[Adopted 6-4-1947 as Ord. No. 69]
No person shall, within the limits of the Township
of Carneys Point, appear on any street, road, avenue, park or other
place in a state of nudity or make any indecent act or behave in a
lewd or indecent manner.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township,
bathe, swim or be found in a state of nudity in the waters in any
pond, stream or lake located therein.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township,
disrobe in any automobile, truck or vehicle while the same is upon
any parking place, street, road, avenue, park or other public place.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township,
sell or offer to sell any indecent or lewd picture, book or thing
or exhibit or perform any indecent, immoral or lewd play or other
representation.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township,
keep or maintain a gaming house, a house of ill fame or a disorderly
house or allow or permit, in any house, shop, store or other building
or on any premises owned or occupied by him or her, any faro table,
faro bank, roulette wheel or other device or game of chance for the
purpose of gaming or any cockpit or other place for the exhibition
of animals while engaged in fighting; and no person shall hold in
any house, shop, store or other building, or on any premises, or permit
to be held in any house, shop, store or other building, or on any
premises or any building owned or occupied by him or her, any dogfight,
cockfight or any sparring contest for a purse or prize money.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township,
operate or use any radio receiving set, phonograph or other sound-producing
instrument, device or apparatus in such manner that the sound thereof
shall annoy any person or persons or disturb the comfort, rest or
repose of any person or persons being in his, her or their place of
abode.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township,
make or continue to cause to be made or continue any unnecessary noise
which shall disturb the comfort, rest or repose of any person or persons
or annoy any person or persons being in his, her or their place of
abode.
No persons shall, within the limits of said
Township, discard, deposit, throw or leave any wastepaper, tin cans,
bottles, garbage, waste or refuse of any kind upon any parking place,
street, road, avenue, park or other public place or upon any lot or
other premises, except in receptacles or containers provided for such
purpose.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township,
throw or discard any tin cans, bottles, garbage or refuse or any kind
whatsoever into the waters of any pond, stream or lake or into water
adjacent thereto.
No person, shall, within the limits of said
Township, loiter on any street, road, avenue or other public place
or in or about any public building, and no person shall, on any street,
road, avenue or other public place within the limits of said Township,
utter any loud and offensive or indecent language or make offensive
remarks to or upon any person or persons passing along or being upon
any such street, road, avenue or other public place or obstruct or
interfere with any person or persons being upon any of the same.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township,
go about from door to door or place himself or herself in any street
or streets or other public places to beg or gather alms.
[Amended 5-20-1985 by Ord. No. 393]
No person shall, within the limits of said Township,
engage or participate in any practice, sport or exercise having a
tendency to annoy, disturb or frighten any person or persons on any
street, road, avenue, park or other public place.
[Added 12-26-1990 by Ord. No. 498]
No person shall cause rays to be cast from an
illuminating device on any structure located within the Township of
Carneys Point. This section shall not apply to the owner or occupant
of such structure. In addition, this section shall not apply to police,
fire or other emergency personnel when acting in the performance of
their duties.
[Added 12-26-1990 by Ord. No. 498]
No person shall cause rays from an illuminating
device to be cast on any lands within the Township of Carneys Point
where deer or other animals may reasonably be expected to be found
between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and dawn. This section shall not apply
to police, fire or other emergency personnel when acting in the performance
of their duties.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township,
willfully and maliciously ring or cause to be rung any bell or alarm
of any fire company and thereby give or cause to be given a false
alarm of fire.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township
or on any street, road, avenue, park or other public place, ring any
bell or blow any horn or make any public outcry at or for any public
sale, auction or venue or to advertise any goods, wares or merchandise
for sale or to attract any attention to or gain passengers for any
cab, taxicab hack or omnibus.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township,
maliciously destroy, damage or injure any property.[1]
[Amended 5-20-1985 by Ord. No. 393]
No person shall play, for money or other valuable
thing, at cards, at billiards, at pool tables or shuffleboard, at
faro bank or other bank of like kind, under any denomination whatever,
at dice or any other game with one or more die or dice or with any
other instrument or device in the nature of dice having one or more
figure or figures, number or roulette or other device or game of chance,
whether as banker, players, dealers or otherwise, for the purpose
of gaming.
No person shall play, for money or other thing,
with a slot machine or device in the nature of a slot machine or with
any other instrument, engine apparatus or device having one or more
figure or figures, number or numbers thereon; and no person shall
have or keep in his or her place of business or other premises any
such slot machine or device in the nature of a slot machine which
may be used for the purpose of playing for money or other valuable
thing.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township
and without lawful authority, carry any revolver, pistol or other
firearm or other instrument of the kind known as a blackjack, sling
shot, billy sandclub, sandbag, bludgeon, metal knuckles, dagger, dirk,
dangerous knife, stiletto, bomb or other high explosive concealed
in or about his or her clothes or person or in any automobile, carriage,
motorcycle or other vehicle.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township,
have upon his or her person any picklock, key, crown, jackbit or other
implement with an intent to break and enter into any building or have
upon his or her person any pistol, hanger, cutlass, bludgeon or other
offensive or dangerous weapon with intent to assault any person; and
no person shall hide or be found in or near any dwelling house, warehouse,
stable, barn, garage, schoolhouse or any place of public resort or
assemblage for business, worship, amusement or other lawful purposes,
with an intent to steal any goods or chattels.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township,
enter the building or go upon the lands of any public school and break,
injure or deface such building or any part thereof or the fences or
outhouses belonging to or connected with such building or lands, and
no person shall disturb the exercise of any public school or molest
or give annoyance to the children attending such school or annoy any
teacher therein.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township,
be intoxicated or drunk and disorderly in any street, highway, thoroughfare
or public place or in any private house or in any hotel, boardinghouse,
store, restaurant or other quasi-public place to the annoyance of
any person.
[Amended 5-20-1985 by Ord. No. 393]
No person shall unnecessarily obstruct any street,
alley or public place within the limits of the Township with any kind
of vehicle or vehicles or with box or boxes, lumber, wood or any other
thing.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township,
hinder or obstruct any Township officer in the performance of his
duties, nor shall any person willfully refuse to assist any Township
official who lawfully calls upon him to do so in the execution of
any process or in the suppression of any breach in the peace or disorderly
conduct or in case of an escape or when such officer is resisted in
the discharge of his duty; nor shall any person knowingly resist or
oppose any officer or person authorized by law in serving or attempting
to serve any writ, bill, order or process or when making any arrest,
whether with or without a warrant.
No person shall injure or mutilate at any time
or place any fire engine, hook-and-ladder truck, hose truck, hose
ladders, buckets or other fire apparatus belonging to the Fire Department
of the Township nor in any way interfere with the same, nor shall
any person drive a vehicle or vehicles over any hose or other fire
equipment during a fire.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township,
during an alarm of fire hinder, prevent or deter, by any device whatsoever,
any fireman or other person from rendering lawful assistance in abating
or quelling such fire or hinder or interfere with any fire man from
going to or returning from the place where the building or other property
is on fire or from which an alarm proceeds; nor shall any person hinder
or obstruct the passage of any fire engine, hook or ladder truck,
hose cart or any fire apparatus in going to or from the place from
which an alarm or fire proceeds to where any building or other property
may be burning.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original Section 27 of Ord.
No. 69, dealing with dogs running at large and which immediately followed
this section, was deleted 5-20-1985 by Ord. No. 393.
No person shall engage in, or attempt or offer
to engage in, or aid, abet or participate in any fight, assault, quarrel,
brawl, battery, altercation, disturbance, riot or unruly, boisterous,
noisy, unlawful or disorderly assemblage, nor shall any person in
any way breach or disturb the peace.
No person shall fire or discharge any pistol,
revolver, rifle, gun, air gun or fowling piece or any kind of firearm
or a cannon in, on, along or near any street, highway, sidewalk, footpath,
park or other public place within the limits of said Township, except
when expressly permitted by law.
[Amended 5-20-1985 by Ord. No. 393]
No person shall operate a motorcycle, motor
vehicle or other conveyance in, on or over any sidewalk, footpath
or pathway within the limits of said Township.
No person shall in any way injure, destroy,
break, mutilate, deface or tamper with any streetlight, pole or fixture,
or any part thereof, in any street, highway, park or other public
place within the limits of said Township.
No person shall paste, write, clip, paint, print,
nail, clamp or otherwise fasten, inscribe or affix any notice, placard
or advertisement against or upon any wall, gate, house, store, shop,
shed, fence, rock, stump, tree, shrub, bush, promontory building or
structure without the consent of the owner or occupant of the same,
except when done by a public officer in the performance of his duties.
No person shall paste, clip, paint, nail, clamp
or otherwise fasten, inscribe or affix any notice, placard or advertisement
upon any public building, sidewalk, fence, curbstone, wall, park or
other public property or place within the limits of said Township,
except with the permission of the Township Committee.
No person shall open, injure, destroy, deface,
mutilate, break or tamper with any fire hydrant in any public street
or public place within the limits of said Township, except members
of the Township Fire Department actually engaged in the performance
of their duties.
Other riotous conduct, indecent conduct, breaches
of the peace, vagrancy and prostitution not hereinbefore mentioned
are hereby prohibited within the limits of said Township.
The term "person" and the term "persons," as
used in this article, shall, wherever appropriate in connection with
the context, include "corporation" and "corporations," respectively.
All fines imposed and collected under and by
virtue of this article shall be paid into the treasury of said Township.
[Amended 5-20-1985 by Ord. No. 393]
Each and every person violating any of the provisions
of this article shall, upon conviction before the Township Judge authorized
to hear and determine the matter, be subject to a fine of not more
than $1,000 or imprisonment in the County jail for a period of not
more than 90 days, or both, in the jurisdiction of the Judge.
