[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Council
of the Township of Mount Holly 7-7-1980 as Sec. 3-2 of Ch. III of
the Revised General Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Impact of adult entertainment establishments — See Ch.
62, §
62-2.
False alarms — See Ch.
65.
Consumption of alcoholic beverages in public — See Ch.
68, Art.
I.
Nuisances caused by dogs and cats — See Ch.
106.
Parental responsibility — See Ch.
183.
Parks and recreation areas — See Ch.
187.
Sale of obscene material — See Ch.
205.
No person shall keep or harbor any dog which
shall disturb the neighborhood by excessive barking, whining or howling.
No person shall place or cause to be placed
any obstruction of any kind whatsoever in any stream, pond, spring,
creek, drainage course or lake so as to interfere with the natural
flow or change the course thereof in any manner whatsoever without
first obtaining the necessary permit so to do.
No person shall throw or cause to be thrown
or placed any paper or posters, stones, sticks, glass, metal or any
hard, dangerous or offensive substance upon any sidewalk, street or
public or private place or at any car, vehicle, house, building, fence
or person.
No person shall appear on any street, park or
other public place in a state of nudity or make any indecent exposure
of his person or commit or do any lewd or indecent act or behave in
a lewd or indecent manner.
No person shall disrobe in any automobile, truck
or vehicle while the same is upon any parking place, street, park
or other public place.
No person shall sell or offer to sell any indecent
picture, book or thing or exhibit or perform any indecent, immoral
or lewd play or other representation.
No person shall keep or maintain a disorderly
house or a house of ill-fame or allow or permit any house, shop, store
or other building or structure owned or occupied by him to be used
as a disorderly house or house of ill-fame.
No person shall solicit, invite or in any manner
suggest by word of mouth or any writing or other communication or
by any device whatsoever any lewd, lascivious or other immoral act.
No person shall permit any house, shop, store
or other building or structure owned or occupied by him to be frequented
or resorted to by noisy, riotous or disorderly persons or by prostitutes,
gamblers or vagrants.
No person shall maliciously or intentionally
destroy, damage or injure any property, public or private.
No person shall carry, without lawful authority,
any air gun, revolver, pistol or other firearm or other instrument
of the kind known as a blackjack, slingshot, blowgun or similar device,
billy sand club, sandbag, bludgeon, metal knuckles, dagger, dirk,
dangerous knife, stiletto, bomb or other high explosive concealed
in or about his clothes or person or in any portable vehicle, carriage,
motorcycle or other vehicle.
No person shall have upon his person or in his
possession any picklock, key, crow, jack, bit or other implement with
any intent to break and enter into any building.
No person shall enter any building or any public
or private lands without lawful authority or break, injure or deface
such building or any part thereof or the fences, outhouses or other
property belonging to or connected with such building or lands.
No person shall hinder or obstruct any Township
officer or employee or the officer or employee of any agency, department,
board, commission, authority or other instrumentality of this Township
in the performance of his duties or willfully refuse or neglect to
assist such officer or employee when lawfully called upon by him so
to do in the execution of any process or in the suppression of any
breach of the peace or disorderly conduct or in case of escape or
when such officer or employee is resisted in the discharge of his
duty, or resist or oppose any officer or person authorized by law
in serving or attempting to serve any writ, bill, order or process
or when making any arrest.
No person shall hinder, prevent or deter in
any manner or by any device whatever any fireman or other person from
rendering lawful assistance in abating or quelling a fire, or hinder
or interfere with any fireman going to or returning from any fire
or place from which a fire alarm proceeds, or hinder or obstruct any
fire engine, hook and ladder truck, hose cart or other fire apparatus
going to or from any place which a fire alarm proceeds or where any
building or property may be burning.
No person shall hinder, obstruct, prevent or
deter in any manner or by any device whatever any ambulance or emergency
squad member or other person from rendering lawful assistance at any
accident, disaster or other emergency or any ambulance or emergency
squad equipment while going to or from or attending at an accident,
disaster or other emergency.
No person shall willfully and maliciously ring
or sound or cause to be rung or sounded any bell, siren or other alarm
of any fire, ambulance or emergency company or squad and thereby or
by any other means, give or cause to be given a false alarm of fire
or emergency.
No person shall leave or threaten to leave his
minor child, children or other lawful dependent to be maintained by
the Township or to become chargeable thereto.
No person shall pretend to use or have any skill
in physiognomy, palmistry or like crafty science or pretend to tell
destinies or fortunes for pay or other reward.
No person shall remove, interfere with or disturb
any lantern, warning signal, obstruction or barricade lawfully placed
in or across any public street or alley by the public authority, its
contractors, agents, servants or employees.
[Amended 6-22-1992 by Ord. No. 1992-5]
All other riotous, indecent or disorderly conduct,
breach of the peace and vagrancy not hereinabove specifically mentioned
including those contained in Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes,
are hereby prohibited.
It shall be unlawful for any persons to gather
together in any public or private place to plan or threaten or participate
by act, speech or by their conduct to invite any riot, disturbance
of the peace or the creation of disorderly conduct. In addition to
the penalties hereinafter provided, the Township Council or other
lawfully delegated authority may, in anticipation of or for the prevention
or cessation of any riot, disturbance of the peace or disorderly conduct,
close any street or other public or private property or place.
No person shall permit or cause to be exuded
or emitted from any chimney, funnel or otherwise into the air any
volume of sparks, cinders, smoke, gasses, heavy odors or steam, whereby
the same does or may adversely affect health or property, nor any
vile, offensive, obnoxious or nauseating odor.
[Added 6-22-1992 by Ord. No. 1992-5]
Any person in violation of this chapter shall,
upon conviction, be punishable by fine not to exceed $1,000 or imprisonment
for a term of not more than 90 days, or both.