No person or persons shall loiter or assemble
in or upon any street or public place or in or about any building
in such a manner as to obstruct passage through such street or access
to such building or utter any loud, indecent, abusive or offensive
language in any street or public place or address or make any offensive
remarks or comments to or upon any person or persons in any street
or public place or building; and no person or persons shall, in any
house, building or grounds belonging thereto, by any offensive or
disorderly act or language disturb or endanger the public peace or
health.
No person or persons without visible means of
support shall beg or ask alms, provisions, clothing, money or material
assistance of any kind.
No person or persons shall allow or permit his,
her or their house, shop, saloon or other place connected therewith
to be used, frequented or resorted to by riotous or disorderly persons,
drunkards, prostitutes, gamblers, vagrants or common mendicants or
suffer or permit his, her or their house, shop, store, saloon or other
place as aforesaid to become riotous or disorderly at any time, either
by day or night.
No person or persons shall keep any gaming house
or house of ill fame or assignation of any description or keep any
disorderly house or any house or place of public resort by which the
peace, comfort or decency of a neighborhood is disturbed or shall,
as agent or owner, let a building or any portion of a building knowing
that it is intended to be used for any of the purposes specified in
this section or shall as agent or owner permit any building or any
portion of a building to be so used.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons
to destroy, injure, deface or tarnish any public building or any property
of the Borough or any fence, tree, electric light, pole or light or
any useful or ornamental public work or improvement in said Borough
or any grass plot enclosed or unenclosed or by lounging or otherwise
trespassing upon the same.
[Amended 2-18-2003 by Ord. No. 1218]
Any person violating the provisions of this
chapter shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $500 or imprisonment
in the County Jail of Bergen County for a term not exceeding 90 days,
or both, and the officer before whom any person offending may be brought
is hereby authorized and empowered, on conviction, to impose any fine
in his discretion not exceeding the amount of $500 or to imprison
for any term not exceeding 90 days, or both, in his discretion.