[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council
of the Borough of Chesilhurst 3-14-1968 by Ord. No. 68-1. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
The following definitions shall apply in the
interpretation and enforcement of this chapter:
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company, or organization of any kind.
Any real property within the Borough which is not a street
or highway.
The entire width between the boundary lines of every way
publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the
public for purposes of vehicular travel.
A machine propelled by power other than human power designed
to travel along the ground by use of wheels, treads, runners, or slides
and transport, persons or property or poll machinery and shall include,
without limitation, automobile, truck, trailer, motorcycle, tractor,
buggy and wagon.
No person shall abandon any vehicle within the
Borough, and no person shall leave any vehicle at any place within
the Borough for such time and under such circumstances as to cause
such vehicle reasonably to appear to have been abandoned.
No person shall leave any partially dismantled,
nonoperating, wrecked, or junked vehicle on any street or highway
within the Borough.
No person in charge or control of any property
within the Borough, whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee, or
otherwise, shall allow any partially dismantled, nonoperating, wrecked,
junked, or discarded vehicle to remain on such property longer than
72 hours; and no person shall leave any such vehicle on any property
within the Borough for a longer time than 72 hours; except that this
chapter shall not apply with regard to a vehicle in an enclosed building;
a vehicle on the premises of a business enterprise operated in a lawful
place and manner, when necessary to the operation of such business
enterprise; or a vehicle in an appropriate storage place or depository
maintained in a lawful place and manner by the Borough.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park
any vehicle or to allow any vehicle to remain parked on any public
street or highway in the Borough during any snow fall which leaves
an accumulation of snow amounting to three inches or more.
The Chief of Police or any member of his Department
designated by him is hereby authorized to remove or have removed any
vehicle left at any place within the Borough which reasonably appears
to be in violation of this chapter or lost, stolen, or unclaimed.
Such vehicle shall be impounded until lawfully claimed or disposed
of in accordance with the provisions of N.J.S.A. 39:10-A-1 et seq.
Any person violating any of the provisions of
this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction
thereof, shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding $2,000, imprisonment
for a period not exceeding 90 days and/or a period of community service
not exceeding 90 days. Each day such violation is committed or permitted
to continue shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punishable
as such hereunder.
