[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Hillsborough 2-22-1972 by Ord. No. 72-1 (Ch. 108
of the 1977 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Alcoholic beverages — See Ch. 113.
Curfew — See Ch. 149.
Drug-free zones — See Ch. 153.
Children's safety zones — See Ch. 154.
Markets — See Ch. 203.
Noise — See Ch. 211.
Parks and recreation areas — See Ch. 221.
Peace and good order — See Ch. 224.
Peddlers, solicitors and itinerant vendors — See Ch. 227.
Streets and sidewalks — See Ch. 259.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Remaining idle in essentially one location, and includes
the concepts of spending time idly, loafing or walking about aimlessly
and also includes the colloquial expression "hanging around."
Includes any adult persons having care or custody of a minor,
whether by reason of blood relationship, the order of any court or
otherwise.
Any place to which the public has access, and includes any
street, highway, road, alley or sidewalk. It shall also include the
front or neighborhood of any store, shop, restaurant, tavern or other
place of business, and public grounds, areas and parks, as well as
parking lots or other vacant private property or not owned by or under
the control of the person charged with violating this chapter, or,
in the case of a minor, not owned by or under the control of his parent
or guardian.
[Amended 11-25-1997 by Ord. No. 97-34]
A.
No person shall loiter in a public place in such manner
as to:
(1)
Create or cause to be created a danger of a breach
of the peace.
(2)
Create or cause to be created any disturbance or annoyance
to the comfort and repose of any person.
(3)
Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles.
(4)
Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully in any public place as defined in § 200-1. This subsection shall include 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.
B.
No person shall:
(1)
Loiter or assemble on the streets, at the corner of
streets or in any public place or public conveyance within the Township
while being under the influence of intoxicating liquors or indulge
in or utter loud and offensive or indecent language at any of the
aforesaid places, corner or corners, street or streets, public places
or public conveyances within the Township.
(2)
Loiter or disturb the peace in any public place, in
any quasi-public place or in or upon any private property not his
or her own within said Township while under the influence of intoxicating
liquor, or not being under such influence, indulging in and uttering
loud and offensive or indecent language at any of said place or places;
or being noisy or disorderly; disturbing or interrupting the quiet
and good order in any public library, school, reading room or any
other public or private place in said Township.
C.
A person
who is intoxicated may be assisted to his or her residence or to an
intoxication treatment or other facility by a Township police officer
consistent with the requirements contained in N.J.S.A. 26:2B-16, a
portion of the New Jersey Alcoholism Treatment and Rehabilitation
Act, and shall not be charged with a violation of the Code of the
Township of Hillsborough.
[Added 12-22-2009 by Ord.
No. 2009-45]
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 § 200-2, he may, if he 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 chapter.
No parent or guardian of a minor under the age
of 18 years shall knowingly permit that minor to loiter in violation
of this chapter.
Whenever any minor under the age of 18 years
is charged with a violation of this chapter, his parent or guardian
shall be notified of this fact by the Chief of Police or any other
person designated by him to give such notice.
If at any time within 30 days following the giving of notice as provided in § 200-5 the minor to whom such notice relates again violates this chapter, it shall be presumed in the absence of evidence to the contrary that the minor did so with the knowledge and permission of his parent or guardian.
