[Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of South River 9-1-1971
by Ord. No. 1971-10 (Ch. 83 of the 1977 Code). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
When there exists in the Borough of South River a state of disaster
or emergency brought about by natural causes or by the action of any person
or persons, and such state of disaster or emergency causes or may cause violence
and injury to be inflicted upon people in the Borough of South River and causes
or may cause damages and destruction to property in the Borough of South River,
both public and private, all being against the health, safety and welfare
of the people of the Borough of South River, then and in that event the Mayor
of the Borough shall have the authority to declare that a state of disaster
or emergency exists and he shall have the authority and be empowered to do
the following:
A.
Issue orders or proclamations regulating the hours during
which persons shall be prohibited from remaining upon the public streets,
ways and places in the Borough of South River.
B.
Issue orders or proclamations regulating the hours during
which vehicular traffic shall be prohibited or restricted from traveling over
the streets in the Borough of South River.
C.
Issue orders or proclamations regulating the hours during
which all businesses licensed by the Borough of South River to dispense in
any way alcoholic beverages shall be closed to business.
D.
Issue orders or proclamations regulating the hours during
which all sales of gasoline by gasoline service stations in the Borough of
South River shall be prohibited.
The Mayor of the Borough, upon declaring that a state of disaster or
emergency exists in the Borough of South River, shall forthwith advise any
newspaper and radio station located within the Borough of South River and
request that the announced state of disaster or emergency be published at
once.
The judgment of the Mayor of the Borough that a state of disaster or
Emergency exists within the Borough of South River and that it has caused
or is likely to cause injury and damage to persons and property within the
Borough of South River shall be final and absolute. This authority is conferred
upon the Mayor of the Borough by virtue of the authority of N.J.S.A. 40:87-31.
After the Mayor of the Borough has declared that a state of disaster
or Emergency exists in the Borough of South River and has issued an order
or proclamation regulating the movements of persons or vehicles in or about
the Borough of South River or the dispensing by licensed persons of alcoholic
beverages therein or the sale of gasoline by gasoline service stations in
the Borough of South River, it shall be unlawful and a violation of this chapter
for any person to be upon the streets, ways or places in the Borough of South
River, to drive vehicles over the streets in the Borough of South River, to
dispense alcoholic beverages or to sell gasoline at any gasoline service station
during the hours prohibited by said order or proclamation, unless otherwise
permitted by the Borough of South River.
