark or make any
other noise.
C. It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, suffer, allow or permit
the operation of any source of sound outdoors such as from a sound
producing device habitually and/or persistently that is plainly audible
from a distance of 300 feet of the residential property line of the
originating sound.
The provisions of this chapter shall be enforced by the Division
of Health, Police or other enforcing officials within the Township.
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be subject to the penalties in Chapter
1, General Provisions, §
1-2, Violations; penalties, of the Township Code, per violation.