Borough of Rutherford, NJ
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2023-12-11
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The Code
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Chapter 131 Zoning
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Article X Penalties
- The Code
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 Administrative Offices
- Ch 5 Administrative Code
- Ch 6 Alarm Equipment Installation
- Ch 7 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 8 Amusement Games
- Ch 10 Animals
- Ch 12 Bicycles
- Ch 14 (Reserved)
- Ch 15 (Reserved)
- Ch 16 Board of Health
- Ch 17 (Reserved)
- Ch 18 Building Code
- Ch 19 Builders and Contractors Licensing
- Ch 19A Cannabis
- Ch 20 Car Lots: New and Used
- Ch 20A Cat Licensing
- Ch 21 Clean Environment
- Ch 21A Commercial Property Maintenance
- Ch 22 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 22A Convenience Stores
- Ch 22B (Reserved)
- Ch 23 Curfew, Emergency
- Ch 24z (Reserved)
- Ch 25 Disability Act Advisory Committee
- Ch 26 Dogs, Pets, Animals and Kennels
- Ch 27 Donation Clothing Bins
- Ch 28 Dry Cleaning and Laundry Machines, Coin-Operated
- Ch 29 (Reserved)
- Ch 30 Elevators
- Ch 31 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 31A Finance Department
- Ch 32 Fingerprint Identification and Criminal History Record Checks
- Ch 33 Fire Department
- Ch 33A Firefighter Auxiliary Program, Junior
- Ch 34 Filming
- Ch 34A Fire Safety
- Ch 35 Fire Lanes or Zones
- Ch 36 Food and Beverage Vending Machines
- Ch 36A Food Establishments
- Ch 36B Food Handlers Training
- Ch 37 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 39 Games of Chance
- Ch 39A Garage Sales and Lawn Sales
- Ch 40 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 41 Graffiti
- Ch 43 Grease Traps
- Ch 44 (Reserved)
- Ch 45 Heliport
- Ch 46 Housing Authority
- Ch 46A (Reserved)
- Ch 47 Housing Code
- Ch 48 Insurance
- Ch 50 Land Subdivision and Site Plan Regulations
- Ch 51 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 51A Length of Service Award Program
- Ch 52 Library Property and Books
- Ch 53 Littering
- Ch 54 Loitering
- Ch 54A Marriage and Civil Union Ceremonies
- Ch 55 Massage and Bodywork Therapies
- Ch 56 Materials, Deposit and Removal of
- Ch 57 Merchants and Rutherford Business District Licenses
- Ch 59 (Reserved)
- Ch 60 Municipal Court
- Ch 61 Municipal Property and Grounds
- Ch 61A Municipal Property, Sale of
- Ch 62 Newsracks
- Ch 63 Noise Control
- Ch 63A Numbering of Buildings and Lots
- Ch 64 Nuisance Code
- Ch 64A Obscene Materials
- Ch 65 Outdoor Cafes
- Ch 66 Parking Area Lighting Regulations
- Ch 66A Parking Yards and Places
- Ch 66B (Reserved)
- Ch 67 Payment of Pensions to Dependents of Volunteer Fire Fighters
- Ch 68 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 69 Permanent Cosmetics Establishments
- Ch 70 Personnel Policies and Practices
- Ch 72 (Reserved)
- Ch 73 Playgrounds, Parks, Open Spaces and Recreation Areas
- Ch 74 Plumbing Code
- Ch 76 Police Department
- Ch 77 Poolrooms, Billiard Parlors and Bowling Alleys
- Ch 77A Precious Metals and Secondhand Goods
- Ch 78 Property Maintenance
- Ch 79 Public Amusement Structures
- Ch 80 (Reserved)
- Ch 81 Purchasing
- Ch 82 Purchasing, Cooperative
- Ch 82A Recycling
- Ch 82B Registration of Landscapers and Landscaping Services
- Ch 83 Recreation Department
- Ch 83A Rent Control
- Ch 84 (Reserved)
- Ch 87 Salary Schedules
- Ch 89 Sanitary Code
- Ch 91 Sanitary Sewers
- Ch 91A Service Stations and Motor Vehicle Repair Facilities
- Ch 92 Sewage Disposal Code
- Ch 93 Sewers: Disposal of Industrial Waste
- Ch 94 Sewers and Wastewater Disposal
- Ch 95 Shade Tree Commission
- Ch 96 Shopping Carts
- Ch 96A Short-Term Rental Property
- Ch 97 Signs
- Ch 98 Skateboards, Bicycles, Roller Skates and Scooters
- Ch 99 Smoke Control
- Ch 100 Snow Removal
- Ch 102 Soil Removal
- Ch 104 Solicitations for Charitable Purposes
- Ch 105 Solicitors, Peddlers and Canvassers
- Ch 105A (Reserved)
- Ch 106 Special Sale Regulations
- Ch 106A Sports Equipment Prohibition in Roadways
- Ch 107A Stormwater Management Control, State
- Ch 107B Stormwater Management, Borough
- Ch 107C Stormwater Management Control: Feeding of Wildlife
- Ch 107D Stormwater Management, Miscellaneous
- Ch 108 Streets and School Safety
- Ch 109 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 110 Street Closings
- Ch 111 Swimming Pools
- Ch 112 Taxes
- Ch 113 Taxicabs
- Ch 114 Telephone Booths
- Ch 116 Tent Caterpillar Control
- Ch 116A Tobacco Products
- Ch 117 Towing
- Ch 119 (Reserved)
- Ch 120 Trees and Shrubbery
- Ch 123 Unfit Dwellings
- Ch 124 Vacant and Abandoned Properties
- Ch 125 Vehicles, Abandoned or Junked
- Ch 126 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 127 Volunteer Organizations
- Ch 129 Water Pollution
- Ch 131 Zoning
- Ch 131 Art X Penalties
- § 131-53 Violations and penalties.
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
A.
Penalties for violation of § 131-6E.
(1)
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision of § 131-6E of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof in any court authorized by law to hear and determine the matter, be fined such sum not less than $500 nor more than $1,000, as such court in its discretion may impose, or, if the party so convicted is a natural person, such person may be imprisoned for such term not exceeding 90 days, as such court in its discretion may impose, or be fined such sum not less than $500 nor more than $1,000, as such court in its discretion may impose, or such natural person may be both imprisoned and fined not exceeding the maximum limits set forth herein, as such court in its discretion may impose.
(2)
Each day that such violation exists shall constitute
a separate offense.
B.
Penalties for violation of all other sections of this
chapter.
(1)
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate
any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof in any
court authorized by law to hear and determine the matter, be fined
such sum not exceeding $500, as such court in its discretion may impose,
or, if the party so convicted is a natural person, such person may
be imprisoned for such term not exceeding 90 days, as such court in
its discretion may impose, or be fined such sum not exceeding $500,
as such court in its discretion may impose, or such natural person
may be both imprisoned and fined not exceeding the maximum limits
set forth herein, as such court in its discretion may impose.
(2)
Each day that such violation exists shall constitute
a separate offense.
(3)
The owner of any building or structure, lot or land
or part thereof, and/or the tenant or occupant of any building or
structure, lot or land, or part thereof, where anything in violation
of this chapter shall be placed or shall exist or shall be suffered,
allowed or permitted to exist, and any architect, builder, developer,
contractor, agent, person or corporation engaged in connection therewith
and who assists in the commission of any such violation shall each
be guilty of a separate violation and, upon conviction thereof, shall
each be liable to the fine or imprisonment, or both, specified above.
C.
Action instituted by the borough. In case any building
or structure is erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, moved
or converted or any building, structure or land is used in violation
of or contrary to the provisions of this chapter, the borough may
institute an action to enjoin or any other appropriate action or proceeding
to prevent such erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration,
conversion or use.
