[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Hillsborough as indicated in article histories.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 7-14-1931 (Ch. 116, Art. I, of the
1977 Code)]
No person shall keep or maintain or frequent
or visit a disorderly house or a house of ill fame, or allow or permit
any house, shop, store or other building owned or occupied by him
or her to be used as a disorderly house or house of ill fame or to
be frequented or resorted to by riotous or disorderly persons, prostitutes,
gamblers or vagrants.
No person shall set up, keep or maintain, or
permit to be set up, kept or maintained, in any house or premises
any faro table, faro bank, roulette wheel or other device or game
of chance for the purpose of gaming, or any boxing ring, cockpit or
other place for men or animals to fight; nor shall any person hold
or permit to be held in any house or premises, or frequent or visit
any house or premises in which is held, any dogfight, cockfight, prizefight
or any sparring contest for a purse or money prize.
No person shall deal, play or engage in faro,
roulette or other game of chance, either as banker, player, dealer
or otherwise, for the purpose of gaming.
No person shall go about from door to door nor
place himself or herself in the streets to beg or gather alms.
[Amended 8-10-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-14]
No person shall appear in any street or public
place in a state of nudity, or shall make any indecent exposure of
his or her person or be guilty of any lewd or indecent act or behavior,
or shall exhibit, sell or offer to sell any indecent or lewd book,
picture or thing, or shall exhibit or perform any indecent, immoral
or lewd play or other representation.
No person shall swim or bathe in any of the
waters of or bounding the Township, within 200 yards of any dwelling
house at any time.
No person shall park an automobile or other
conveyance on the public highways after sunset, except in front of
his or her dwelling house or place of business.
No person shall engage in any practice, sport
or exercise having a tendency to frighten horses or other animals
or to annoy persons passing in the streets or on the sidewalks.
No person shall ring any bell or bells or blow
any horn or make any public outcry at or for any public sale, auction
or vendue, or to attract any attention to or gain passengers for any
cab, hack or omnibus, in any public street or highway.
[Amended 12-27-1977 by Ord. No. 77-21; 9-12-1995 by Ord. No. 95-37]
[Adopted 8-10-1935 (Ch. 116, Art. II, of
the 1977 Code]
[Amended 11-25-1997 by Ord. No. 97-34]
The several acts, offenses and conducts set
forth in this section are hereby prohibited, and any person or persons
or corporations violating in any way or manner any of said provisions
shall be, upon conviction thereof, subject to the penalties hereinafter
provided:
A.
Having upon him or her any picklock, key, crow, jack,
bit or other implement with an intent to break and enter any building;
or having in possession any pistol, hanger, cutlass or any other offensive
or dangerous weapon with intent to assault any person; or being in
or near any dwelling house, warehouse, stable, barn or in any place
of public resort or assemblage for business, worship, amusement or
other lawful purposes, with intent to steal any goods or chattels.
B.
Addressing or making audible any offensive remarks
or comments, or giving any offensive sign or gesture, to or against
any person passing along the street or being in the public places
or public conveyances within said Township, or obstructing or interfering
with any person or persons lawfully in or upon said streets or public
places or public conveyances in said Township.
C.
Going from door to door in said Township begging or
to collect alms, or placing oneself in or upon any street, highway,
byway or passage within said Township to beg or collect alms.
D.
Carrying concealed upon his or her person any offensive
or dangerous weapon, except such persons as are duly authorized to
do so in said Township.
E.
Throwing or casting any stick, stone or pebble into
or in any street or public place or into or against any cars, vehicles,
houses or buildings; firing or discharging any pistol, gun or other
fowling piece or any kind of firearms in any public street, public
building or public place; injuring any of the streetlights, wires,
poles or fixtures lawfully in any street or public place; loitering,
congregating or gathering on a street or other public or private place
and refusing to disperse when lawfully requested to do so by any member
of the Township Committee or any peace officer or persons lawfully
appointed to make such request or demand, or at the request of the
owner or tenant of the property on which such congregating, gathering
or loitering occurs.
F.
Washing, bathing or swimming when nude or insufficiently
clothed in any lake, river, pond or brook within said Township, or
at any other time and place in said Township when the same is contrary
to the morals and public decency of the community wherein such acts
are undertaken.
[Amended 8-10-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-14]
G.
Exposing for sale at public vendue any merchandise
brought into said Township for the purpose of sale without the proper
license or permit as may now or hereafter be lawfully required by
the Township Committee for so selling or exposing for sale.
H.
Willfully and maliciously giving any false fire alarm
or other false alarm in any manner whatsoever in said Township, knowing
that the alarm so given was false.
I.
Erecting within the limits of any highway any signs,
barricades or encroachments of any nature without having proper permission
so to do; disturbing or removing any barricades lawfully placed at
the beginning or ending of any road construction work or road operation
conducted within the territory of said Township by proper authority.
J.
Violating in any manner the peace and quiet of Hillsborough
Township or any part thereof; or willfully or wrongfully trespassing
upon any property, public or private; or committing any nuisance within
the bounds of said Township, be the same a public or private nuisance;
or resisting arrest or the authority of any officer lawfully in discharge
of his duty.
[Amended 12-27-1977 by Ord. No. 77-21; 9-12-1995 by Ord. No. 95-37]
