[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners
of the Borough of Longport as indicated in article histories. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 8-3-1966]
[Amended 9-17-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-14]
No person shall vagrantly loiter, lounge or
sleep in or on the streets, sidewalks, boardwalk, public pavilions,
public parks, beaches or other public places in the Borough of Longport,
or obstruct the passage of persons on any boardwalk, sidewalk, street
or other public places with boxes, crates, baskets, stands, wares,
merchandise or with a rolling chair or chairs or any vehicle; and
no persons shall utter loud, offensive, indecent or profane language,
nor address nor make audible and offensive remarks or comments upon
or to any persons passing along or being on or in any of such streets,
sidewalks, boardwalks, public pavilions, public parks, beaches or
other public places, or on or in property, public or private, nor
obstruct or interfere with any person or persons lawfully being on
or upon any streets, sidewalks, boardwalks, public pavilions, public
parks, beaches or other public places, nor while in or upon any highway,
sidewalk, boardwalk, public park, beach or other public place accost
or annoy any person or persons upon such place by begging or soliciting
alms or by soliciting him or them to hire vehicles, engage boarding
or hotel accommodations, purchase tickets of admission to visit or
view amusements, shows or exhibitions; and no person shall revel,
quarrel, brawl or otherwise misbehave in a disorderly manner to the
disturbance or annoyance of the peaceable inhabitants of the Borough
of Longport, nor be guilty of any other disorderly conduct in or on
the streets, sidewalks, boardwalks, public pavilions, public parks,
beaches or other public places.
[Amended 5-4-1983; 12-20-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-31]
A violation of any of the provisions of this
article shall constitute a breach of the peace and shall, upon conviction
thereof, be subject to a fine not to exceed $1,000 or a jail term
in the county jail not to exceed six months, or both, at the discretion
of the sentencing Judge, and each day that the violation under this
article shall continue shall be deemed a separate violation under
this article.
[Adopted 6-20-1962]
Any person who shall willfully or maliciously
break, injure or otherwise destroy or damage any of the posts, wires,
towers or other materials or fixtures employed in the construction
or use of any line of a television coaxial cable or a microwave radio
system or a community antenna television system, or willfully or maliciously
interfere with such structure so erected, or in any way attempt to
lead from its uses or make use of the electrical signal or any portion
thereof properly belonging to or in use or in readiness to be made
use of for the purpose of using said electrical signal from any television
coaxial cable company or microwave system or a community antenna television
system or owner of such property, shall be a disorderly person.
[Amended 5-4-1983]
Any person violating any of the provisions of
this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a fine
of not more than $500 or by imprisonment for not more than 90 days,
or both.
