Township of Howell, NJ
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2023-06-27
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 195 Loitering
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 2 Administration of Government
- Ch 5 Advisory Committees
- Ch 7 Traffic
- Ch 8 Affordable Housing
- Ch 10 Cooperative Pricing Agreement
- Ch 13 Emergency Service Benefits
- Ch 16 Employment Relations
- Ch 18 Ethics and Conduct, Code of
- Ch 19 Federal Law Violation and Cannabis Prohibition
- Ch 21 Length of Service Awards Program
- Ch 25 Nepotism Policy
- Ch 29 Personnel Policies
- Ch 33 Referendums
- Ch 35 Sewerage Authorities
- Ch 42 Stream Naming Map
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 49 Abandoned Properties
- Ch 50 Alarm Systems
- Ch 53 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 57 Animals
- Ch 59 All-Terrain Vehicles
- Ch 61 Automobile Auctions
- Ch 65 Bicycles
- Ch 68 Billiard Halls
- Ch 70 Boarding Homes for Children
- Ch 77 Buildings, Moving of
- Ch 80 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 83 Buildings, Unsafe
- Ch 86 Burning, Open
- Ch 89 Business Regulations
- Ch 93 Charitable Clothing Bins
- Ch 95 Chlorine Leak Detection
- Ch 101 Coin-Operated Amusement Devices
- Ch 104 Commercial and Industrial Maintenance Code
- Ch 108 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 111 Construction Sites
- Ch 115 Criminal History Background Checks
- Ch 118 Curfew
- Ch 124 Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 127 Dumpsters and Refuse Containers
- Ch 131 Emergency Management
- Ch 134 Engineering Approvals and Permits
- Ch 136 Excessive Consumption of Municipal Services
- Ch 139 Fees
- Ch 141 Fertilizer
- Ch 143 Fire Hydrants
- Ch 146 Fire Insurance Claims
- Ch 150 Fire Prevention
- Ch 154 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 157 Fowl, Disposal of
- Ch 160 Games of Chance
- Ch 164 Genetically Engineered Microorganisms
- Ch 168 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 172 Home Buyers' Protection
- Ch 175 Hotels and Motels
- Ch 178 Housing Code; Rental Property
- Ch 179 Hunting
- Ch 180 Invasive Plants
- Ch 182 (Reserved)
- Ch 185 Junk Dealers
- Ch 188 Land Use
- Ch 192 Littering
- Ch 195 Loitering
- § 195-1 Definitions.
- § 195-2 Certain types of loitering prohibited.
- § 195-3 Order by police officer.
- § 195-4 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 197 Massage Establishments
- Ch 198 Minibikes
- Ch 201 Minors; Body Art Facilities
- Ch 204 Mobile Home Parks
- Ch 208 Noise
- Ch 211 Nuisances
- Ch 216 Parking
- Ch 220 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 223 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 226 (Reserved)
- Ch 230 Private Used Car Sales
- Ch 232 Property Maintenance
- Ch 233 Public Park and Playground Facility Use Policy
- Ch 235 Rapid Entry Systems
- Ch 237 Real/Vacant Property Registration
- Ch 238 Recycling and Source Separating
- Ch 241 Retail Food-Handling Establishments
- Ch 244 Right to Farm
- Ch 245 Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 247 (Reserved)
- Ch 252 Sewer and Water
- Ch 256 Signs
- Ch 260 Skateboard Park
- Ch 265 Snow and Ice
- Ch 269 Soil Removal/Filling
- Ch 273 Solid Waste
- Ch 275 Stormwater Management
- Ch 277 Streets and Sidewalks and Right-Of-Way Excavations
- Ch 281 Swimming Pools, Nonresidential
- Ch 284 Swine
- Ch 292 Taxes
- Ch 295 Autocabs/Limousines and Taxicabs
- Ch 299 (Reserved)
- Ch 302 Tobacco and Smoking
- Ch 306 Towing
- Ch 307 Trailers and Portable Storage Containers
- Ch 311 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 315 (Reserved)
- Ch 320 Water Use Restrictions
- Ch 325 Wetlands Management
- Ch 329 (Reserved)
- Appendix
- Ch A335 Cable Television Franchise
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township of Howell
by Ord. No. O-94-20 (§ 3-30 of the 1974 Code). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated herein:
Remaining idle in essentially one location and shall include
the concepts of spending time idly loafing, to be dilatory, to linger,
to stay, to saunter, to delay, to stand around and shall include the
colloquial expression "hanging around."
All streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys or other public
ways and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds and buildings.
It shall include the front or immediate area of any store, shop, restaurant,
grounds, areas, parks or other public recreational areas. It shall
also include the front or immediate area of any store, shop, restaurant,
grounds, areas, parks or other public recreational areas.
It shall be unlawful for any person to loiter
in a public place in such a manner as to:
A.
Cause or create an immediate, actual physical violent
reaction from any person, which violent reaction will cause a threat
to the peace and order of the public.
B.
Create or cause to be created any disturbance or annoyance
to the comfort and repose of any person of ordinary sensibilities
so as to cause such person to react immediately in such a way as to
threaten by physical violence the peace and order of the public.
C.
Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles.
D.
Obstruct, molest, or interfere with any person lawfully in any public place as defined in § 195-3 above. This subsection shall include the making of unsolicited remarks of an offensive, disgusting or insulting nature or which are calculated to annoy or disturb a person of ordinary sensibilities so as to cause such a person to react immediately in such a way as to threaten by physical violence the peace and order of the public.
Whenever any police officer shall, in the exercise of reasonable judgment, decide that the presence of any person in any public place is causing or is likely to cause any of the conditions enumerated in § 195-2 above, said officer, if said officer deems it necessary for the preservation of the public peace and safety, order that person to leave that place. Any person who shall refuse to leave after being ordered to do so by a police officer shall be guilty of a violation of this chapter.
