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Editor's Note: Former § 191-1, Intoxication, was repealed 8-11-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-17.
[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.]
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 disrobe in any automobile, truck or vehicle while the same is upon any parking place, street, park or other public place.
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.