The singular number, when used herein, includes
the plural, unless otherwise expressed. The masculine gender, when
used herein, includes the feminine gender. As used in this article,
the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
PERSON
A corporation, firm or individual, unless another meaning
is herein clearly expressed.
The following acts are prohibited:
A. No person shall, by any word or act or otherwise,
intentionally participate in or aid, abet or assist in a disorderly
assemblage.
B. No person shall solicit from house to house or in
any public street, park or public place the gift of money, clothing
or other thing for his own use.
C. No person shall conduct, take part in or aid or abet
in a cockfight, dogfight or any unlawful prizefight or boxing contest.
D. No person shall shoot or hunt for any game nor discharge
or use any firearm or gun, Flobert rifle, bean shooter, slingshot,
slug, air rifle, BB gun, crossbow or bow and arrow on any street or
public place.
E. No person shall drive a motor vehicle or any other
vehicle over any hose or fire apparatus equipment.
F. No person shall park a vehicle closer than 200 feet
to the scene of a fire while the Fire Department is in charge of extinguishing
a fire.
G. No person shall permit himself to be closer than 100
feet to the scene of a fire which the Fire Department is in charge
of extinguishing unless such person is a regular member of the Fire
Department, a public official or a person having some personal interest
in the premises or property affected by the fire.
H. No person, other than a public official in the performance
of his official duties, shall post, paint or fasten any notice or
advertisement upon any private wall, building, gate, fence or signboard
or upon any rocks or structures without the consent of the owners
thereof.
I. No person shall post, paint or fasten any notice,
sign, placard, poster, billboard, bill or advertisement upon any curbstone,
sidewalk, retaining wall, pole, tree or elsewhere in a public street
or public place except for such traffic signs as may be otherwise
authorized or required by law or ordinance.
[Amended 7-13-1993 by Ord. No. 1651]
J. No person shall break, injure or destroy any of the
street lamps, bulbs or lights or the brackets or poles to which the
same are attached.
K. No person shall permit any horse, cow, sheep, goat
or other animals or chickens, geese, ducks or other fowl to run at
large in a public street or place, except dogs under observation and
control, as defined in an ordinance concerning dogs.
L. No person, other than a public official or a member
of the Fire Department in the performance of his duties, shall open
any fire hydrant in any public street or public place without first
having obtained permission, in writing, from the Chief of the Fire
Department and upon such terms as the Council shall, by resolution,
direct.
M. No person shall use any portion of the street or sidewalk
space for display of goods, wares or merchandise without first having
obtained from the Chief of Police a permit therefor, in writing, upon
such terms or conditions as the Council may, by resolution, direct.
O. Obscene material.
(1) No person who operates a store, newsstand, booth,
concession or similar business with unimpeded access for persons under
18 years of age or who is in the business of making sales of periodicals
or other publications at retail containing pictures, drawings or photographs
shall display or permit to be displayed at his business premises any
obscene material at a height of less than five feet or without a blinder
or other covering placed or printed on the front of the material displayed.
The public display of the obscene material shall constitute presumptive
evidence that the retailer knowingly made or permitted this display.
(2) For the purpose of this section, "obscene material"
means any description, narrative account, display or depiction of
sexual activity or anatomical area contained in or consisting of a
picture or other representation, publication, sound recording, live
performance or film which, by means of posing, composition, format
or animated sensual details:
(a)
Depicts or describes, in a patently offensive
way, ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated,
masturbation, excretory functions or lewd exhibition of the genitals;
(b)
Lacks serious literary, artistic, political
or scientific value, when taken as a whole; and
(c)
Is a part of a work which, to the average person
applying contemporary community standards, has a dominant theme, when
taken as a whole, which appeals to the prurient interest.
P. No person directly or indirectly acting as agent or
otherwise shall sell, give or furnish to a minor under the age of
18 years any cigarettes made of tobacco or any other substance which
can be smoked, any cigarette paper, or any tobacco in any form, including
but not limited to smokeless tobacco.
[Added 5-14-1996 by Ord. No. 1749]
Q. No person who is the parent, legal guardian or other
person acting in place of a parent or legal guardian or person who
is responsible for the care and welfare of a minor under the age of
18 years shall allow that minor to possess any cigarettes made of
tobacco or of any other substance which can be smoked, any cigarette
paper or tobacco in any form, including but not limited to smokeless
tobacco.
[Added 5-14-1996 by Ord. No. 1749]
R. No persons shall operate any lawn mower, mulcher,
chipper, blower, vacuum, hedge trimmer, chain or other type of saw,
tractor, snowblower, cultivator, edger, or any other such lawn, gardening
or yard equipment which is powered by an internal combustion engine
that is not equipped with a muffler system in good working condition
and having at least the same effectiveness in noise abatement as the
manufacturer's original equipment.
[Added 11-12-1996 by Ord. No. 1770]
S. No person shall operate, no person shall allow any
premises to be operated as, and no person shall knowingly be in the
employ of a massage parlor or massage business except such establishment
operated by a physician, osteopath, chiropractor or certified physical
therapist licensed by the State of New Jersey; provided, however,
that nothing herein contained shall prevent the massage of a patient
at the residence of that patient by a duly licensed physician, osteopath,
chiropractor or certified physical therapist or at a regularly established
medical center, hospital or sanatorium under the supervision of a
licensed physician, osteopath, chiropractor or certified physical
therapist or at his, her or their professional office.
[Added 4-28-1998 by Ord. No. 1816; amended 12-29-1998 by Ord. No.
1842]
T. No person, firm or corporation after 30 days from the adoption of this prohibition shall have or permit upon any premises open to the public any vending machine or any such other device for the sale of any tobacco product described in Subsection
P.
[Added 4-28-1998 by Ord. No. 1816]