[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Council of the Township of Monroe 7-13-2004
by Ord. No. O-28-2004.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Alarm systems — See Ch. 87.
Alcoholic beverages — See Ch. 89.
Curfew — See Ch. 118.
Dogs and other animals — See Ch. 126.
Noise — See Ch. 213.
Peddling and soliciting — See Ch. 230.
Nuisances — See Ch. 295.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also provided for the repeal of
former Ch. 215 (originally adopted as Ch. 268, but renumbered to maintain
the alphabetical sequence of the Code), adopted 7-25-2000 by Ord. No. O-21-2000,
as amended.
The code established and adopted by this chapter is described and commonly
known as "Public Health Nuisances" of the Township of Monroe. It will include
the following public nuisances which are unlawful acts.
It shall be unlawful, and shall be a public nuisance, for any person:
A.
To make any indecent exposure or exhibition of any kind
in or upon any street, road, highway, place, alley or lane, public or private,
in the Township of Monroe;
B.
To expose to public view, within the aforesaid Township,
his or her genitals, pubic hair, buttocks, perineum, anal region or pubic
hair region;
C.
To engage, within the Township of Monroe, in any practice
having a tendency to annoy persons passing on the streets or sidewalks while
sitting or standing on porches or lawns or yards facing the streets or sidewalks,
by the making of indecent gestures or acts;
D.
To engage, within the aforesaid Township, in any practice
while passing on the streets or sidewalks, having a tendency to annoy persons
sitting or standing on porches or lawns or yards facing the streets or sidewalks,
by the making of indecent gestures or acts;
E.
To make any indecent exposure of his or her private parts
or engage in any lewd or indecent act or behavior;
F.
To urinate or defecate in public places or streets, or
on the lawns or yards of private homes and residences, or in the public view;
G.
To possess a radio, phonograph, tape or cassette player,
television, musical instrument, loudspeaker, or amplifier, or other machine
or device for the electronic or stereophonic production or reproduction of
sound that is operated on any public street, highway, building, sidewalk,
park, recreation area, thoroughfare, or other public place, and any vehicle
on a public street, highway or public space that disturbs the quiet enjoyment
of the Township;
H.
To bring, consume or possess an open container of alcoholic
beverage or wine in any public place within the Township other than those
public places covered by an alcoholic beverage consumption license issued
pursuant to Title 33 of the New Jersey Statutes or where consumption of malt
alcohol or wine is permitted by N.J.S.A. 2A:170-25.21;
I.
To set off or discharge any revolver, rifle, shotgun,
pistol, gun, cannon, weapon or firearm of any description using cartridges
or gunpowder for ammunition, provided that nothing contained herein shall
be construed to extend to any police officer in the line of duty. The provisions
of this subsection shall not apply to hunters and sportsmen and any activities
which involve the use of a firearm as permitted by state regulations and state
law;
[Amended 5-10-2005 by Ord. No. O-05-2005]
J.
To possess, discharge, set off, fire or light any roman
candle, carbide cannon, dynamite cap, rocket, firecracker or other fireworks
within the Township;
K.
To revel, quarrel, fight, brawl or otherwise engage in
any disorderly conduct so as to disturb the public peace and quiet;
L.
To beg or solicit food or monies within the Township;
M.
To disturb a 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. A disturbance within the scope
of this subsection is the making of unsolicited remarks of an offensive, disgusting
or insulting nature or which are calculated to annoy or disturb the person
to whom or in whose hearing they are made;
N.
To sleep in any parked vehicle in any location within
the Township;
O.
To interfere or annoy the comfort or general well-being
of the inhabitants of this Township;
P.
To make, cause, or suffer or permit to be made or caused
upon any premises owned, occupied or controlled by him or it, or upon any
public street, alley or thoroughfare in this municipality, any unnecessary
noises or sounds by means of the human voice, or by any other means or methods
which are physically annoying to persons, or which are so harsh, or so prolonged
or unnatural, or unusual in their use, time and place as to occasion physical
discomfort, or which are injurious to the lives, health, peace and comfort
of the inhabitants of this municipality; or
Q.
To create, cause or discharge any air pollution, fumes,
gas, emissions, foul odors and the like, which cause or threaten the health,
safety, welfare and property of any of the residents of the municipality.
Any person who commits a violation of this chapter shall be subject
to a fine of not less than $100 or no more than $1,000 and/or imprisonment
in the County Jail not to exceed a term of 90 days.
