[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners
of the Township of Long Beach 7-2-1976 by Ord. No. 76-10C. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
No person shall trespass, including but not
limited to entering, occupying, using or being upon any portion of
the Brigantine National Wildlife Refuge which is located within the
territorial jurisdiction of Long Beach Township, except as may specifically
be authorized by the rules and regulations promulgated by the United
States Fish and Wildlife Service.
No person shall take any animal or plant on
any portion of that section of the Brigantine National Wildlife refuge
lying within the territorial jurisdiction of the Township of Long
Beach.
Traveling or use of any motorized or other vehicle
is prohibited in the Brigantine National Wildlife Refuge except below
the mean high-water line of the Atlantic Ocean, Beach Haven Inlet
and Little Egg Harbor Bay. Use of motorized vehicles in the permitted
area shall be under the following regulations:
A.
All such vehicles shall have an appropriate permit
issued by the Township of Long Beach pursuant to the ordinances of
this municipality.
C.
Driving a vehicle carelessly, or without due caution
and circumspection, in a manner so as to endanger or be likely to
endanger a person, property or wildlife is prohibited.
D.
Vehicle speed limits shall not exceed 25 miles per
hour.
E.
Motor vehicles shall not be operated at any time from
sunset or sunrise without working headlights and taillights which
comply with the regulations for operation on the roads of the State
of New Jersey as prescribed by the laws of the State of New Jersey.
F.
Persons entering and leaving the wildlife area in
vehicles shall drive only on designated accessways, and any trespass
on adjoining private property shall be prohibited.
Carrying, possessing or discharge of firearms,
fireworks or explosives on the portion of Brigantine National Wildlife
Refuge situate within the territorial jurisdiction of the Township
of Long Beach is forbidden.
The use or possession of crossbows, bows and
arrows, air guns, spears, gigs or other weapons on the portion of
Brigantine National Wildlife Refuge lying within the Township of Long
Beach is forbidden, except that spears, gigs or other paraphernalia
suitable for spear fishing as permitted by the laws of the State of
New Jersey shall be permitted below the mean high-water line of the
Atlantic Ocean, Beach Haven Inlet and Little Egg Harbor Bay.
Disturbing, injuring, spearing, poisoning, destroying,
collecting or attempting to disturb, injure, spear, poison, destroy
or collect any plant or animal on that portion of Brigantine National
Wildlife Refuge lying within the Township of Long Beach is forbidden.
The destruction, injury, defacement, disturbance
or the unauthorized removal of any public property, including natural
objects, signs, fences, beach protection devices or any private property
from that portion of Brigantine National Wildlife Refuge lying within
the boundary of Long Beach Township is forbidden.
Entering or remaining in that portion of Brigantine
National Wildlife Refuge lying within the Township of Long Beach when
under the influence of alcohol is forbidden.
The possession of any alcoholic beverage or
any controlled dangerous substance as defined under the New Jersey
Controlled Dangerous Substance Act[1] on that portion of Brigantine National Wildlife Refuge
lying within the territorial jurisdiction of the Township of Long
Beach is forbidden.
[1]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 24:21-1 et seq.
Any act of indecency or disorderly conduct as
defined by the laws of the State of New Jersey is forbidden on that
portion of Brigantine National Wildlife Refuge lying within the Township
of Long Beach.
It shall be unlawful to disturb, molest or interfere
with any employee of the United States or any employee of Long Beach
Township, Ocean County or the State of New Jersey engaged in official
business or with any private person engaged in the pursuit of an authorized
activity on that portion of Brigantine National Wildlife Refuge in
that section of the refuge lying within the territorial jurisdiction
of Long Beach Township.
Abandoning, disregarding or otherwise leaving
any personal property or littering, disposing or dumping in any manner
of garbage, refuse, earth, rocks or other debris, trash or waste of
any kind, nature or description on that portion of the Brigantine
National Wildlife Refuge lying within the Township of Long Beach is
prohibited.
Setting on fire or causing to be set on fire
any timber, brush, grass or other inflammable material, including
camp or cooking fires, is forbidden. Throwing a burning cigarette,
match or other lighted substance or discarding a burning cigarette,
match or other lighted substance away without seeing that it is first
thoroughly extinguished, in that portion of the Brigantine National
Wildlife Refuge lying within the Township of Long Beach, is forbidden.
Sleeping or camping on that portion of the Brigantine
National Wildlife Refuge lying within the Township of Long Beach,
between sunset and sunrise, local time prevailing, is forbidden.
