As used in this section:
As used herein shall mean any two or more persons gathered
together and acting in a boisterous, noisy, riotous, offensive, disorderly
or threatening manner toward each other or others, or committing any
act or acts which any way breach or disturb the peace or tend to breach
or disturb the peace.
As used herein shall mean any building or structure or any
part thereof which is used for gambling or which is frequented by
prostitutes, criminals, gamblers, vagrants or persons violating the
law or in which the law is habitually violated.
As used herein shall mean any building or structure or any
part thereof in which prostitution, lewdness or other unlawful sexual
acts are permitted. (Ord. #296)
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Editor's Note: Former Subsection 3-5.2, Intoxication;
Disturbing the Peace, adopted by Ord. #296, was repealed 8-12-2008
by Ord. #2030, § 1.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall utter loud and offensive or
profane or indecent language in any public street or other public
place, public conveyance or place to which the public is invited.
No person in any place, public or private shall:
a.
Address or make any offensive remarks to or concerning
any passing person; or
b.
Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully
therein.
c.
Upon telephoning another, address to such person any
lewd, lascivious, indecent or disgusting remarks.
d.
Repeatedly telephone another for the purpose of annoying
or molesting that person.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall, by noisy or disorderly conduct,
disturb or interfere with the quiet or good order of any place of
assembly, public or private, including schools, churches, libraries
and reading rooms nor shall any person interfere with the privacy
and repose of the persons therein.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall interfere with, hinder, disturb
or obstruct the proceedings, functions or deliberations of any official
of the Township, nor shall any person molest, obstruct, hinder, or
interfere with any Township officer or official engaged in the performance
of his duty as set out by statute or ordinance, or knowingly resist
or oppose any person authorized by law to make arrests or to serve
any writ, bill, order or process when the person so authorized is
acting in the performance of his duty.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall write or cause to be written
any lewd, indecent or obscene word or words, mark or marks whatsoever,
or draw or cause to be drawn any lewd, indecent or obscene figure
upon any house, building, wall, fence or other place in the Township.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall practice prostitution, nor shall
any person, by word, act, sign or any device, invite or solicit unlawful
sexual intercourse or any other unlawful, indecent, lewd or lascivious
act.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall maintain or cause or knowingly
permit to be maintained a disorderly house or house of ill fame in
any building or structure, or on any premises owned, occupied or controlled
by him or her; nor shall any person knowingly permit any building
or other structure or any premises owned or occupied or controlled
by him or her to be frequented or used by noisy, riotous or disorderly
persons, or by prostitutes, gamblers or vagrants.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall sell or offer to sell any lewd
or indecent picture, book, device, or thing, or exhibit or perform
or cause to be exhibited or performed, any lewd, immoral or indecent
dance, show, play or other presentation. The forbidden conditions
shall be held to have occurred when the actions or material, when
taken as a whole and judged by prevailing community standards, would
appeal solely to the prurient interest.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall intentionally appear on any
street, avenue, road, highway or other public place in a state of
nudity, or make any indecent exposure of his or her person, or commit
or cause to be committed, or participate in the commission or any
lewd or indecent act of behavior.
"Lewd and indecent" for the purpose of this
section shall mean actions by a person or material which when taken
as a whole and judged by the standards of the community at large would
appeal solely to the prurient interest.
[Ord. #296]
a.
No person shall commit an assault or an assault and
battery.
b.
No persons, two or more in number, shall fight together,
or commit or attempt to commit assaults and batteries upon each other,
in public, nor be present aiding, assisting or abetting the same.
c.
No person shall engage in any fight, assault, quarrel,
brawl, battery, or altercation; nor shall any person participate in
or incite by overt act or acts any disturbance or riot, or any unruly,
boisterous, noisy, unlawful or disorderly assemblage constituting
a breach or disturbance of the peace. Such breach or disturbance shall
be held to occur when the substantive conduct endangers the public
health, safety, or welfare.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall destroy, deface, damage or injure
property not belonging to him or her.
[Ord. #296]
No person who being possessed of a dwelling
house or other building, or part thereof, held for any term of years
or other less term, or at will, or held over after the termination
of any tenancy, shall, without proper licensing as provided by law:
[Ord. #296]
No person shall willfully cast, shoot or throw
anything at, against, or into any vehicle, railroad car, airplane
or other facility of transportation nor shall any person willfully
place any stick, stone or other substance upon any railroad track
with intent to injure any car passing thereon, or the passengers therein.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall willfully place or throw or
suffer or permit the depositing of any stone, sticks, glass, snow
or ice or any hard, dangerous or offensive substance upon any street
or other public thoroughfare; nor shall any person willfully throw
any such object or substance at, upon or against any person, vehicle
of transportation, building or other structure.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall negligently or willfully obstruct
any street or public place with any kind of vehicle or vehicles or
with box or boxes, lumber, wood or any other thing without a permit
issued as provided by law.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall willfully:
a.
Mutilate or remove any notice; or damage, destroy
or remove any warning sign or signal; or remove any barricade placed
or posted on any street in connection with or relating to the closing
of such street;
b.
Drive any vehicle over or upon the closed portion
of any street; or
c.
Violate any rule or regulation for the use of any
street.
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No person shall throw, drop, dump on or tow
to, or otherwise place on open fields or other private property without
first obtaining the written permission of the owner or person in possession
of such property, any junk, paper, bottles, trash, garbage, refuse
or debris of any nature.
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Any person violating any provision of this subsection 3-5.18 shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine not less than $100 and not exceeding $1,000.
[Ord. #296; Ord. #837; Ord. #863] |
[Ord. #863]
No person shall throw, drop, discard, dump or
otherwise place any junk, paper, bottles, trash, garbage, refuse or
debris of any nature upon a street or other public lands.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall operate or cause to be operated,
or shall attempt to operate or cause to be operated, any automatic
vending machine, slot machine, coin box, telephone, or other receptacle
designed to receive lawful coin of the United States of America, by
means of a slug or any false, counterfeited, mutilated, sweated or
foreign coin, or by any means, method, trick or device not lawfully
authorized by the owner, lessee, or licensee of such machine, coin
box, telephone or receptacle, and no person shall take, obtain or
receive from or in connection with any such automatic vending machine,
coin box telephone or other such receptacle, any goods, wares, merchandise,
gas electric current, article of value, or the use of enjoyment thereof,
without depositing in and surrendering to such machine, coin box,
telephone or receptacle lawful coin of the United States of America
to the amount required therefor by the owner, lessee, or licensee
of such machine, coin box, telephone or receptacle.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall conduct himself or herself in
or about the Township having concealed upon him or her any picklock,
key, crow, jack, bit or other implement with an intent to break and
enter or unlawfully enter without breaking into any building or shall
have upon him or her any pistol, hanger, cutlass, bludgeon or other
offensive or dangerous weapon, nor shall any person be apprehended
having upon him or her, whether concealed or not, any of the foregoing
articles or things with the intent of committing any unlawful act,
nor shall any person be found in or near any dwelling house, warehouse,
stable, barn, coachhouse, garage, smoke house or any place of public
resort or assemblage with intent to steal any goods or chattels. This
section shall not apply to law officers and other persons duly authorized
under certain statutes of this state to carry proper weapons of defense.
Possession of any of the foregoing articles on public thoroughfares
shall be prima facie evidence of intent.
[Ord. #296]
No person owning, keeping or having the management
or control of any public dance hall where alcoholic beverages are
sold, or any tavern, whether licensed as such or not, or any agent
or servant of a person, shall admit thereto or permit or suffer to
be or remain therein any child under the age of 16 years unaccompanied
by a parent, guardian or adult friend.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall, by word, act or other means,
knowingly give or cause to be given a false fire alarm or false police
alarm.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall fail to relinquish a telephone
party line, consisting of a subscriber line telephone circuit with
two or more main telephone stations connected therewith, each having
a distinctive ring or telephone number, after he has been requested
to do so to permit another to place a call, in an emergency in which
property or human life are in jeopardy and the prompt summoning of
aid is essential, to a Fire or Police Department or for medical aid
or ambulance service, unless the party line at the time of the request
is being used for any other emergency call, and no person shall request
the use of a party line by falsely stating that it is needed for any
of these purposes knowing that statement to be false.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall have in his possession or custody
any illegal lottery slips, books or records pertaining to an illegal
lottery, nor shall any person have in his possession or have in his
automobile in his custody any ticket or tickets, slip or slips, paper,
document or memoranda in any way pertaining to the business of a number
game. "Number game" as used in this section means any betting on any
number or numbers on or according to any plan or method whatsoever.
Persons employed by or agents of the New Jersey State lottery are
exempted from the prohibitions of this section.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall knowingly remove, deface or
alter any notice posted pursuant to law and forbidding trespassing.
Any person violating this subsection shall be punished by a fine of
not more than $50 or by imprisonment for not more than 30 days, or
both.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall discard or abandon in any public
or private place accessible to children, whether or not children are
trespassers, any refrigerator or icebox with an attached lid or door
which may be opened and fastened shut by means of an attached latch,
or being the owner, lessee or manager of such place, shall knowingly
permit abandoned or discarded refrigerator, icebox or chest to remain
there in such condition. Any person violating this section shall be
punished by a fine of not more than $50 or by imprisonment in the
county jail for not more than five days, or both.
[Ord. #296]
All acts constituting lewd, immoral or indecent
conduct, unlawful destruction of property, willful injuries to or
unlawful interference with persons, hazards to the public health and
breaches or disturbances of the peace not expressly hereinbefore mentioned
are prohibited.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall trespass on any land, after
being forbidden to so trespass by the owner, occupant, lessee or licensee
thereof, or after public notice on the part of the owner, occupant,
lessee or licensee forbidding such trespassing, which notice has been
conspicuously posted adjacent to the highway bounding on such lands
or adjacent to a usual entryway thereof. Neither shall any trespasser
on private property surreptitiously or sneakingly invade the privacy
of another by peering through the windows or other openings of dwelling
places thereon.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall, in or about the Township, play
for money or other valuable thing at cards, dice or other game, with
one or more dice or with any other instrument, engine or device in
the nature of dice, having one or more figures or numbers, or at billiards,
pool, tennis, bowls or shuffleboard, on A.B.C. or E.O. table, or other
tables, or at faro bank, or other bank of a like nature by whatever
name known, or with any slot machine or device in the nature of a
slot machine or with any other instrument, engine, apparatus or device
having one or more figures or numbers thereon.
[Ord. #296; Ord. #1582, 9-24-2002, amended;
Ord. #2394, 7-10-2018, amended]
No person shall have set off any bomb, firecracker, torpedo,
aerial-type firework device or other fireworks, or discharge any gun,
pistol, cannon or other firearm or explosive in and about any public
or private place within the Township without the written permit of
the Township Committee, provided that this section shall not apply
to any peace officer while in the performance of his duty or to any
person lawfully engaged in hunting game, or except as authorized by
resolution of the Township Committee for purposes of wildlife management
with properly licensed firearms, within the Township limits. The use
of sparkling devices and novelty fireworks as defined in N.J.S.A.
21:2-2, exploding or nonexploding incendiary firework devices, toy
pistols, toy canes, toy guns, or other devices in which paper or plastic
caps of explosive compound are used shall not be used on public lands
within the Township without the written permit of the Township Committee
and under such conditions as deemed appropriate by the Township Committee.
[Ord. #1154]
a.
Operation on certain sidewalks/business districts
prohibited. No person shall operate or cause to be operated skateboards
or in-line skates on the sidewalks or parking areas within the following
streets and business areas of the Township of Bernards:
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Name of Street/Business Area
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Location
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Downtown Basking Ridge Business District
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South Finley Avenue (both sides), from Lewis
Street to Oak Street
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Henry Street (both sides), from Rankin Avenue
to South Maple Avenue
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Brownlee Place (both sides), from Henry Street
to West Oak Street
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Ridge Pharmacy
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Between South Finley Avenue, Henry Street, South
Maple Avenue and Lewis Street
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Bernards Township Library
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Between South Maple Avenue, East Oak Street
and Lindbergh Lane
| |
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Lyons Mall
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South Finley Avenue and Lyons Road
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b.
Operation on recreational courts. No person shall
operate or cause to be operated any skateboards or in-line skates
on any platform tennis court, basketball court or tennis court which
is the property of Bernards Township.
c.
Violations and penalties. Any police officer who shall
observe any person using, operating or riding a skateboard or in-line
skates in violation of this subsection shall seize such skateboard
or in-line skates and shall proceed as follows:
1.
First and second offense. Such skateboard/in-line
skates shall be released to such person, or to the parent or guardian
in a case where such person is a minor, only after a fourteen-day
waiting period and upon issuance of a warning as to the effect of
this subsection.
2.
Third offense. Such skateboard/in-line skates shall
be released to such person, or the parent or guardian in a case where
such person is a minor, only after a fourteen-day waiting period and,
upon conviction, be punished by a fine not to exceed $50.
[Ordinance #1361, 6-15-1999, added]
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged
an apparatus commonly known as a "paintball gun or device" in and
about any public property. Any discharge of a paintball gun or device
in or about a private property within the Township shall be performed
only with the consent of the property owner and in a manner as to
ensure that the paintball is confined to the limits of the private
property where discharged.
