[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Council of the Township of Jefferson 12-7-1942
by Ord. No. 29 (Ch. 30 of the 1967 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Alcoholic beverages — See Ch.
142.
Bicycles, skates, skateboards and scooters — See Ch.
154.
Drug-free areas — See Ch.
211.
Games of chance — See Ch.
279.
Public health nuisances — See Ch.
326.
Outdoor gatherings — See Ch.
342.
Smoking; sale of tobacco products — See Ch.
403.
Any person or persons who shall go about from door to door, or place
themselves in streets, highways or passages, to beg or solicit alms or charity,
or who shall wander from place to place and beg or solicit charity under the
pretense of being or having been soldiers, marines or seafaring men or under
the pretense of loss by fire or other casualty or by war or other pretense
or thing, or who shall wander from place to place and lodge in taverns, inns,
beer houses, houses of entertainment, market houses, outhouses, barns or other
places, or in the open air, and not give a good account of themselves, and
all persons who shall leave or threaten to leave their families to be maintained
by the Township or to become chargeable thereto, shall be deemed and adjudged
to be disorderly persons.
[Added 4-2-1973 by Ord. No. 7-73]
Any person who knowingly and willfully gives false information or who
originates, issues or causes false information to be given to any law enforcement
officer or law enforcement agency with respect to the commission of any offense
or their investigation of an alleged offense is guilty as a disorderly person.
Any person or persons who, being under the influence of intoxicating
liquor, shall loiter, lounge or sleep in any of the streets, roads, highways
or public places in the Township of Jefferson shall be deemed and adjudged
to be a disorderly person.
Any person or persons who shall loiter, lounge or sleep, or who shall
indulge in and utter loud and offensive or indecent language in any public
or quasi-public place in the Township of Jefferson shall be deemed and adjudged
to be a disorderly person.
Any person or persons who shall by word, act, sign or any device invite
or solicit unlawful sexual intercourse, or any other unlawful indecent, lewd
or lascivious act, shall be deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
Any person or persons who shall willfully disturb any public school,
religious or other public meeting either by making a noise or by rude behavior
or language shall be deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
Any person or persons who shall enter the building or go upon the lands
belonging to the Board of Education of the Township of Jefferson, or used
and occupied for school purposes, and shall break, injure or deface such building
or any part thereof, or the fences or outhouses belonging to or connected
with such building or lands, or shall disturb the exercises of the school,
or molest or give annoyance to the children attending such school, or any
teacher therein, shall be deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
Any person or persons who shall in any place in the Township of Jefferson
make, aid or assist in making any improper noises, riot, disturbance or breach
of the peace or shall behave in disorderly manner or make use of obscene or
profane language, or who shall indecently expose his or her person and all
persons who shall collect in bodies or crowds for idle or unlawful purposes
shall be deemed and adjudged to be disorderly persons.
Any person or persons who shall break, injure or deface any of the buildings
or other property of the Township of Jefferson shall be deemed and adjudged
to be a disorderly person.
Any person or persons who shall obtain food, lodging or other accommodation
or service at a hotel, inn, boarding- or eating house, culinary establishment
or hospital with intent to defraud the owner or keeper thereof shall be deemed
and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
Any person or persons who shall overdrive, overload, drive when overloaded,
overwork, torture, torment, deprive of necessary sustenance or cruelly beat
or otherwise abuse, or needlessly mutilate or kill any living animal shall
be deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
Any person or persons who shall trespass on any land or property within
this Township after being forbidden so to trespass by the owner, occupant,
lessee or licensee thereof, or after public notice on the part of the owner,
occupant, lessee or licensee forbidding such trespassing shall have been conspicuously
posted, shall be deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
Any person or persons who shall go into or upon any cemetery within
the Township of Jefferson with the intent to do damage therein or to commit
a breach of the peace or who, being apprehended therein, shall not or cannot
give a good account of himself shall be deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly
person.
Any person or persons who shall operate a motorboat, iceboat, sailboat,
ice sled or other boat or vehicle in or upon any stream, canal, pond or lake
in the Township of Jefferson in such a manner and at such a speed as to endanger
the lives or properties of other persons shall be deemed and adjudged to be
a disorderly person.
Any person who shall permit his horses, cattle, sheep, swine, goats
or poultry, or the horses, cattle, sheep, swine, goats or poultry of others
committed to his custody, to trespass on any land or property in this Township
after having been forbidden so to do by the owner, occupant, lessee or licensee
thereof shall be deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
[Amended 9-21-1970 by Ord. No. 273; 6-14-2006
by Ord. No. 16-06]
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter shall
be subject to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or imprisonment in the county jail
for a term not exceeding 90 days, or both, in the discretion of the Municipal
Court Judge before whom such conviction shall be had.