[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Chesterfield 10-8-1973
as Ord. No. 1973-4. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Includes but is not expressly limited to minibikes, motor scooters,
go-carts, swamp buggies and snowmobiles and any other motor-driven vehicle
not capable of being registered under Title 39, Motor Vehicles and Traffic
Regulation, of the New Jersey Statutes, as amended, and motorcycles capable
of being registered under Title 39 aforesaid but not registered, except such
vehicles as in such Title which are expressly exempted from registration.
[Amended 5-28-1998 by Ord. No. 1998-11]
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or permit and suffer
to be operated or to maintain or permit and suffer to be maintained a motor-driven
vehicle, as defined herein, within the Township of Chesterfield, under the
following circumstances:
A.
On private property of another without the express prior
written consent of the owner and the occupant of said property. Where such
express prior written consent has been obtained, the operator shall keep the
same on his person, available for immediate display, during the period of
such operation.
B.
On any public grounds or property.
C.
In such manner as to create loud, unnecessary or unusual
noise so as to disturb or interfere with the peace and quiet of other persons.
To this end, no person shall operate a motor-driven vehicle before the hour
of 8:00 a.m., prevailing time, and after sunset.
D.
Operating a vehicle in the township without due caution
and circumspection or in any other manner so as to endanger, or be likely
to endanger, a person or property; or maintaining a vehicle with faulty or
unlawful equipment.
E.
Each motor-driven vehicle shall at all times be equipped
with a muffler, in good working order, and no person shall use a muffler cutout,
bypass or similar device.
It shall be rebuttably presumed that any person under the age of 18
years who operates a motor-driven vehicle in violation of the terms of this
chapter and who resides with his or her parent(s), guardian(s) or other person(s)
having custody of said person is operating said motor-driven vehicle with
the sufferance and permission of said parent(s), guardian(s) or other person(s)
having custody.
Any person under the age of 18 years who shall violate any of the provisions
of this chapter shall be deemed to be a juvenile delinquent and shall be proceeded
against as such.
Any person of the age of 18 years or over who shall violate any of the
provisions of this chapter shall, upon the conviction thereof, be punished
by a fine not to exceed $500 or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term
not exceeding 90 days, or both.
